Malachi 4:6, a text sloganized by various patriarchy groups, is referenced by Kathryn Joyce several times. 3. The modern modesty movement lurches dangerously into the fallacy of “environmental determinism,” which takes the moral component in man’s being off the table to blame the things around man as the sources of temptation and “stumbling.”
8. Scott Brown’s book,
When the women in this group upheld their dress as “modest,” I pointed out that if we had brought St. Paul back from the first century and dropped him into this church meeting room, he would likely have assumed all the women present were prostitutes. Patriarchy is the term used to describe the society in which we live today, characterised by current and historic unequal power relations between women and men whereby women are systematically disadvantaged and oppressed. There are many similar stories in Joyce’s book, except for one thing: this particular story
42. The hint of “the possible resurrection of [Ted’s] good name” is astonishing on theonomic grounds, let alone the clear teaching of Ezekiel 34:10 where such shepherds are
Joyce hammers the theme of woman’s self-abnegation under patriarchy quite a bit. But what Kathryn Joyce missed was Rushdoony’s equally emphasized idea that the
6. Joyce, 28: “And women would certainly be second class citizens, not property owners.”
Use of such carnal weapons (2 Cor. Ibid., 229f. The problem that comes to light in reading books like Joyce’s is that firsthand reporting like this tends to generate a mass of anecdotal evidence.
Christians have reversed this completely, glibly shopping on the Sabbath while boycotting companies because of what they do with their money, in forgetfulness of Ezekiel 18:1–5’s clear assertions about direct individual responsibility. The Biblical family and its defenders stand on one side of the fixed chasm, and the autonomous individual woman and her defenders stand on the other side. 28. Michael McVicar, “Working With Pygmies: R. J. Rushdoony,
For a better than average evaluation of these questions, Phillip Kayser’s booklet,
The women’s liberation movement he saw as demanding the same irresponsibilities for women that men had claimed for themselves (p. 169); he consequently sees the solution in terms of reasserting responsibility, not institutionalizing yet more irresponsibility. The exposition of patriarchy and feminism in this thesis points toward the difficulty women experienced in the past, and in many cases still do, in their pursuit for equality in a male dominated society. Nonetheless, Rushdoony is
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I ask you to write more books…for your good and for the good of the worldPRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com). 10:4) entails their use in revenge against Christians, since those who live by the sword will likewise die by it. In the war of the worldviews, we now find ourselves wedged between exposés of feminism launched by patriarchalists and exposés of Biblical patriarchy published by feminists. In the interest of full disclosure, I acknowledge that I do count the Botkin family as dear friends. "Patriarchy" vs. "Kyriarchy" I've seen some debate about this, and I wanted to get your perspective. The Biblical family and its defenders stand on one side of the fixed chasm, and the autonomous individual woman and her defenders stand on the other side.
Among issues that will be corrected (sooner than later, we trust) is the projected use of boycotts. The issue of political power for women often lies at the heart of the egalitarian question.