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# Patriarchalism Redux
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/patriarchalism-redux/
- Published: 2006-08-25T05:12:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:33:29.000Z
- Description: Patriarchalism Redux
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Gender, Theology and Practice

Last night's post prompted this (forthcoming) thought.

Chesterton's justly famous quoted seems apropo to the discussion of patriarchalism and egalitarianism, at least if it's modified a bit.

["Christianity has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and not tried."](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gilbertkc102389.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com)

Substitute our choice words, and we get....

"Patriarchalism has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and not tried."

Conversly,

"Egalitarianism has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and not tried."

Somehow it seems fitting.