The printed edition this companion is based on
This study companion is keyed to a specific printed edition of Timothy Keller’s book, whose title page and copyright page read as follows:
- Title: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
- Author: Timothy Keller
- Publisher: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
- First published: 2013 · © 2013 by Timothy Keller. All rights reserved.
- Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59463-440-6
Copyright
This book is still under copyright. Like all of Timothy Keller’s books, no portion of it may be reproduced in any form, except for brief quotations in reviews, without written permission from the publisher.
Because of this, UECF.NET does not publish Timothy Keller’s text on this site. What you are reading in this web book is an original UECF.NET study companion: for each of the sixteen chapters, we provide a Scripture heading (quoted here from the public-domain King James Version, with a link to the same passage in the UECF.NET NKJV Bible), our own original summary, key points, a description of a few of Keller’s illustrations, one short cited quotation per chapter, and discussion questions written for this companion. None of the summarising prose on these pages is Keller’s own wording — it is UECF.NET’s paraphrase and analysis, written for this study companion, and should not be quoted as though it were a quotation from the book itself. Readers who want Keller’s actual words should read the book, which remains widely available from booksellers and libraries.
How this web edition was produced
UECF.NET was supplied with a condensed chapter-by-chapter digest of the printed edition described above, prepared by a third-party summarizing service and covering all sixteen chapters. Our team reviewed that digest in full to identify the book’s structure, its major themes, and the line of Keller’s argument in each chapter. That structural information (chapter titles, the sequence of topics, and the Scripture passages Keller draws on) is factual and is presented accurately here. The explanatory content built around it on every page — the “big idea” notes, summaries, key points, illustration descriptions, and discussion questions — was then composed independently by UECF.NET, in our own words, specifically for this study companion.
Because our source material did not reliably preserve the printed book’s own page numbers, chapter pages on this site do not cite a page in the printed edition; readers who want to locate a passage in their own copy should use the chapter and section headings shown here.
UECF.NET is responsible for the web presentation, navigation, search, Bible-linking, and reading interface of this edition; Timothy Keller and Dutton / Penguin Group (USA) are responsible for the book itself, which this companion is designed to send readers back to, not replace.
Scripture headings and Bible linking
Keller’s book quotes Scripture throughout, primarily from the English Standard Version and New International Version; none of that copyrighted translation text is reproduced here. For each chapter, UECF.NET has selected a representative Scripture heading — in most cases a passage Keller himself discusses at length in that chapter, and in a few cases a closely related passage chosen editorially to summarize the chapter’s theme — quoted from the public-domain King James Version. Each heading also links to the same passage in the UECF.NET NKJV Bible so readers can read the fuller context in a modern translation hosted on this site.
About the author
Timothy J. Keller (1950–2023) was the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, which he and his wife, Kathy, established in 1989 and grew into a large, diverse congregation over more than two decades. He also chaired Redeemer City to City, a ministry that has helped plant several hundred churches worldwide. Keller wrote more than twenty-five books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Reason for God and The Prodigal God, and was widely recognized as one of the most influential American pastors and Christian writers of his generation. He died in New York on May 19, 2023, following a battle with pancreatic cancer — the same illness he wrote about, prospectively, in the closing chapter of Walking with God through Pain and Suffering.
Corrections
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