Tim Keller on Reformed Resurgence
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, is the special guest for this conversation. Along with Collin, Justin, and Kevin, Tim Keller discusses the Reformed movement itself, The Gospel Coalition, and what comes next in Evangelicalism. Along the way you’ll hear advice for evangelizing, warnings about Christian celebrity, and of course book recommendations for pastors and leaders.
Life and Books and Everything is sponsored by Crossway, publisher of the ShortStudies in Systematic Theology Series, edited by Graham A. Cole and Oren R. Martin.
The Short Studies in Systematic Theology Series is designed to equip the church to faithfully understand, love, teach, and apply what God has revealed in Scripture about a variety of theological topics. The series gives valuable advice on applying spiritual gifts in the preaching and evangelism ministry.
Timestamps:
Promoting, Celebrating, & Articulating Systematic Theology [0:00 – 1:30]
Tim Keller Fighting Sin Not Cancer [1:30 – 17:03]
Top Book Recommendations for Forming Pastors and Leaders [17:03 – 21:37]
Tim Keller’s Other Spiritual Gifts [21:37 – 27:13]
British Evangelicalism [27:13 – 34:20]
Reading at a Rural Church; Eating in a Big City [34:20 – 39:41]
Reformed Resurgence: The Young, Restless, & Reformed Movement [39:41 – 51:06]
Evangelical Celebrities [51:06 – 54:33]
How to Define Evangelicalism: Models vs. Institutions [54:33 – 1:00:34]
More About the Pastor Celebrity Experience [1:00:34 – 1:10:20]
Post-Movement Evangelistic Strategies [1:10:20 – 1:12:25]
Encouragement [1:12:25 – 1:15:20]
Books and Everything:
Dynamics of Spiritual Life, by Richard F. Lovelace
Evangelism Through the Local Church, by Michael Green
Evangelism in the Early Church, by Michael Green
Between Faith and Criticism, by Mark Noll
Reformed Resurgence: The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism, by Brad Vermurlen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to life and books and everything. I'm Kevin D. Young and you're not. I'm Kevin, |
| 0:18.4 | and I'm joined with Justin and Colin, and we have a special guest. |
| 0:24.2 | I know all of our guests are special, but we do have a great guest with us, and I'll introduce |
| 0:29.6 | him in just a moment. |
| 0:30.6 | First, I want to thank, again, Crossway for sponsoring Life and Books and Everything. |
| 0:36.6 | I want to highlight their short studies and systematic theology series, |
| 0:41.7 | series edited by Graham Cole and Oren Martin. |
| 0:44.9 | Crossway, I love this about Crossway, |
| 0:48.8 | and not they're saying this because Justin's here, |
| 0:50.7 | but they have taken such an interest in promoting, celebrating, |
| 0:56.7 | articulating systematic theology. |
| 0:59.2 | You see this from the ESV study Bible to a lot of standalone monographs that they've published, |
| 1:04.5 | to larger whole systematic theologies. |
| 1:07.3 | And then this short series is great. |
| 1:09.6 | We had Scott Swain on a couple months ago to talk about his book on the Trinity. |
| 1:14.6 | Graham Cole has one on Faithful Theology. The new one I just got. I know Justin's reading it through as well. Gerald Bray's attributes of God. |
| 1:22.4 | And there are more coming in the months ahead. So that is a very good series. Thank you to Crossway. |
| 1:31.1 | Our guest today is the Reverend, Dr. Mr. Friend, Tim Keller. Tim, we are so glad to have you on the show. |
| 1:43.5 | Tim probably needs a little introduction, was the pastor |
| 1:47.1 | for many years of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and some such title still for |
| 1:55.0 | Redeemer City to City or some Grand Puba of, and author of many, many influential excellent books dealing with apologetics, preaching prayer, |
| 2:06.8 | the Psalms. |
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