Listen "Keller’s Formation: Bill Edgar on Francis Schaeffer and L’Abri"
Episode Synopsis
Bill Edgar began his career as professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1989 and retired last year in 2022. But his Westminster roots run even deeper than his 33-year tenure. Edgar’s great-great-grandfather, an elder at First Presbyterian Church in New York City, helped endow Princeton Seminary in 1811. In 1929, Westminster was founded in response to Princeton’s liberal drift. By 2017, Princeton Seminary had drifted so far that the school revoked Tim Keller’s Kuyper Prize over his views on women’s ordination and homosexuality. For more than two centuries, the Edgar family has been wrapped up in the drama of doctrine in Presbyterian seminary education.In this special season of Gospelbound, we’re exploring several key influences that appear in my book Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation. Tim Keller taught at Westminster from 1984 to 1989 and earlier earned his doctor of ministry through the school. Edgar’s career has intersected with Keller’s at numerous points, from Francis Schaeffer to Ed Clowney to Cornelius Van Til and the work of cultural apologetics. We discussed these topics and more in this episode of Gospelbound. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
More episodes of the podcast Gospelbound
3 Threats to Secularism in the West
04/11/2025
Church Could (Literally) Save Your Life
21/10/2025
How To Exit Tech
07/10/2025
Why Everything Never Feels Like Enough
23/09/2025
BONUS: Advice for Apologetics with Wes Huff
14/07/2025
Summer Reading with Melissa Kruger
17/06/2025
Obergefell: 10 Years Later
10/06/2025
How Charisma Reveals Our Idols
03/06/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.