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An Evening with Dr Beth Allison Barr: The Chair of Christian Thought Bentall Lecture on Education and Theology

Abstract
History forgets much more than it remembers, and what it remembers is often what people have chosen to preserve. Dr Barr argues in her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood that historical ignorance paved the way for evangelical support of women's oppression. She also contends that a lack of understanding about the broader cultural impact of these evangelical beliefs contributes to the continuation of oppressive structures even outside of the church. Historical amnesia comes at great cost for not only women in the church but also for human dignity. Dr Barr reflects on the cost of the subjugation of women within white evangelical spaces as well as why the reception of The Making of Biblical Womanhood gives her hope for a better future.

Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women's history, and church history. She is author of bestselling author The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Brazos Press, 2021). Barr is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on religious history, and has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, Religion News Service, The Dallas Morning News, Religion & Politics, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. Her work has been featured by NPR and The New Yorker. She is also a Baptist pastor's wife and the mom of two great kids.
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