Books written by John G. Stackhouse Jr.

  • Partners in Christ: A Conservative Case for Egalitarianism

    Does the Bible contradict itself then? Not so. John Stackhouse describes the single approach in Scripture that guides us with clear direction and moves us beyond the impasse in this important debate.

  • Need to Know: Vocation as the Heart of Christian Epistemology

    ... 103n24 Perlin, Robert, 23n2 Philips, Timothy R., 194n107 Picasso, 111, 140, 173 Pierce, Ronald W., 249n3 Pinnock, ... 211n14 Potter, Elizabeth, 103n23, 181n83, 182n84 Prior, Barry, 178–79n76 Provan, Iain, 125n58 Pushkin, Alexander, ...

  • Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil

    (William Rowe, himself a distinguished philosopher on this subject and a vigorous opponent of theism, agrees: see his discussion in William L. Rowe, Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction, 2nd ed. [Belmont, Calif.

  • Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World

    ... E. P., 210n35 Schweiker, William, 4n5 Schuurman, Douglas, 225n8 Sectarianism, Protestant, 6,308,332 Secularism, 74, ... 158, 224n3, 239, 291, 318 Tanner, Kathryn, 14n3 Taxonomy, definition of, 32 Taylor, Charles, 323,324n8, Index 365 S.

  • Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil

    Ingmar Bergman, Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman, trans. Lars Malmstrom and David Kushner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960), 150; I am indebted to Luci Shaw's God in the Dark: Through Grief and Beyond (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, ...

  • Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today

    ... before which the mere proclamation of the Gospel is subversive” (quoted in Carolyn Forché, “Oscar Romero,” in Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith, ed. Susan Bergman [Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996], 59).

  • Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender

    Susan Bergman [Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996], 206). 14. Janette Hassey, No Time for Silence: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry around the Turn of the Century (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986). 15. R. Pierce Beaver, American Protestant ...

  • Evangelicalism: a Very Short Introduction

    Evangelicals have been known for defending a “high” view of scripture—some of them so devoted to the idea of divine inspiration that the Evangelical Theological Society in the United States traditionally had only one clause in its ...

  • Can I Believe?: Christianity for the Hesitant

    Why? This book begins by taking on the initial challenge as it outlines a process: how to think about religion in a responsible way, rather than settling for such soft vagaries as "faith" and "feeling".