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In this reading, I tried putting myself in the shoes of a wife or someone during that time, listening to this sermon. I found it somewhat contradictory. Wadsworth says the relationship should be mutual, but then says the husband is the head of the woman and the government of the household. The wife must submit to the husband. Obviously, this is a patriarchal society, and that was the thinking of it I guess. -Aqsa Z. | In this reading, I tried putting myself in the shoes of a wife or someone during that time, listening to this sermon. I found it somewhat contradictory. Wadsworth says the relationship should be mutual, but then says the husband is the head of the woman and the government of the household. The wife must submit to the husband. Obviously, this is a patriarchal society, and that was the thinking of it I guess. -Aqsa Z. | ||
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| + | In today's society we hear so much about the need for equality among the sexes and how the women of the past were seen as lesser beings than their husbands and the ways women struggled to become equals. In this sermon Benjamin Wadsworth echoes the viewpoint that we hear most often from that time period; that women must "love, honor, and OBEY" their husbands, "the husband is called the head of the woman", and that "wives held only second place in the family hierarchy", But Wadsworth goes one step further in his sermon by insisting that this submissiveness and obedience be "ready and cheerful". In short his idea of the perfect family is one is which the husband runs the show, there is no "disruptive outbursts" that would offend God, and every member of the family, including the wife, is happy and grateful for their lot. I find this interesting because I wonder how much of an effect this had on the women of the time. Clearly their religion was very important to them and they did follow the prescribed guidelines for how a family should be set up, but it would be interesting to know if they truly did obey and serve their husbands as cheerfully and readily as they were supposed to. --Grace Christenson | ||
== Susanna Wesley, 1732, Evangelical Child-Rearing == | == Susanna Wesley, 1732, Evangelical Child-Rearing == | ||
