Princeton Theological Seminary Rescinds Award to be Given to Tim Keller
Dr. Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, was slated to give a lecture on British theologian and missiologist Lesslie Newbigin and receive the Abraham Kuyper Award for Theology and Public Life at Princeton Seminary. Today, Princeton Seminary President Craig Barnes announced that the school would not present the award to Keller, but would still invite him to give a lecture.
In an email to the Seminary community Barnes said the decision reflected a concern that presenting Keller with the award would be confused with an endorsement of the Presbyterian Church in America’s teaching that the office of elder is limited to men. Princeton Seminary is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), which is committed to ordaining women and LBGTQ people into the ministry....