WHY GOD IS MALE
Christ and His Adopted Human Father, St. Joseph the Guardian Divine Fatherhood, Prophetic Revelation, and the Eternal Masculinity of the Incarnate Son By Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) The modern mind recoils instinctively at the language of Scripture when it dares to speak plainly: “I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians 3:14–15). The discomfort is not born of textual obscurity, and not of exegetical difficulty, but of a prior ideological commitment; namely, that all distinctions must be rendered negotiable, all asymmetries flattened, and all hierarchies subjected to suspicion. This is the Gospel of Postmodernism, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thus, what the Ancient Church received as revelation is recast as a problem, and what was once confessed by all as a basic truth of Christianity becomes something to be explained away and perceived as “problematic” or “non-essential.” It is some...
