Beth Allison Barr - how the role of minister's wife became the 'ideal' for women in Church leadership
Academic Beth Allison Barr grew up in a Christian home a never really questioning the reality of God and was formally baptised aged 11. Not that there weren't a few theological question marks along the way.
She became an academic historian specialising in medieval history while her husband became a Baptist minister. And it was only when they began to challenge their own church concerning the role of women in leadership that her writing and research took a sightly new focus.
Barr is a Professor of History at Baylor University in Texas studying women’s history, medieval and early modern England…
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