Timothy Keller

His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

Narrated by: Collin Hansen, Timothy Keller, full cast

Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Read by the author.

Timothy Keller takes listeners behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that formed Keller's spiritual life and ministry priorities. This audiobook includes rare audio recordings of Timothy Keller, each representing a key moment or influence in his life.

Millions have read books and listened to sermons by Timothy Keller. But which people and what events shaped his own thinking and spiritual growth? With unfettered access to Keller's personal notes and sermons—as well as exclusive interviews with family members and longtime friends—Collin Hansen gives you unprecedented understanding of one of the 21st century's most influential church leaders.

Spend any time around Timothy Keller and you'll learn what he's reading, what he's learning, what he's seeing. The story of Timothy Keller is the story of his spiritual and intellectual influences, from the woman who taught him how to read the Bible to the professor who taught him to preach Jesus from every text to the philosopher who taught him to see beneath society's surface.

For the first time, Hansen introduces listeners to Keller's early years: the home where he learned to tell stories from the trees, the church where he learned to care for souls, and the city that lifted him to the international fame he never wanted.

You'll discover how to:

• Understand the principles and practices that allowed Keller to synthesize so many different influences in a coherent ministry.
• Take the best of Keller's preaching and teaching to meet emerging challenges in the 21st century.
• Develop your own historical, theological, and cultural perspectives to shape your leadership.

This is the untold story of the people, the books, the lectures, and ultimately the God who formed and shaped the life of Timothy Keller.

Bonus audio includes:

• Tim Keller’s sermon “Truth, Tears, Anger, and Grace,” delivered by Keller following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on September 16, 2001
• The first message Keller delivered for a public conference of The Gospel Coalition in 2007: “Gospel-Centered Ministry”
• The famous sermon “The Girl Nobody Wanted,” Keller’s famous sermon about Jacob’s marriages to Rachel and Leah
• “The Lord and the Word,” an influential 1973 lecture delivered by Edmund Clowney, Keller’s only personal mentor
• The inspiring address delivered by Elisabeth Elliot, “The Glory of God’s Will,” at the 1976 Urbana missions conference attended by Tim and Kathy Keller

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Collin Hansen (P)2023 Zondervan

Keller and his influences

The story of the men and women who shaped Keller both in-person and through their writing and preaching. It is both an engaging biography of the man himself and a wealth of names and books to add to your future reading list.

Phenomenal

Worth every single minute of listening. Wonderful book! Definitely going to listen to it multiple times

Love Tim’s humility and living out 2 Tim. 2:24-25 so we’ll!

Collin, thanks for doing such a great work on this. I really enjoyed listening to you read this book. I wish more authors would read their own books.

Tim has been a great theological hero since 2006-2007 when I first discovered him through a Desiring God conference called “The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World.” Since then I’ve read/listened to many of his books and hundreds of his sermons. I was pleased to discover that Kathy Keller had childhood connections to Penn Hills, PA (my current residence) and Pittsburgh (my hometown).

This was a great read/listen looking forward to the next biography from Collin.

Unique biographical approach with must listen appendices

Unique biographical approach with must listen appendices.

Analysis of Keller’s influences more than his life and ministry, but with many personal notes.

The sermons that serve as appendices are required listening - next up should be an audiobook consisting of thoughtfully curated sermon recordings.

Insightful and helpful

The ability to see influences behind Dr. Keller and Kathy Keller encouraged me to consider my own. May others choose to dig deep into source material and referenced authors as have I.

Very Interesting

I plan on listening again, there is so much information and insight in this book

Encouraging read

This was a well researched and encouraging explanation of the spiritual formation of Tim Keller who has been an important spiritual leader to me and I know many others as well.

Tim Keller found him later, worth listening to

The only drawback to this work is the reader or the narrator there are times he preached way too hard, and too much rather than just read about Tim Keller’s book could’ve been a third of it size other than that, knowing how Tim Keller got where he ended up Was interesting

First Listen Inspiring, Second…

This book has been truly inspiring. I am encouraged in spirit on the faith and diligence of Tim Keller. My second reading will be to make specific notes on next steps.

Excellent.

Tim Keller’s influence for me dates back to 2015 when I read—and so much needed to read!— his beautifully written “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering.” His work on prayer, apologetics, justice, and cultural critique in the Christian life have by God’s grace all had an immense influence in shaping my perspective first on my own heart, but also on what it means to be a redeemed image bearer alive in the contemporary West. Collin Hansen does an outstanding job introducing us to the shaping influences, Christ centered global impact, and (now) beautiful legacy of one of the most important Christian thinkers in recent times. As Hansen alludes to in the epilogue, may it serve as an important foundation for subsequent and perhaps more academic (but hopefully no less Christ centered) biographies. Thank you Collin for this labor of love.