Jarrel Oliveira

“Bennett describes this as the patriarchal equilibrium. Regardless of how much freedom women have, they always have less than men. Yet the patriarchal equilibrium is a continuum, not a fixed standard. The boundaries of patriarchy wax and wane; the size of a woman’s room—the space where she is able to make her own choices—changes. Some women have bigger rooms, such as wealthy women with husbands and fathers among the highest social classes. Some women have smaller rooms, such as poorer women from families with little political and social influence. Historical circumstances, such as the aftermath of the Black Death in Europe, temporarily expanded women’s rooms by increasing their independence as wage earners, while other historical circumstances, such as Athenian democracy, made women’s rooms smaller.”
― Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

“I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.”360”
― Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

“Misreading rhetorical techniques and skipping the social and historical contexts means that dispensationalist end-times writers don’t see the return from exile and the resettlement of the promised land as prophetic fulfilment. Most Old Testament passages that dispensationalists understand as speaking of the millennium point to”
― Brian P. Irwin, After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World

“What is the lesson in this historical parade of end-times prediction? While predictions of the world’s end often have spawned intense evangelistic outreach”
― Brian P. Irwin, After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World