Baptist values vs. American values
Posted by bg on January 21, 2007
The career of Sheri Klouda, who received a doctorate from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and then was hired for a tenure-track teaching position there, has hit a bump in the road: Sheri Klouda received her doctorate from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and was hired for a tenure-track position in 2002 teaching Hebrew in the theology school. But in 2004, she was told she would not get tenure and should look for another job, a series of events confirmed by Van McClain, chairman of the Southwestern trustees. Southwestern is taking the “traditional, confessional and biblical position” that women should not teach men in theology or biblical languages, McClain said. That position is based on a Biblical verse in which the Apostle Paul says, “I permit no woman to teach or have authority over a man.” Kloud…
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