The Case for Patriarchy

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He defines "patriarchy" as "The veritable Christian teaching on family" (ref:6.140) or "the Christian teaching on marriage" (ref:7.159).

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" The Case For Patriarchy is 'man-splaining' at its very best."
Michael J. Knowles

For two thousand years, Christianity has taught, with startling specificity, that married men are patriarchs who should relate to their wives as Christ relates to His Bride, the Church. Yet as feminism swept across Western society in recent decades, our understanding of patriarchy became corrupted, and men have been astoundingly swift in their forfeiture of their God-given patriarchal rights and duties.

While The Case for Patriarchy articulates a position that is provocative in our day, it’s a position that was without controversy for millennia. Why? Because Christians viewed patriarchy as a theological necessity according to the dictates of Christian Scripture and Tradition.

In these powerful pages, Timothy Gordon argues that Christ did more than establish a clerical patriarchy ― an all-male priesthood. He also created a lay patriarchy of male householders who act as priests, prophets, and kings of their families. The supplantation of this patriarchy with a feminist “matriarchy,” Gordon argues, has proven to be the most devastating of all the subversive revolutions waged upon Christendom by the radical, secular Left.

Gordon demonstrates that the Word of God single-handedly foils all the toxic plans of modern radicals, and centuries of Christian theology in the East and West have reinforced it. He pulls the curtain back on the “waves” of feminism that have swept over Western culture, and he refutes the methodology they employ to undermine men. Finally, he examines what the restoration of the Christian vocation should look like, as well as explores the patriarchal virtues that all men should exercise in their home and society.

Here is a book that boldly pushes back on the narrative that the patriarchy is dangerous to women and to society. Indeed, it is a book that unapologetically seeks a restoration of Western society based on patriarchal order, where justice and the common good can triumph.

Review

"Not since Harvey Mansfield's Manliness has a book been so sure to enrage the feminist Left. And yet even those skeptical that a case can be made for patriarchy cannot deny the bitter fruits of the past half-century's sexual revolution: ever more out-of-wedlock births; increasing deaths of despair; and soaring rates of anxiety and depression among women and children. In an age that refuses to acknowledge that men are not women, Tim Gordon enjoins his readers to recall the complementarity of the sexes. With uncommon insight and courage, Gordon enjoins his readers to rout cultural revolutionaries by resurrecting the wisdom of the ages. The Case For Patriarchy is 'man-splaining' at its very best."
Michael J. Knowles

"As Tim Gordon shows in this trumpet blast of a book, the patriarchy so despised by default today contains the very seeds of restoration for which everyone is crying out: happier marriages, stronger families, a healthier Church, a more just economic and social order."
Patrick Coffin
Author, co-founder of CoffinNation.com --Personal Endorsement

About the Author

Timothy J. Gordon studied philosophy in Pontifical graduate universities in Europe, taught it at Southern Californian community colleges, and then went on to law school. He holds degrees in literature, history, philosophy, and law. Currently, he resides in Mississippi with his wife and six children, where he writes and teaches philosophy and theology.

My KOReader notes:

What Household Revolution Looks Like

07/11/24What Household Revolution Looks Like : 29

men are attracted not to headstrong, officious women but rather to the supportive, submissive ones who will appreciate (rather than covet) male strength and leadership.

07/11/24What Household Revolution Looks Like : 30

the true married vocation invites women who are loyal, docile, supportive, faithful, lovely, and encouraging believers in their husbands.

07/11/24What Household Revolution Looks Like : 54

Flooding the workplace with females proved feminism’s most potent single attack against the patriarchy,

The Christian Requirement of Household Patriarchy

07/13/24The Christian Requirement of Household Patriarchy : 67

if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word by the conversation of the wives

Feminism’s Origins

07/16/24Feminism’s Origins : 128

Christendom, which is another name for “the patriarchy

07/16/24Feminism’s Origins : 144

fetal brain researchers such as Dr. Leonard Sax

07/16/24Feminism’s Origins : 145

Female/male differences are generally largest in the prenatal period, and those differences diminish with age, often dwindling to zero among adults.

07/16/24Feminism’s Origins : 148

Tuttle rejects not only “gender roles” but the possibility of all virtue — indeed, all pedagogy — because she suspects that human nature cannot simultaneously be predisposed and coached in a certain action.

07/16/24Feminism’s Origins : 148

“If you have to teach it, then the student should never bother knowing it,” she seems to reason.

Platonic pedagogy!

07/16/24Feminism’s Origins : 148

natural categories — up to and including masculinity and femininity — began to be doubted in the modern world: nominalism.

The Patriarchal Virtues

07/17/24The Patriarchal Virtues : 200

Cicero here, too, qualifies six helpful natural law subparts invoked by justice, invaluably instructive for the household father: religion, piety, consideration, retribution, honor, and truth.

07/18/24The Patriarchal Virtues : 226

joking fecklessly about wifely disobedience and explain to your wife the spiritual deadliness of the subversion of Christ’s relation to His Church!

07/18/24The Patriarchal Virtues : 226

disobedience of a husband equates to a wifely lack of love for Jesus, just as failing to lead and defend is a husbandly lack of love for Christ.

07/18/24The Patriarchal Virtues : 227

In the private home or in the public arena, most men today must reclaim their office of leadership by humbly accepting a more confrontational role. Privately, they must simply insist with their wives upon their leadership. Publicly, they must begin announcing this private truth loudly. Only in this way can public virtue begin to be restored.

How to Take Back Western Culture from the Feminists

07/18/24How to Take Back Western Culture from the Feminists : 233

feminism is, in the main, an attack on chastity

07/18/24How to Take Back Western Culture from the Feminists : 234

Whereas the feminist popular culture has sexualized premarital life and desexualized marital life, weaponized chastity involves the precise opposite: desexualizing premarital life and resexualizing marital life.

07/18/24How to Take Back Western Culture from the Feminists : 234

kids just took every sexual impulse out of them

Shouldn't kids make them feel younger?

07/18/24How to Take Back Western Culture from the Feminists : 251

But body positivity treats human bodies as if they cannot be improved through diet and exercise.

What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like

07/19/24What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like : 269

amount of righteous lay anger or action can ameliorate such maladies, independent of radical clerical reform.) Feminism among the laity, conversely, can be stymied altogether by deliberate lay action. There is peculiar grace and solace in this fact

07/19/24What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like : 281

stay-at-home mothers bought the feminist premise (borrowed from American Calvinism) that wage labor is basically sacred.

07/19/24What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like : 283

When the priest of the household clearly prizes the homeplace over the workplace, his lieutenant will follow suit.

not neccesarily

07/19/24What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like : 285

testosterone-building exercise proves to fortify and perfect male fertility, while it depletes and damages female fertility.

07/19/24What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like : 287

Whether through a “sexy” career or a gritty one, the labor a given householder does to earn his wage matters not.

Mustn't the profession be "honest" (as the Roman Catechism says) though?

07/19/24What Christian Patriarchy Looks Like : 287

male workers lucky enough to spend a greater portion of their work week at home with family enjoy an enhanced (not a diminished) means to perfect their vocation

He coins the term "heterosexual transgenderism". This is an issue even in trad circles.
ref:11.96: "the original transgenderism — feminism — wherein Christian men began, before and during heterosexual marriage, to believe they may function like women and vice versa."
ref:11.97: The "heterosexual form of transgenderism [husbands taking on wives' roles and vice versa] proved capable of disintegrating Christian marriage at the staggering, precipitous volume we have seen recently."