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# Mere Fidelity: On Divine Accommodation - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/mere-fidelity-divine-accommodation/
- Published: 2014-07-23T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T16:56:46.000Z
- Description: How does God accommodate himself to us? How do we avoid projecting ourselves on to him?
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson

How does God accommodate himself to us? How do we know when he has accommodated himself to us, or when we are projecting ourselves back on him? In this episode, we take up what has traditionally been called the doctrine of ‘divine accommodation,’ and consider its limits and its abuses.

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