Tim Keller: King of Endnotes

There’s a never-ending debate among readers about whether it’s preferable for a book to have footnotes or endnotes. Regardless of where you come down (footnotes for academic works and endnotes for popular-level titles, obviously!), the passion you feel about this issue indicates the importance of these author-asides in the reading experience.Good notes help you trace ideas back to their sources, and they can often stimulate further reflection. A footnote in N. T. Wright’s massive volume Jesus an