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Tim Keller
Founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian, New York. Known for apologetics addressed to urban skeptics and for a notably winsome register.
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Salvation4 POSITIONS
Forensic
Forensic imputation, and characteristically pressed as the answer to both moralism and irreligion — the elder-brother and younger-brother problem in Luke 15.
Church & Sacraments3 POSITIONS
Infants included
Infant baptism as a covenant sign, per Presbyterian confessional standards — the one locus where he differs from most of the contemporary figures here.
Open in principle
Open in principle, cautious in practice.
Last Things2 POSITIONS
Eternal conscious punishment
Affirmed the reality of hell and wrote in defense of it, while framing it in terms of freely chosen self-exclusion from God — a presentation some critics judged to soften the traditional account.
THEIR TEXTSMatthew 25:46