Family, Education, and Indoctrination

Review of Joe Boot's The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society (part 8 of 10)

In what ways is the family under attack in the modern west? What has been the impact of cultural Marxism in western education? Was the normalisation of free state education a backdoor to state indoctrination? Are we neglecting our children by denying them a Christian education? Is there a way back from Babylonian captivity?

Having established the dynamic vision of cultural dominion for the kingdom of God, in chapter 11 Boot turns towards the thesis that the well-ordered and flourishing family is the key foundation for the well-ordered and flourishing society.

Feminism and Patriarchy

Many people today might superficially agree with such an observation without really understanding what this entails, nor the many ideological forces in modernity which have explicitly targeted the godly household as though it were a tyrannical evil:

[T]he radical feminism that has informed so much of the shift in social attitude toward the family, considers the scriptural perspective a form of slavery – slavery for women. Their anti-biblical egalitarianism has feminized both church and society to such a degree that many today view the Puritan (biblical) perspective on family as a draconian form of patriarchy. (402)

The tenets of feminism are so embedded in the western consciousness that it is hard for most people to even discuss them, let alone criticise them.