Timothy Keller, an evangelical minister who cultivated a national following with a theology that separated faith from party politics and centered his vision of conservative Christianity in the hubbub of modern life, died May 19 in New York. He was 72.
His death was announced in an email by Redeemer Churches and Ministries, a network of organizations established by Dr. Keller. He was diagnosed in 2020 with pancreatic cancer and had previously been treated for thyroid cancer.
Dr. Keller won the admiration of many evangelicals, who credited him with demonstrating their movement’s potential far beyond the Bible Belt. He also insisted that Christians commit themselves to racial equality, service to the needy and the rectification of a justice system that favors the rich. His combination of views — some archconservative and others more in line with liberal thinking — was consistent with his vision of Christianity but, to his frustration, often at odds with the binary world of contemporary politics.
in 2011. “People are nervous about you, they feel like you’re bigoted. And so actually right now if you are a graduate of Harvard, Yale or Princeton, and you’ve got your MBA, and you’re working on Wall Street, or being a downtown artist or something like that, and if you are an orthodox Christian, that’s very, very subversive. It’s very transgressive.”Especially after the rise of Donald Trump, Dr. Keller was an outspoken critic of the politicization of faith.
There he met his future wife, Kathy Kristy, whom he married in 1975, and who worked closely with him in his ministry. Besides his wife, survivors include three sons, Jonathan Keller, Michael Keller and David Keller; a sister; and seven grandchildren. At the outset, the congregation that became Redeemer Presbyterian met in a private living room. The group grew steadily and began renting increasingly larger churches and auditoriums for weekly services. The numbers surged after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Dr. Keller picked up more worshipers amid the Great Recession later that decade.
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