BOLIVAR, MO. — Southwest Baptist University is requiring all theology and ministry professors to affirm their commitment to traditional views on gender and sexuality and to biblical inerrancy.
Professors as SBU’s Courts Redford College of Theology and Ministry already affirm the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 — the confessional statement of the Southern Baptist Convention. This new requirement will involve three additional statements: the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, the Danvers Statement, and the Nashville Statement. The latter two were produced by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
The move to affirm these statements marks a turning point in what has been a controversial couple years at the school.
SBU joins a long list of institutions and conventions to have adopted the CBMW statements as faithful articulations of biblical convictions on gender and sexuality. That list includes other academic institutions such as Southern Seminary, Midwestern Seminary, Cedarville University, and Union University. Denominational entities like the Southern Baptist Convention and the Presbyterian Church in America — along with some state conventions — have officially appropriated language from or commended the Nashville Statement in their annual meetings.
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