The Obedience Paradox: Finding True Freedom in Marriage Stanford Mary
The Obedience Paradox: Finding True Freedom in Marriage Stanford Mary Few concepts in Christianity are more misunderstood than obedience. Yet headship and obedience within marriage has been preached…
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The Obedience Paradox: Finding True Freedom in Marriage Stanford Mary
Few concepts in Christianity are more misunderstood than obedience. Yet headship and obedience within marriage has been preached authoritatively throughout the Church's history.When properly understood and lived out, obedience is, in fact, liberating. Words like submissive, subject, and obedient can appear utterly incompatible with the fundamental equality that Jesus offers to us in baptism.
Presenting the sexual complementarity of husband and wife as an expression of gift, this book probes the meaning and power of receptivity in a relationship.While a marriage certainly involves mutual giving and receiving, a husband most authentically lives headship when he acts as a generous The Obedience Paradox illuminates the subject by examining the relationship between husband and wife in marriage as an image of Christ's relationship to the Church.