The Jack Miller Archive

Paul Miller interview:
P: So I'm just talking about Dad. I'm talking about the role, my only comment is on the role of Sonship it was not as central in Dad's theology...

P: All my point is it was not the these things these four things down here were were the core enduring things in dad and that Sonship was a bit of a phase that that that emerged during his the late short, Norman Shepard period and and could have been fueled by that. I don't know that well ever quite know the connection but if you hear it in his sermons you'll I would almost I could almost predict if you did one of those google word usage things that you'd hear the word Sonship kind of go up and then go down again.

P: So my only point was that was that it was not a dominant theme and it became the lens through what people looked at dad because of Sonship course and then that's the first thought and then you did kind of get a kind of a weir feedback because dad he would even talk he started when Sonship wasn't a movement even in '90. #1:26:

P: It was pretty small even at point. It wasn't until '92, '93 it started taking of but then Dad would start talking about Sonship theology and I told dad I that made me nervous.. #1:26:28.0#

P: It it really a lot of guys without their dads and even if you look at the Sonship course itself I put a lot of stuff in the Sonship because when we did this retreat with our with our trainees in '83 and it really just all it was just really mom and dad had like three lectures on Sonship. And a lot of it emerged out of dad, dad and mom and their relationship you know. So that retreat, I slowly expanded into a course I added my lectures I had I assigned dad topics which he did on the Sonship theme so I took the Sonship theme and expanded it but it it but it I think but because the theme encapsulated the Luke Grace theme I think in that sense it's an accurate description of dad. #1:28:19.7#
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