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Beth Allison Barr
James Vardaman Professor of History, Baylor University
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Women in Ministry: History, Stakes, and What Comes Next (Beth Allison Barr)
The Southern Baptist Convention just passed a constitutional amendment restricting women in ministry, and the implications reach far beyond the SBC.
View full episodeBeth Allison Barr is a historian of medieval and early modern Christianity at Baylor University who writes on women, church history, and evangelical teaching about gender. She is the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood and Becoming the Pastor's Wife.
Books
- The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
- Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
- The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England