Why I Agree With John Piper on Female Professors in Seminary
John Piper has set the internet on fire with his recent comments about female professors in seminary. You can read his post here. His argument that there should NOT be female seminary professors has gotten a lot of people upset.
I would like to say that I agree with John Piper’s basic argument about female seminary pastors. Don’t get upset but rather hear me out. Look carefully at what Piper says:
Let me put it another way in the form of a question. If it is unbiblical to have women as pastors, how can it be biblical to have women who function in formal teaching and mentoring capacities to train and fit pastors for the very calling from which the mentors themselves are excluded? I don’t think that works. The issue is always that inconsistency.
I completely agree with what Piper is saying. If it is unbiblical for female pastors, it must be unbiblical for women to teach the Bible in seminaries. Consistency is key.
It just so happens that I support women in pastoral ministry and so I support women as seminary professors. You can read my views here. But for Piper’s belief that women cannot be pastors, he should be consistent with that belief across the board.
I happen to appreciate the female pastors I’ve gotten to know and and I also have been blessed to have some fantastic female seminary professors.
But should we be mad at John Piper? Now, he is being consistent and I agree with that consistency.
