to adoption is that some feminists argue that the term ‘Father’ should be complemented with other terms such as ‘mother’.3 Others go as far as to suggest that the term ‘father’ should be discarded altogether and replaced by terms such as ‘lover’, ‘companion’, ‘friend’ or ‘liberator’ (McFague 1987). These are issues that need to be addressed, but we need to first consider how the author of Ephesians uses this expression in relation to adoption.
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