General Patriarchy Timeline from the Patriarchy Workshop

Included in the Handout for the Patriarchy Workshop,

EMNR at MBTS, March 2008

Date	Category	Event
1812	Theology	Turretin’s “Systematic Theology” (introducing the language but not concept of subordination) selected for use at Princeton at the University’s inception. Charles Hodge used Turretin’s work during his more than 50 years of teaching at Princeton, writing his own Systematic Theology text which included the term of “subordinationism” but did not argue for the doctrine in the full context of his writing.
1900s
Early 1900s	theology	Language shift introducing the use of the word “function” synonymously or in place of the “works,” “acts,” and “operations” of God within seminaries and the academic discussion of theology.
1960s
1961	Parachurch Organization	Bill Gothard founds what is now known as the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP).
1965	Theology & Parachurch organization	Rousas J Rushdoony founds the Chalcedon Foundation, publishing both the Chalcedon Report and the Journal of Christian Reconstruction. He advocates for homeschooling through these publications, also eventually publishing “Intellectual Schizophrenia,” “The Messianic Character of American Education,” and “The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum.”
Late 1960s	homeschooling	Ramond & Dorothy Moore, experts in the education of children, begin their study of and advocacy of homeschooling.
1970s
1970s	theology	Language shift introducing the use of the word “role” synonymously or in place of “function,” “works,” “acts,” and “operations” of God within seminaries and the academic discussion of theology. These teachings contributed and promoted the acceptance of the concept of the Doctrine of Subordination as orthodox (that Christ is of lesser essence and/or authority than God the Father within Trinity).

1977	Theology	George Knight III’s “NT Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women” published. (This is the first book, according to Kevin Giles, to parallel the hierarchical concepts of the Eternal Subordination of Christ within Trinity to women and gender.)
1977	homeschooling	John Holt (following from his earlier critiques regarding the failures of public education) produces “Growing Without Schooling”, a secular magazine dedicated to home education.
1978 – 1979	theology	Christian Voice and the Moral Majority organize the “Christian Right” and political campaigns to further Christian interests within politics and within the American culture.
1980s
1980s	homeschooling	Christian School Movement peaks in the early 1980s then begins a steady decline; homeschooling continues steady growth and popularity throughout the decade.
1983	Homeschooling	Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) founded by Michael Farris. From www.hslda.org: “HSLDA is nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.”
1984	Parachurch Organization	Bill Gothard establishes his homeschooling program, the Advanced Training Institute of America.
1987	theology	The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) established “because of the widespread compromise of biblical understanding of manhood and womanhood and its tragic effects on the home and the church.” (from www.cbmw.org website) Though it did not do so at its inception, many individuals now associated with CBMW promote the Doctrine of Subordinationism, drawing parallels between this Doctrine of God and gender roles in order to support their gender hierarchy.

1990s
1990s	Patriarchical ecclesiology	The Family Integrated Church (FIC) movement (a family-oriented, special purpose religion or homeschooling affinity group) emerges from within the Evangelical Christian homeschooling community. Primarily, the FICs vilify age-oriented, appropriate education (Sunday school for children; youth groups, etc.) as a harmful practice because it is seen to interfere with the role of the father as the patriarch of his family. Some FIC’s embrace the practice of paedocommunion (offering the Eucharist to children within the “covenant community,” reminiscent of the Love Feasts practiced in the early church).
1990	Patriarchical ecclesiology	The Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly (RPCGA), a new denomination of the Family Integrated Church (FIC) movement established. The new, family integrated church oriented denomination first withdrew from the North Georgia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1983 to become the Covenant Presbytery which later formed the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the US in 1985, then divided into four separate presbyteries in 1990, one of which was the RPCGA.
1991	Patriarchical ecclesiology	The League of the South’s Lloyd Sprinkle publishes RL Dabney’s “A Defense of Virginia and the South” (originally published in 1867) and BM Palmer’s “The Family: It’s Civil and Churchly Aspects” (originally published in 1876).
1994	theology	Wayne Grudem’s “Systematic Theology” published. Grudem who participates with CBMW teaches the Doctrine of Subordinationism and parallels the hierarchical concepts of Trinity with gender roles and the subordination of women. Grudem’s Systematic Theology text is the most popular and commonly used text within seminaries in the United States at the time of this writing.
1994	Parachurch organization	The Gothard and IBLP affiliated Oak Brook College of Law and Government (OBCL) established. (After Vision Forum is established in 1998, it becomes a popular place for graduates from OBCL to intern.)
1994	Parachurch organization	The League of the South (formerly known as the Southern League) is established. Though the establishment of an independent Southern republic serves as the primary political goal, the League also promotes a return to traditional social, agrarian and Christian values.
1995	Theology	Death of Greg Bahnsen, very influential Theonomist and presuppositional apologist following from the school of Cornelius Van Til.
1998	Parachurch organization & Patriarchical Ecclesiology	Vision Forum founded by Doug Phillips in San Antonio, TX, providing resources for homeschooling families. Eventually founded the National Center of Family Integrated Churches (NCFIC), a registry and church planting organization (?possibly a new denomination?) for homeschooling affinity group/special purpose religion churches.
1998	Patriarchical ecclesiology	Doug Wilson’s “Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches” (new FIC inclusive and Federal Vision oriented denomination) founded. Though the CREC denies that they are Romanist, many argue that they are a syncretic blend of Reformed Theology, patristic doctrines and Roman Catholicism (since many followers credit Federal Vision and the New Perspectives on Paul as largely responsible for their conversion to Catholicism.)
1999	Patriarchical ecclesiology	Eric Wallace’s “Uniting Church and Home” published, the content of which would frame out Vision Forum’s “Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy.”
2000
2000	Homeschooling	Patrick Henry College (Purcellville, VA, founded by Michael Farris of HSDLA) opens the first American college designed specifically for Christian homeschooled students.
2000	theology	Bruce Ware’s “Father, Son and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles and Relevance” published. Argued by Kevin Giles to promote the Doctrine of Subordinationism and the parallel between the Trinity and gender roles.
2001	theology	Death of Rousas J Rushdoony, one of the most influential Christian Reconstructionists and the father of modern Theonomy.
2002	theology	The first Federal Vision Pastor’s Conference held at the Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, LA. (Speakers included Doug Wilson, Steve Wilkins, John Barach and Steve Schlissel.) Federal Vision teaching promotes the Doctrine of Subordinationism and the parallel between Trinity and gender roles. The movement (associated with the neo-liberal New Perspectives on Paul) would be deemed aberrant by 3 Presbyterian denominations. Several of the participating ministers lost their ordination, most of whom sought ordination under Doug Wilson’s (FIC oriented) CREC.
2003	patriarchical ecclesiology	Vision Forum releases a short-lived, inflammatory version of the “Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy” (originally produced circa 1991), declaring the sins of any alternative to homeschooling and “non-normative” roles for women (education or working outside the home). Vision Forum publishes Phillip Lancaster’s “Family Man, Family Leader,” further defining the practice of patriarchy and the philosophy of the movement.
2003 - 2004	Theology & Patriachical ecclesiology	Growing controversy begins to emerge regarding the consolidating ideology of patriarchy and the FIC. The parachurch organizations promoting patriarchy become much more verbally aggressive with their critics as dissent regarding their views becomes more formal, public and legitimate. Sermons and publications by KW (Pete) Hurst and P. Andrew Sandlin were among the first to openly challenge the heterodoxy and heteropraxy characteristics of patriarchy and the FIC.
2006	theology	The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International passes a resolution deeming the FIC movement errant and schismatic.
2006	Patriarchical Ecclesiology	RC Sproul, Jr, (son of the renowned founder of the Presbyterian Ligonier Ministries, RC Sproul) is deposed/defrocked by the RPCGA concerning a host of ethical and doctrinal issues. Among the charges against him, there was some evidence of a plan to establish the FIC trend of paedocommunion as an acceptable practice within the RPCGA.
2006	Patriarchical ecclesiology	Covenant Presbyterian Church Presbytery (a new FIC denomination) established by two ministers who were also deposed/censured by the RPCGA denomination shortly after the defrocking of RC Sproul, Jr.
2007	Theology	Deaths of D James Kennedy and Jerry B. Falwell, both long-standing and very influential Evangelical Christian leaders who helped to shape the “Christian Right” and Christian Reconstruction efforts from their formal origins in the late 1970s.