Tim Keller

Tim Keller on Catechesis for a Secular Age, Part II: A Moral Ecology

Tim Keller on Catechesis for a Secular Age, Part II: A Moral Ecology

More from Tim Keller on the need for a “counter catechesis”: “The amount of time we spend on our phones in a day—the number of images and videos and repetitive slogans we see—makes the most immersive set of practices ever. It engages the imagination with narratives. It makes the influence and consumption of TV (already a concern a generation ago) look tiny by comparison. Those consuming digital content are being deeply catechized for far more hours in a week and far more effectively than anything the church is doing. It would not be going too far to call it brainwashing of the purportedly benign type seen in George Orwell’s 1984.

Tim Keller on Catechesis for a Secular Age, Part I: Counter Catechesis

Tim Keller on Catechesis for a Secular Age, Part I: Counter Catechesis

Tim Keller on the need for a counter-catechesis today: “The problem is that, as indispensable as the best of the catechisms are still (Heidelberg, Westminster, and Luther’s Short and Large), they are insufficient. The main alternative to being a Protestant Christian is now some form of Western secularism. The secular age has a very definite catechism of its own, and while our current instructional modes and catechisms may be biblically accurate, they do not present the truth in a way that clearly dismantles secular narratives and undermines secular beliefs.