What is Wrong with the World?
What Is Wrong with the World? is not a list of answers - it's an invitation to tell the truth. About what hurts. About what we're still carrying. It's for anyone ready to stop performing and start healing.
Beloved pastor and New York Timesbestselling author Timothy Keller offers a hope-filled answer to the question beneath every devastating headline and personal loss: What is wrong with the world?
Everywhere we look, we see brokenness - wars, cruelty, and heartache. We feel it in the world around us and in our own lives. How did it get to be this way?
In What Is Wrong with the World?, based on a series of teachings given at Redeemer, Keller argues that the only thing that can account for the world's pain and chaos is what the Bible calls sin.
What Is Wrong with the World?is for anyone who:
This hugely hopeful book reveals how sin is not simply a "bad" thing we do but something much more subtle and complex, affecting our relationships, our thinking, and every aspect of our existence.
And once we recognise sin for what it is, can we find the profound, life-transforming answers our souls long for.
Timothy Keller was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He became a Christian at university, was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in America and worked as a pastor for nine years.
He was asked to start Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan in 1989, and under his leadership the church's congregation experienced unprecedented growth from 50 to 5,000 members. His target audience consisted mainly of urban professionals, whom he believed exhibit disproportionate influence over the culture and its ideas.
The 'Influentials' Issue of New York Magazine featured Dr Keller as "the most successful Christian evangelist in the city by recognizing that young professionals and artists are 'disproportionately influential' in creating the country's culture and that you have to meet this coveted demographic on its own terms."
Timothy Keller is renowned for his clear, reasoned approach to Christian apologetics and his book THE REASON FOR GOD: BELIEF IN AN AGE OF SCEPTICISM was named Book of the Year for 2008 by World Magazine.
Timothy Keller died in May 2023. His wife Kathy and sons live in New York City.