The Man as Head of the House E-Book

Tarcisius Mukuka

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Theology - Biblical Theology, grade: 1.0, Kwame Nkrumah University, language: English, abstract: This exegetical article examines the source of the misconception that the man is the head of the house. It punctures and debunks the patriarchal myth that men have it by divine mandate to lord it over women. I do this by providing a detailed exegetical analysis of Eph 5. 21‒24 which for a start does not even say that the man is the head of the house. I argue that the man is described as kephalē of the woman, whether understood as head or source of the wife, not to tell us who is boss but to use the human experience of spousal love as an analogy for the love between Jesus Christ (the husband) and the Church (the wife). Once the analogy is understood, it is no longer about husband and wife but about the Church’s relationship with her spouse Jesus Christ.