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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."
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.
Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.
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