Monday, March 12, 2012

"The radical message of the early racial reconciliation leaders, by the time it got to white, grassroots evangelicals, was minimized to little more than having respect for people of other races, or having a cross-race friendship. When a more radical message is pushed, as the leader of Promise Keepers, Bill McCatney, observed, the walls go up, and those in the conservative Christian subculture tune him out." --Divided by Faith 167-168

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

"Many view Gal 3:28 as the egalitarian counterpart to 1 Tim 2:11-12, but the two passages function differently. 1 Tim 2:11-12 speaks directly to ecclesial roles, and a conclusion about ecclesial roles can be formed directly from the passage...Interpreters draw different conclusions from 1 Tim 2:11-12 only because they interpret the passage differently...Gal 3:28 does not operate in this way; rather, some intervening logical premise must be supplied to draw a conclusion about ecclesial roles. Interpreters [Egalitarian and Complementarian] draw different conclusions from Gal 3:28 because they supply different premises." --Douglas Walker's Dissertation from Trinity Divinity school