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Regendering the Narrative: Women in the History of Christianity

2023; Brill; Volume: 103; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/18712428-10303017

1871-2428

Beth Allison Barr, Allison M. Brown, Katherine Goodwin Lindgren, David M. Whitford,

Religion and Society Interactions

In a vote taken in New Orleans in June 2023, the approximately 12,000 delegates to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (sbc) finalized the expulsion of two churches that had ordained women: Saddleback Community Church, a multi-site megachurch founded by Rick Warren in Lake Forest, California, and Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, that had been flying under the sbc radar for more than thirty years with female senior pastor Linda Barnes Popham.Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, proclaimed that rejecting female pastors was a matter of biblical authority.1While rooting his claim in the primacy of "biblical authority," Mohler also roots it in church history."For nearly 2,000 years," he wrote in 2009, 1 For Beth Allison Barr's overview of the Southern Baptist Convention 2023 vote on disfellowshipping churches with female pastors, see "The Irony of Rick Warren Being the Main Character in the Fight for Women Pastors," msnbc, June 15, 2023, https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rick-warren-southern-baptists-women-rcna88964.