Young earth creationist Ken Ham has accused Tim Keller of “lukewarmness” and theological “compromising” following the announcement of a center for apologetics named after Keller, an initiative Ham argued won’t be effective “until there’s a new reformation to call church leaders…back to the authority of the Word of God.”
Last week, The Gospel Coalition announced the launch of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. The center features 26 fellows to produce content centered on evangelism and cultural apologetics in a “post-Christendom milieu.”
“We now live in a post-Christendom culture,” explained Keller, one of the founders of The Gospel Coalition, in a promotional video. “And now you’re in, how do you win people to Christ in a post-Christendom era? And the church does not have any idea how to do it.”
Keller continued, “The way the Keller Center is seeking to address this is that we want to raise up a new generation of younger thinkers and ministers and leaders who are able to do evangelism and cultural apologetics in a post-Christendom situation.”