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Many say that there is no other New Testament epistle that expresses Christian truths in such a majestic way. The instructions to husbands and wives in Ephesians 5:21–33 is a topic of much confusion and consternation in modern times. Find out how this challenging teaching is not only liberating, but is a portrait of the Church’s participation in the life of the Blessed Trinity.

In an age so dominated by the doctrine of egalitarianism (and its corollary, the notion that everything is about power), it’s almost irresistible for us moderns to see in St. Paul’s instruction on marriage a “ratification” of the existing code of patriarchal oppression of women that was a given in Mediterranean culture at the time Ephesians was written. It’s not uncommon, in
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