What Exactly Is the “Toxic” Effect of Tim Keller’s Theology?

Mar 28, 2017 by

by Owen Strachan, Patheos:

Many have heard the news that Princeton Seminary offered, then un-offered, Tim Keller the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness. I wrote up a short piece entitled “In Praise of Tim Keller: On Princeton’s Decision” for the Center for Public Theology. In that piece, I quote from a RNS story that cited these words of Carol Howard Merritt on Keller and his theology:

“In these difficult days, when our president says that women’s genitalia is up for grabs by any man with power and influence, I hoped that my denomination would stand up for women, loud and clear … Instead we are honoring and celebrating a man who has championed toxic theology for decades.”

I’ve already made a brief case for why Keller does in fact deserve the Kuyper Prize, so I won’t do that here. You can read more of my response to Merritt if you like. Let’s think about this carefully: what exactly is the effect of Keller’s “toxic theology”?

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