Re: [asa] Roles of women

At 06:52 PM 1/30/2007, Austerberry, Charles wrote:
>Reasons (poor ones, generally) for restricting what women can do in
>the church range from hermeneutical to scientific. What strikes me
>is how scripture can become an idol, which can then lead to
>unfounded doctrines that are ungodly, in my opinion. Whether God
>chose to put inerrant history and science in the Bible should be a
>question resolved through open study, not a litmus-test
>doctrine. Likewise, whether St. Paul's attitude about women in
>roles of authority more reflects God's perspective or Paul's human
>cultural perspective ought to be an open question, not policy, in my
>opinion. This action of the SBC makes me sad, but it's consistent
>with many conservative denominations' actions towards biology
>professors who would teach evolution. At least women can teach
>biology (if not evolution) in SBC schools. But what if the SBC
>decides that pastors-to-be should learn some biology (imagine!) in
>SBC seminaries? Could women teach them biology, even though they
>can't teach Hebrew? Which has more significance for theology
>anyway?
><http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/012007dnmetnubaptists.176f48d.html>http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/012007dnmetnubaptists.176f48d.html
>
>Chuck Austerberry
>e-mail: <mailto:cfauster@creighton.edu>cfauster@creighton.edu
>Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education
><http://nrcse.creighton.edu/>http://nrcse.creighton.edu

@ I don't think it has anything to do with "teaching", does it? It
is unseemly for a woman to "wear the pants" as an "overseer" over her
husband in the family or over God's flock in a church organization.

Of course God did have to put a woman (Deborah) in charge of the army
once since there were only male wusses available at that time from
which to choose. :)

~ Janice

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Received on Tue Jan 30 19:10:32 2007