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The King's Hall

The Patriarchy of Christendom

The King's Hall

Brian Sauvé, Dan Berkholder, & Eric Conn

Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we seek to recover the patriarchy of the first Christendom, including the reformers. To men like Knox, Calvin, Vermigli, and others, headship and father rule were central, not secondary, issues upon which Christendom was built. C.S. Lewis included headship in his book, Mere Christianity, as a centrally important doctrine. We'll unpack nine principles that are central to a patriarchal vision, which is in turn essential for building Christendom.We also discuss the recent tweet ...

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To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority,

0:06.8

dominion, or empire above any realm, nation or city,

0:10.4

is repugnant to nature,

0:12.2

contumelius to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed

0:15.9

will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order of all equity and justice. John Knox from the first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous

0:26.4

regiment of women. Princeton theologian BB Warfield, a contemporary of first-wave feminist leaders, Elizabeth Katie Stanton, and

0:35.2

Susan B. Anthony, pointed out that feminism viewed the individual rather than the family

0:40.1

as the fundamental unit of society. Warfield wrote,

0:43.0

to Paul, the human race is made up of families.

0:47.0

And every several organism, the church included, is composed of families,

0:51.0

united together by this or that bond. The relation of the sexes in the family

0:55.4

follows it therefore into the church. However, to the feminist movement the human race is

1:00.9

made up of individuals. A woman is just another individual by the side of the man,

1:05.8

and it can see no reason for any differences in dealing with the two."

1:09.2

Thus feminism's anti-family individualism also opposed male rule in the church.

1:15.2

Warfield concluded quote, and indeed if we can ignore the great fundamental

1:19.8

natural differences of sex and destroy the great fundamental social unit of the family

1:24.8

in the interest of individualism there does not seem any reason why we should not

1:29.0

wipe out the differences established by Paul between the sexes in the church.

1:33.0

Quoted from Zachary Garris' forthcoming New Christen impress book,

1:37.0

Honor Thy fathers recovering the anti-feminist theology of the reformers.

1:41.0

A few years ago, a member of my church out in Ogden happened upon

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