Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity, Keller uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.
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Eye Opening Look at Luke 15 The Prodigal God is a short but powerful exposition of the major themes of Luke 15, centering particularly on the parable of the two sons. Keller, drawing his ideas from a sermon by Edmund Clowney which Keller says was "life-changing", writes of the two sons as two who were pictures of the two types of people in the crowd with Jesus on this occasion. On the one hand, the tax collectors and sinners were seen in the younger son, who sought self-salvation through self-discovery and experience. Then there were... more info
Prodigal Grace of God Excellent book. Small enough to read in one evening. After I finished my wife read it without setting it down. She said is was the best book she ever read. For her it made clear some of the things we personally have dealt with in our family and community. The older brother in the parable is the main focus and that which in today's churches seem to get a free pass. Highly recommended! In my opinion Keller's theology is sound and the book is easily read and understood by those without a degree in theology or... more info
Correct diagnosis on a major problem with the church. Timothy Keller, in relating the story of the two sons, unintentionally (?) addresses another issue altogether. Many books have been written recently about the decline of the church in North America. Churches are filled with elder-brother types who have never been transformed into the likeness of Christ. All of their "good works" are done in the church, but the rest of their lives are no different from that of their secular neighbors. Church becomes nothing more than a good old boys' club where "sinners" are... more info
The Prodigal God: A must read! Excellent! This short volume (139 pages) is about, as the subtitle says, Recovering t he Heart of the Christian Faith. It's a look at the parable of the Two Lost Brothers and their Prodigal Father, commonly called The Parable of The Prodigal Son. Both sons were lost, with the older son in a more dangerous lost position than his younger brother (please read the book to see why!) Once Keller has developed the younger brother-type and the older brother-type, they both "portray the two basic ways people try... more info
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