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Does Christianity Teach Male Headship?: The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics

Does Christianity Teach Male Headship?: The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics

Blankenhorn, David
Browning, Don S.
Stewart Vanleeuwen, Mary

Paperback

Series: Religion, Marriage, and Family

Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 0802821715
ISBN13: 9780802821713
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: Dec 1 2003
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
This is not just another book on the perennial issue of male headship. In contrast to those who regard Christianity as the great source of male domination, this book argues that authentic Christianity does not teach that husbands have spiritual superiority over their wives, and its authors listen to and engage those that still claim that it does.

Written by distinguished Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars, the book first demonstrates how deep strands of the Christian tradition have always taught an ethic of gender mutuality. Though patriarchy was pervasive in the ancient world surrounding early Christianity and sometimes influenced the church, new research shows that the earliest layers of Christianity both resisted and worked to transform it. They also sowed the seeds of the equal-regard marriage.

Not every author in the book agrees with this point of view; dissenters have their say too. But the two positions are not simply allowed to pass each other by. As a whole, the book constitutes a robust, respectful debate that, finally, invites readers to decide.

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