Jesus Christ - Jesus the King: understanding the life and death of the Son of God

Praise for Jesus the King

In discussing the identity of Jesus, the author describes him as a man both deeply embedded within his culture and times while also living counter to them in many ways.... The author describes a man aware of his upcoming sacrifice, and indeed, a man in continual sacrifice, as he had descended from heaven to live on earth. Captivating reading from a Christian perspective.

Kirkus Reviews

Keller engages the reader with astute pastoral application, littered with excellent sermon illustrations.... [ Jesus the King ] finds Keller in familiar territory: producing another great book, leaving readers from atheist to Christian grappling with the nature and implications of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Michael Johnson, DesiringGod.org

This is the book where Tim Keller hits his stride as an author.... Keller directs readers gazes toward the cross and will not allow them to look away.

Collin Hansen, The Gospel Coalition

Praise for Generous Justice

Keller shows us how a... spiritone of generosity coupled with justicecan thoroughly alter not only a person but, ultimately, society as a whole.... Many gems are to be mined from Generous Justice .

The Washington Times

Generous Justice is the best book Ive ever read about putting Christian faith into action.... Were all Christians to respond to Kellers understanding of Biblically based justice, it wouldnt simply result in more social programs, food and shelter and health care for the needy. It would result in a world defined by shalom, a comprehensive peace, a world in which human beings flourish.

Beliefnet

This is the most biblically informed and intellectually careful (read the footnotes!) social justice book I know of. Justice skeptics and justice proponents alike will learn from Generous Justice .

Kevin DeYoung, The Gospel Coalition

A great book... Tim Keller cuts through the highly charged rhetoric and presents a clear, biblical call for the church to do justice.

EFCAToday.org

[Keller] offers a persuasive plea for evangelicals to embrace social justice efforts.... Emergent Christians as well as others serious about their faith and eager for a balanced and authoritative voice on the subject will appreciate this book.

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Counterfeit Gods

Offers much insight for shepherding local churches.

Christianity Today magazine

Counterfeit Gods is easily one of the best books Ive read this year.

Tim Challies

Smashes the arrogant conclusion that violation of the first commandment was merely an ancient problem. Combining biblical theology with experienced surgery on the soul over the years in modern Manhattan... Kellers heart diagnostics will leave us neither ignorant nor unmoved.

David B. Garner, associate professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary

Kellers wisdom and biblical understanding, served up in clear, engaging writing, can help both Christians and non-Christians to identify the idols in our own hearts and replace empty promises with hope in Christ.

World magazine

Praise for The Prodigal God

Keller seizes a great truth and comes at it from an angle and with language that help us see it in new ways.

John Piper, Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church

The insight that Tim Keller has about the two individuals in the story and the heart of the God who loves them both... it is not much of an overstatement to say I read that and God wrecked me afresh.

Bill Hybels, Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church

Religious people will findperhaps for the first timeinsights into themselves and the love of God that just might shatter any outward shell of mere religiosity on which they are depending and draw them into the presence of real light, glory, and salvationinto the presence of Jesus Christ, the Prodigal God Himself.

Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship

Praise for The Reason for God

Fifty years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.

Christianity Today magazine

Unlike most suburban megachurches, much of Redeemer is remarkably traditional. What is not traditional is Dr. Kellers skill in speaking the language of his urbane audience.... it is easy to understand his appeal.

The New York Times

The most successful Christian evangelist in [New York City]... With intellectual, brimstone-free sermons that manage to cite Woody Allen alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Keller draws some five thousand young followers every Sunday. Church leaders see him as a model of how to evangelize urban centers across the country, and Keller has helped plant fifty gospel-based Christian churches around New York plus another fifty from San Francisco to London.

New York magazine

Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology, and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God.... The Reason for God should serve both as a testimony of the authors encyclopedic learning and as a compelling overview of the current debate on faith for those who doubt and for those who want to reevaluate what they believe and why.

Publishers Weekly

Further praise for Timothy Keller

Tim Kellers ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

Billy Graham

Rev. Tim Keller [is] a Manhattan institution, one of those open urban secrets, like your favorite dim sum place, with a following so ardent and so fast-growing that he has never thought to advertise.

Newsweek

Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology, and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God. Written for skeptics and the believers who love them, the book draws on the authors encounters as founding pastor of New Yorks booming Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Drawing on sources as diverse as nineteenth-century author Robert Louis Stevenson and contemporary New Testament theologian N. T. Wright, Keller attempts to deconstruct everyone he finds in his way, from the evolutionary psychologist Richard Dawkins to popular author Dan Brown.... It should serve both as testimony to the authors encyclopedic learning and as a compelling overview of the current debate on faith for those who doubt and for those who want to reevaluate what they believe, and why.

Publishers Weekly

As founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, Keller has heard many people question religious beliefs and ask questions like, How can there be one true religion? or How can a loving God allow suffering? In his new book... Keller addresses these and other questions and gives his reasons for believing in God unconditionally. Using literature, philosophy, and pop culture, the author gives convincing reasons for a strong belief in God. It is refreshing to read a book that presents a religious view without being overly critical of the secular side presented in other books. An excellent conversation starter, this book presents a valid, well-written, and well-researched argument.

Library Journal

Its a provocative premise, in pursuit of which Kellerknown for drawing cosmopolitan urbanites to his Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattantakes on nonbelievers from evolutionary biologists to the recent rash of atheist authors.

The Boston Globe

B OOKS BY T IMOTHY K ELLER

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism