Patriarchalism Redux

August 25th, 2006 | 1 min read

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

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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