Welcome to the Conversations that Matter Podcast. I'm your host Sean Harris to

finish hopefully this week our study that we begin in 2022 engaging with

Keller. It's a book that was published in 2013 by a number of

Presbyterian theologians and pastors. The subtitle is Thinking Through the

theology of an influential Evangelical and for those who have been with me on this journey this side project if you will I think it's been very enlightening it's been very educational

it's been very helpful for those of you who are going to churches where Keller's very appreciated and perhaps his material is used and you haven't known what to say you know there's something wrong

There's something that doesn't sit well with you but now you have some words to

put with that and some citations and for those who are patrons of course you have

access to the PowerPoint and at this point I think we're up to what almost 70 slides let's see

Yeah 72 slides and more coming because we still have one more chapter but we've already gone through last year

Keller's doctrine of Sin, his understanding of hell

and the Trinity and the Church's mission, his Hermonutic, and now we're going to talk about

Theistic evolution. And of course this is adding to material I've already put out there on

Tim Keller. I did a very extensive deep dive into Keller's political beliefs and

his social justice ideas and I think

you could make the argument that's one of the big keys to understanding him but I think

you could even take a step back and say you know there's something maybe more basic

and that's what I've been realizing as I've been going over this book engaging with Keller

that it's not just that Keller's a social justice warrior or that he's a new left guy from the 60s who never really

changed his political beliefs and his jamming Christianity into that it's not

that as much as perhaps it is this. Tim Keller is very shrewd and he looks at the world that he inhabits, he lives in New York City,

and he sees opposition to Christianity.

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