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The discussions about the roles of women in ministry have amassed great attention. A few scrolls down my Twitter feed and other social media platforms (at least in my circles), I almost always come across some comment or post about women in the pastorate, the push for equality of outcome, and other buzz words surrounding this topic. The recent rift in the Southern Baptist Convention over this issue has brought division among pastors, leaders, and the denomination (and other denominations). The Beth Moore fall-out from the SBC gained attention from the secular world because the situation had great appeal to the liberal narrative, thus it was an easy win for its cause, in that it afforded another opportunity to expose Christianity as a “fundamentalist patriarchal oppressive” religion. However, while there are always bad apples in the bunch, such notions couldn’t be further from the truth.   More and more denominations are ordaining women to the pastorate, and the cultural demand of equa

Below is part of the introductory section to my exposition of John Chrysostom’s doctrine of God. I posted it because I thought it was fascinating to find such an important theologian known for avoiding (even having a disdain of) speculative theology refer to the classical doctrine of divine simplicity as common place in his thoroughly biblical doctrine of God. Toward the end I include a link to my full exposition. John Chrysostom (ca. 347–407) was the archbishop of Constantinople. Being the most prolific of all the Eastern fathers, he fought against the ecclesiastical and political leaders for their abuse of authority. He was called Chrysostom (meaning “golden-mouthed”) for his eloquent sermons. [1] This most distinguished of Greek patristic preachers excelled in spiritual and moral application in the Antiochene tradition of literal exegesis, largely disinterested, even untutored in speculative and controversial theology. [2] On the Incomprehensible Nature of G