This would be best for the church and best for his legacy.įinally, in this age of growing divergence between progressive and conservative schools within Reformed denominations, please join with me in praying for the unity of the church-a unity based on our common Head and his eternal truth. Rather, I pray that Dr Keller would retract the aspects of his teaching that are identified in the chapters of this book. It is my hope that there will be no need for a third edition. Nonetheless, the need to clarify the truth for Christ’s flock is unequivocal and so we have been urged to publish this second edition. The contributors of this book do not relish this kind of work and would much prefer to devote ourselves to purely positive pursuits. This being the case, the need for this book unfortunately remains. On the other hand, the resulting teaching in his writings is predictably at variance with Scripture on a number of important points. On one hand, this strategy in the hands of such a highly gifted man means that his writings have become among the most popular and influential in Christendom. He frankly acknowledges that he has, at least in the cases of the doctrines of creation, sin and hell, come to an alternative rendering with the objective of making it less offensive. “Dr Keller is committed to a culturally-contextualized version of the Christian faith designed to attract urban intellectuals.
These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could.”Įngaging with Keller: Thinking Through the Theology of an Influential Evangelical By William H. What follows is a story of what she describes as a ‘train wreck’ at the hand of. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down–the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was, an idea that flew in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department’s curriculum. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world…In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. “Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert By Rosaria Butterfield