SM

To NN (179)

I, too, though I have not addressed this here or on your blog have had great difficulty reconciling your comment about “eros” and how that makes for, what I understand you to claim, a divinely intended patriarchal hierarchy in marriage that supercedes “agape”.
You didn’t answer here Sue’s (I believe) question on this. I followed the link you provided in #179 read the comments preceding and following the link up to #12 and you still did not answer the claim you make that the “eros” love unique to a husband-wife relationship is what makes qualifies it as a patriarchial hierarchy. You seem to avoid backing up your claim on this thread and that one.

In #12 on the link you provided you state:

“Therefore this passage can either be interpreted as a situation in which hierarchical governance exists or not… Once again, I leave it to the reader to decide whether it is the case that there is hierarchical governance within the Biblical marriage relationship or not…”

Will you help me understand the relationship that “eros” plays in making marriage a patriarchal hierarchy?

What type of love provided for the patriarchal hierarchal relationship of master-slave?