Tim Keller on Election & predestination
Unconditional — grounded in God's free choice
THE POSITION
Unconditional election, within PCA confessional bounds.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, taken from a machine transcript of a freely published 1992 sermon, and copyright is not what is stopping the rest. Nine of the other ten loci have had no primary-source pass at all. The tenth, scripture-authority, had one that read three freely published pieces in full and kept no excerpt from them — so what is missing there is a retained sentence, not permission. The books are in copyright, but he preached and published free for decades, and this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright.
4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
18 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian, New York. Known for apologetics addressed to urban skeptics and for a notably winsome register.
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"Tim Keller on Election & predestination", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/keller/election (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/keller/election).