Self-promotion alert!
Today Calvinism: A History is available in stores (including on-line sellers). To mark the occasion the good folks at National Review Online (courtesy of John Miller) have posted a podcast interview that John did with me a week or so ago.
And to sustain the Calvinism momentum, the editors of Engaging with Keller have encouraged us contributors to publicize the book’s publication. To that end, an excerpt from my chapter (I don’t have access to the others, really):
. . . Tim Keller would hardly be the first Presbyterian pastor not to follow the conventions or strictures of Presbyterian polity. But his popularity and especially his influence within the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) make his Presbyterian identity worth closer scrutiny. On the one hand, Keller has strong connections to leading figures in the world of young Calvinism through the Gospel Coalition. His presence among this mix of leaders, such as John Piper and D. A. Carson, greatly encourages evangelicals to think of themselves as Reformed even when they do not belong to Reformed churches. On the other hand, Keller’s highly visible parachurch activities and interdenominational cooperation has diminished the influence of Old School Presbyterianism, at least among younger ministers and church planters, within his own denomination, the PCA. In each of these cases Keller’s impoverished ecclesiology, combined with the success of his congregation in New York City, has encouraged many Protestants in the United States to conceive of Reformed Protestantism as something distinct from ecclesiology, an irony to be sure considering that the church government term, Presbyterian, always finds its way into Keller’s biography thanks to the name of his congregation.
Old Life 
This is just unloving. No mention of all the good that Bishop of Manhattan and his followers have done. Pshaw!
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Thanks for making it Kindle accessible, Dr. Hart. The gremlins of the interwebs are clicking some buttons to send mine to my smart phone now.
This looks great, thanks all the more for your labors as author and elder. Hasta luego.
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The cover of the History is very appropriate, but — to mix books — where would Keller’s jazz ensemble set up?
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Chortles, out on the village green (and then the police lock them up for desecrating the Sabbath).
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How any person can say DA Carson, the late Roger Nicole or John Piper are not Reformed while a lesbian minister in the PCUSA is beyond my comprehension simply because of visible membership which has historic ties to a confessional document/institution.
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I’ll go out on a limb (with Machen) and say that the PCUSA is not Reformed. Theological liberalism is a different religion than Christianity.
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Darryl, my copy should then be arriving soon, pre-ordered as a very appropriate Father’s Day gift from my thoughtful daughter! I am looking forward to reading this.
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DG, I propose you change your “About Me” section on Amazon to say
“As if you couldn’t get enough of (All about me)…”
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Joseph, have you heard of 1936? Some Reformed churches didn’t abandon churches but abandoned liberal “Reformed” churches. BTW, the move that institutional membership doesn’t matter is a classic move of liberals.
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Jack, here’s hoping it doesn’t put you to sleep.
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Yale University Press – they publish using a very attractive font. Now what about making an audio book of it? Someone with an equally appealing radio voice, maybe Ken Myers. This would be great for road trips.
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Ken, what are you saying about my voice?
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Your voice would do. And actually Tim Keller’s would too.
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Ken, That may be the only way Keller will read it.
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Darryl,
here’s hoping it doesn’t put you to sleep.
Well if it does, an antidote then – sometimes I wake up in the night and can’t get back to sleep…
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Ooh, yes let TKNY do the audio. He purrs. The cats will like that.
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What stores are carrying this volume?
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And how does TKNY feel about “feline flourishing”?
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CW – And how does TKNY feel about “feline flourishing”?
Erik – He hopes to find a good home for every stray cat in the city.
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Colin, I assume any Reformed seminary bookstore will have it. WSC is closed for some makeovers. Here’s the contact info for WTS.
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Erik, the Turks do just fine without homes for strays.
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WSC is closed for some makeovers.
Taggers from the last graduating class.
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My book came in the mail today. Excellent.
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Finally available at my Canadian online book location, and ordered promptly.
Still not understanding why a store search for D.G. Hart on iTunes leads off with “Santa’s Hot Secrets” for books…
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Kent, at least it wasn’t Santa’s Hot Little Elves”
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For that and other blessings we are truly grateful…
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I had to go to the dictionary on page 132, “coetus.” As in the German Reformed “Philadelphia Coetus.”
It’s a meeting. And it has nothing to do with hot little elves.
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