Scott L. Keith
Dr. Scott Keith is Director of Operations and Scholarship for 1517 The Legacy Project and Adjunct Professor of Theology at Concordia University, Irvine. He is a Contributor to The Jagged Word, 1517 The Legacy Project, and Christ Hold Fast. He is also the co-host of The Thinking Fellows podcast. He earned his doctorate from Foundation House Oxford, under the sponsorship of the Graduate Theological Foundation, studying under Dr. James A. Nestingen. Dr. Keiths research focused on the doctrine of good works in the writings of Philip Melanchthon. His recent book, Being Dad: Father as a Picture of Gods Grace, explains how the graciousness and forgiveness that a good father pronounces in the home serves as a picture of Gods grace to prodigals everywhere. He is married to his wife Joy for over twenty years and has three children and two grandchildren.
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Vocation: God Doesn’t Need Your Good Works, but Your Neighbor Does
Scott Keith from 1517.org joins Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb to discuss how churches can recover high views of preaching and the sacraments, as well as robust views and practices around vocation.
Being a Good Dad in a Fatherless Generation
Many children in America grow up in a home where there is no stable biological father or even a consistent father presence in the home. Many children struggle with debilitating setbacks as a result. Incidences like behavioral disorders, difficulties in school, and even early incarceration can be linked to growing up fatherless.
How to Be Dad, Every Day: 9 Questions on Fatherhood with Scott Keith
Our staff had the opportunity to interview Dr. Scott Keith about fatherhood. Scott is a father himself and has also written a great little book on Being Dad.
From Wanting to Be a Good Dad to Just Being Dad
We need to know that God calls dads into the lives of their children so that through them children may experience God’s grace in a very personal way. But that doesn’t mean we will be perfect.
Is Christianity an Opiate or a Truth Serum?
“RELIGION . . . IS THE OPIATE OF THE PEOPLE.”1 Karl Marx’s well-known maxim illustrates a disturbing reality: Too often religion merely makes people feel better about themselves. Some say that religion is no more than a placebo, a deceptively ineffectual medicine, meant to fool the patient into having hope where no real hope exists. […]
