![]() Soon after college Keller was called to serve as a local minister with all the new Marxist ideology planted in his mind. The primary goal of the Frankfurt School was to translate Marxism into cultural terms, and so provide the ideas for a new political theory of revolution based on culture, and on the harnessing of new oppressed groups’. These intellectuals, repelled by Leninist call to violent revolution, sought other pathways to change society. ‘The school initially consisted of dissident Marxists, who were concerned that some of the prophecies of Karl Marx regarding the eventual collapse of capitalism and the triumph of a classless socialist proletariat were not coming to pass. The school known as the Frankfurt School which Keller refers to was a heavy Marxist institute that originated among a group of German intellectuals in the 1920s. Then he added “How could I turn back to the kind of orthodox Christianity that supported segregation in the South and apartheid in South Africa?” The social activism was particularly attractive, and the critique of American bourgeoisie society was compelling”. In his book he explains: “In 1968, this was heady stuff. When Keller was a student in college, he said in one of his books (it was The Reason for God I believe) to have been ‘heavily influenced by the neo-Marxist critical theory of the Frankfurt School’. First we need to understand that though Keller is a prominent name and bestselling author in Evangelical circles and even in ‘reformed’ circles, that he was influenced by neo Marxists teaching. As Pastor MacArthur said, it is the language of law and not gospel.Īnd it seems quite clearly, that one of the great promoters of this ‘social justice’ (SJW) movement is Timothy Keller, author of ‘Generous Justice’ and ‘The Reason for God’. It is indeed a dangerous thing to add to the Gospel that which God has not commanded for men to be saved from. ![]() He goes on to mention that from all the battles which he has fought, this is the most dangerous of all. They have a true spiritual unity in Christ, which they seem to disdain in favor of fleshly factions”. It is a startling irony that believers from different ethnic groups, now one in Christ, have chosen to divide over ethnicity. It’s the language of law, not gospel-and worse, it mirrors the jargon of worldly politics, not the message of Christ. Their rhetoric certainly points a different direction, demanding repentance and reparations from one ethnic group for the sins of its ancestors against another. “The evangelicals who are saying the most and talking the loudest these days about what’s referred to as “social justice” seem to have a very different perspective. Pastor John MacArthur wrote the following: This interwovenness is what the Bible calls shalom, or harmonious peace.Evangelicalism has found a new obsession on social justice which has directed many faithful pastors and leaders away from the Biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ. Just as rightly related physical elements form a cosmos or a tapestry, so rightly related human beings form a community. God created all things to be in a beautiful, harmonious, interdependent, knitted, webbed relationship to one another. Only then do you get a fabric that is beautiful and strong, that covers, fits, holds, shelters, and delights. Each thread must go over, under, around, and through the others at thousands of points. The threads must be rightly and intimately related to one another in literally a million ways. If you throw thousands of pieces of thread onto a table, no fabric results. Even more than the architectural image, the fabric metaphor conveys the importance of relationship. “Woven cloth consists of innumerable threads interlaced with one another. “He alone can make our fearful, selfish hearts generous…His spirit makes us feel that we have plenty for ourselves, and only then we will be generous to others.”
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