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Tim Keller

Does God privilege weak outsiders over powerful insiders? A response to Tim Keller

January 1, 2019 by Randal

Let’s ring in the new year with a New Year’s Day tweet from Tim Keller: A salvation earned by good works and moral effort would favor the more able, competent, accomplished and privileged. But salvation by sheer grace favors the failed, the outsiders, the weak, because it goes only to those who know salvation must […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: salvation, scandal of particularity, Tim Keller

The Reason for Hell: a critical engagement with Timothy Keller (Part 1)

March 30, 2013 by Randal

The other day I finally purchased Timothy Keller’s bestselling 2008 book The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (New York: Riverhead). Why the long delay? Simple: it took that long to find a copy for 2 bucks at Goodwill and folks, I am cheap. I’m also cynical when it comes to bestselling […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, hell, The Reason for God, theodicy, Tim Keller

A few shades the other side of silly: Jerry Shepherd defends Tim Keller

October 28, 2012 by Randal

In “Is the light of the cross brightened by the flickering flames of hell? ” I critiqued a portion of an essay by Tim Keller defending hell as eternal conscious torment which presented the following thesis: “The doctrine of hell is important because it is the only way to know how much he loved us […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, eternal conscious torment, hell, Jerry Shepherd, Tim Keller

Is the light of the cross brightened by the flickering flames of hell?

October 25, 2012 by Randal

A reader sent me the following excerpt from an article by Tim Keller on the doctrine of hell and asked me to comment. (The full article is available here.) So here’s the excerpt with my comments to follow: 4. The doctrine of hell is important because it is the only way to know how much […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, cross, hell, Jesus Christ, Tim Keller

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