Lin

” His citing of Gottman and Murray does not counter their conclusion, it confirms it. (BTW – have Gottman and Murray claimed he lied, or is this just some blogger’s opinion?) If anything, the posts at Suzanne’s Bookshelf grossly misquote and misinterpret Eggerich. But we are not here to debate that blog.”

Sorry, I cannot get past this. This is simply NOT true. Eggerich’s whole foundation is authority/submission model (that he believes is taught in Eph 5) to focus on the love/respect teaching. He maps love/respect to authority/submission.

The Gottman study was based on total equality in marriage. No authority involved. No model of submission. No trump card for decision making. It was not even based on gender! So the whole supporting foundation of the Gottman study was ignored by Eggerich!

That fact that Eggerich fails to mention this HUGE foundational fact of the study, should concern you. Look, you quoted from the book. I thought you would want to know the truth about the Gottman study. Eggerich teaches hierarchy in marriage. Not equality. Watch the Royal Society lecture. “According to James Murray, their study did not differentiate for gender. I should stop being surprised that the truth has no currency for those who wish to demonstrate that science proves the Bible.”

And what about the word ‘respect’ in that passage being phobos? That could present a problem for the’ ‘men need respect side’. phobos is where we get our word for phobia.

Suzanne is not ‘some blogger’. She is a scholar. Her site is a treasure trove for Greek understanding on such words like authenteo and kephale. And I do not agree with her on everything but she does her homework.