The printed edition this companion is keyed to
This study companion follows the section structure of the widely available Dutton hardcover/trade edition of Timothy Keller's The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism:
- Title: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
- Author: Timothy Keller (1950–2023)
- Publisher: Dutton (Penguin Group), New York
- First published: 2008
- ISBN: 978-0-525-95049-3 (also issued as 0-525-95049-4)
- Pages: approximately 293 pages of main text plus front matter (first edition)
- Subject: Christian apologetics · Christianity and atheism · Faith and doubt
- Internet Archive record: reasonforgodbeli0000kell (Internet Archive Books / print-disabled collection). The specific scanned copy originally supplied for this project is catalogued under the related identifier reasonforgodbeli0000kell_y7b0.
Section titles and their order on this site (Introduction; Part One, chapters 1–7; an Intermission; Part Two, chapters 8–14; and the Epilogue, “Where Do We Go from Here?”) follow the publisher's own table of contents, cross-checked against the Library of Congress cataloguing-in-publication record for this edition. We have not verified page ranges for individual chapters against a physical copy, so page numbers are intentionally not stated on section pages.
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What you are reading instead is an original UECF.NET Web Book / Study Companion: for each section we provide the published section title, an original UECF.NET summary of the argument (written from general, publicly available knowledge of the book's content and structure — scholarly reviews, published tables of contents, and standard reference summaries — not from copying the book's text), a public-domain King James Scripture passage chosen for that section's theme, and our own themes, key ideas, concept notes, related Bible references, practical application points, and study questions. None of the summarising prose on these pages is Keller's own wording, and it must not be quoted as if it were. Readers who want Keller's actual words should read the book itself, which remains widely available from booksellers and libraries.
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Scripture quotations and Bible links
Scripture quoted on these pages is the King James Version (public domain). Every Scripture reference throughout this study companion links to the corresponding chapter (and, where a single verse is referenced, that verse) in the UECF.NET New King James Version (NKJV) Bible. Keller's own scripture citations and discussion in the printed book, which typically use the NIV, are not reproduced here.
Corrections
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