Honor Thy Fathers Quotes

“Bullinger said, “Let the husband be the head of the wife, to wit, her adviser and counsellor, her ruler and guide, her sweet yokefellow and admonisher in all her affairs, her assured aid and faithful defender. Let the wife be obedient unto her husband, even as we see the members obey the head: let her yield herself to her husband to be ruled and governed; let her not despise his honest counsels and indifferent commandments.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Indeed the mother is inferior unto the father, as concerning the law of the subjection of wedlock: besides that, weaker also in nature and kind, so that she is not unworthily called the weaker vessel of the Apostle Peter.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Oecolampadius added, “Moreover the woman was drawn out from the side of Adam, not from a higher part lest she be deemed more worthy, not from a lower part lest she be able to be regarded as worth less, but from the side so that she would be at his side and so be his helper.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“The basic duties of the husband were to provide for the welfare of his wife and children, to protect his household from any who would harm it, and to rule over his family and servants with a firm but just hand.” Ozment added, “Above all, the husband was supposed to rule. He alone was master of his house, the one on whom all domestic discipline and order finally depended.”1 However, the wife “was no maid or common servant of her husband,” but the husband was “father of the house,” and his wife “mother of the house”—“a position of high authority and equal respect.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Rather, the church will win people to Christ by being faithful to Christ, which includes standing firm on His apostles’ teaching of male rule.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“It is easy to praise a Knox or a Calvin of the history books. But if these men were alive today, many Christians would surely reject them for being too controversial and offensive.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“After studying our Reformed forefathers on the family and male rule, Christians must consider whether the modern church’s departure from the teaching of these men has been more faithful to the Bible and has produced a more orderly society.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Reformed theology is not limited to God’s sovereignty in salvation or the unity of His covenant—it also provides a theology of the family.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Feminism has waged war on the traditional family by undermining male rule in the home and by degrading the roles of mother and housewife.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“feminism is an ideology that seeks to flatten the differences between men and women, particularly in the home, the church, and the civil government.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers