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leevoncarbon's review
5.0
Having read other books by Stackhouse and heard him lecture, I have become familiar with his approach to weighty subjects - take a deep breath and then go at them calmly, thoroughly, eruditely, and humbly. During the middle of the book I wondered about his claim of vocation as the heart of epistemology as it was seldom referred to directly, but in the last chapter there was a strong finish to that theme. This quote sums up a lot of what this book intends to communicate: "We trust God, yes, to do what God alone cane do. But as God trains us in the glorious dignity of partnership, we do our part. And what is up to us to do is to position ourselves to look - really look - at the warrants we have in order to be persuaded by them; acquire the skills necessary to interpret them; locate ourselves in environments conducive to exploring and evaluating them; qualify our conclusions accordingly; and proceed gratefully into appropriate action. The category of vocation returns to help us apply this model now to any reader's situation. For God expects of each of us what each of us can do in order to accomplish what God has called each of us to accomplish. ... We each need to know whatever we particularly need to know. And God can be relied upon fully to teach us - but on a 'need to know' basis." (pg.237/239)