Male Rule Should Extend Across All of Society, Not Just Church and Home
But arguing for patriarchy means an understanding that nature itself teaches us that male leadership is to be more extensive than that, and in healthy societies “father rule” will be seen across the board.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2024, from Blog & Mablog, cited to the source.
I would want to call myself patriarchal. Complementarians want to honor the teaching of Scripture on submission, but they tend to restrict that understanding to keeping women out of the pulpits of churches, and by teaching male headship in the home. But arguing for patriarchy means an understanding that nature itself teaches us that male leadership is to be more extensive than that, and in healthy societies “father rule” will be seen across the board.