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Direct Quotes from Doug Wilson Analyzed in Context

A meta-category collecting posts directly quoting Wilson’s own words, contextualizing them, and allowing readers to evaluate his statements firsthand.

Suspend Disbelief

Doug Wilson Says Read My Theology Book with a ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’ Because ‘Wouldn’t It Be Glorious If This Really Were True?’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson asks readers to approach his theology with a 'willing suspension of disbelief' — as fiction. Should Christian doctrine require make-believe?

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“So here is my proposal...read this little book as though it were a work of fiction. Just for a short while, I am asking for that willing suspension of disbelief. And if that request is granted, then I believe that a striking feature of this kind of historical optimism will become plain. Every Christian can agree on one thing at least\. Wouldn’t it be glorious if this really were true?” – Doug Wilson “So here is my proposal...read this little book as though it were a work of fiction. Just for a short while, I am asking for that willing suspension of disbelief. And if that request is granted, then I believe that a striking feature of this kind of historical optimism will become plain. Every Christian can agree on one thing at least\. Wouldn’t it be glorious if this really were true?” – Doug Wilson
Was Jesus Racist?

Doug Wilson Says If ‘Jesus Was White' and the Canaanite Woman Was ‘Black,’ He Would Have Said ‘It's Not Right’ ‘to Give Perfectly Good White Folk Food to ‘N****rs’’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson retold the story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman using a racial slur. Read his exact words and the biblical case against this rhetoric.

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Doug Wilson Still Affirms Federal Vision

Doug Wilson Says ‘I Have Decided’ to ‘Discontinue Identifying Myself’ with ‘Federal Vision,’ but I Still ‘Affirm Everything I Signed Off on in the Federal Vision Statement’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson dropped the 'Federal Vision' label but still affirms everything he signed. Multiple denominations have declared his theology heretical.

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“I have decided, after mulling over it for some years now, to discontinue identifying myself with what has come to be called the federal vision....This statement represents a change in what I will call what I believe. It does not represent any substantial shift or sea change in the content of what I believe....I would still want [sic] affirm everything I signed off on in the Federal Vision statement.” — Doug Wilson “...I consider the understanding of the objectivity of the covenant [Federal Vision] to be a theological breakthrough.” – Doug Wilson
Future Husband Should Be Agressive and Well-Endowed

Doug Wilson Says Your Future Husband Should Be ‘Aggressive Enough, and Well-Endowed Enough, to Satisfy You Sexually’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Christiana Wells

Doug Wilson told women their future husband should be 'aggressive enough, and well-endowed enough.' Should a pastor give this kind of marriage advice?

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