“Among those ways and thoughts of God, then, is the principle of accommodation. God works within human limitations - both individual and corporate - to transform the world according to his good purposes. To be blunt, God works with what… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“As I look hard at the Bible, however, and at the two thousand years of church history since the Bible's completion, it seems evident that God has accommodated himself over and over to the weakness and even the sin of human beings. He also has called his faithful ones to a similar accommodation. The 'already but not yet' tension is… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never immediately revolutionarily outside the central matter of his own mission and person...The main scandal of Jesus' career is properly JESUS - not Jesus and feminism, or Jesus and the abolition of slavery, or Jesus and Jewish… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share
“Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.” — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment of more or less truth, goodness, and beauty. With those questions to the fore, in fact, we can interrogate various other traditions and truly learn something that can improve our own. Perhaps the Presbyterians really do… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share
“Among those ways and thoughts of God, then, is the principle of accommodation. God works within human limitations - both individual and corporate -… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the Baptists or… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
