(New Voices) Pastors’ Wives and Medieval Religion with Dr. Beth Allison Barr

Show Notes  

Why is history critical for how we understand theology? Author, professor, and historian Dr. Beth Allison Barr discusses her two new, forthcoming projects with Erin and Blake. Listeners get a front-row sneak peek into why the rise of the “pastor's wife” role affected women’s ordination and why medieval history needs to be rediscovered by Protestants for the sake of women and men in our churches. 

 

Bio  

Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University. She earned her PhD in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. She is also a pastor’s wife and mom of two great kids. She is currently working on two new publications: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: The History of How Marriage (Not Ordination) Became Women’s Pathway to Ministry and Losing Our Medieval Religion: The Cost of Forgetting History for White Evangelical Christians.   

 

 

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Other Reading   

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth 

 
A Medieval Makeover: Women’s Roles Before and After the Reformation 

 
The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England (Gender in the Middle Ages)