A friend of mine, familiar with my opposition to p...

2009-03-17T07:47:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine, familiar with my opposition to patriarchy/patriocentrism and online activism to counter it, just told me this morning about the book Quiverfull. Naturally I have not yet read it, but I hope to very soon and give my thoughts as well.

My only disappointment is that so far Christendom has not yet produced a sensitive, in-print, comprehensive Biblical rebuttal to Vision Forum-esque "father-rule-ism." Rather only "evangelical feminists" have offered highly questionable opposing views. And "complementarian" defenders such as author/pastor John Piper, theologian Wayne Grudem and Southern Baptist seminary president Al Mohler have done well wonderfully outlining Biblical husband/wife and family roles according to Ephesians 5 and other passages, but have not (to my knowledge) specifically and by name repudiated the extreme and dangerous beliefs of the patriocentrists.

For research on your own book, I would highly recommend articles and blog columns by Midwest Christian Outreach (Don Veinot), at MidwestOutreach.org. And from a young Christian man's (mine) perspective, you may be interested in some of my own site's material in the category of legalism and patriocentricity. I love the Biblical "mystery" of Christ and His church, with a husband's loving, sacrificial servant leadership, but cannot stand the extra-Biblical, destructive, anti-individualistic, anti-God and pro-moralism view of the patriarchalist activists.

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A friend of mine, familiar with my opposition to p...