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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Does anyone write Christian marriage self-help books where the wife doesn't have to submit to the husband? I'd like to see a freebie where each spouse is expected to be an equal partner in the marriage, with more realistic problem resolution.
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You may have been asking a rhetorical question, but in case you weren't, I will take it at face value.
I don't know if people who hold the view(s) are in a majority of those who call themselves Christians, or not. But it's a pretty sizable percentage. At any rate, the percentage of
non-academic conservative books published for Christians is far greater than the liberal ones, on the male headship matter at least. I don't know why that is true, but it is.
That's the main reason, I think, that there are less deals and freebies on them to be found. And if we can't find them, we can't post them. And, I've noticed that the liberal publishing houses (that would go against the male headship view) seem to do less deals and freebies types of promotions than the conservative ones. Why not? Again, I don't know. But if there aren't many such promotions from them, there will tend to be a corresponding lower number that we can post.
In case you are wondering, the reason that there are so many who believe in male headship in marriage is that the Bible (in particular, the New Testament) has some pretty plain passages that teach that. People who argue against it either have to find some way to argue against the evident meaning of those passages or have to deny the inspiration of the New Testament. Those who take the latter position say that the human writers, like Paul (to whom most of the male headship in the New Testament are attributed) were just ordinary people and weren't "inspired" in any sense different from what other people would be (as being "inspired" by a beautiful sunset, etc.). This leads those who hold that position to make such statements as, "Paul was a woman-hater, that's why he said those things," etc.
This is the only post that I'll make on this thread on the subject, in order that I not be guilty of starting or continuing an off-topic discussion.