{"id":38600,"date":"2018-05-09T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=38600"},"modified":"2018-05-09T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:55:14","slug":"baptist-insubordination-is-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2018\/05\/09\/baptist-insubordination-is-an-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptist insubordination is an oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Paige Patterson is almost unanimously revered and respected among Southern Baptists \u2014 albeit mainly because he has spent the past several decades purging the SBC of everyone who does not revere and respect him.<\/p>\n

His admirers would object to that sentence, insisting that Patterson earned his respect and his beloved status thanks to his role in leading the glorious \u201cconservative resurgence.\u201d But that\u2019s not actually an objection to what I said above, just a restatement of the same thing in different words.<\/p>\n

Alas, the same history and qualities that have made Patterson such a towering figure in the current incarnation of the SBC have also meant that he hath not \u201ca good report of them which are without.\u201d That\u2019s from the King James Version, from the qualifications for \u201cbishops\u201d described in 1 Timothy 3 (other translations render this \u201che must be well thought of by outsiders\u201d or \u201chave a good reputation among outsiders\u201d). Outsiders tend to recoil at Patterson\u2019s long history of statements and actions, especially his statements about and actions toward women.<\/p>\n

Beyond his loyal fan base within the Southern Baptist Church*, Patterson comes across as creepy and authoritarian \u2014 a man deserving of \u201creproach\u201d who hath fallen into \u201cthe snare of the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Pulliam Bailey summarizes this well in her recent report, \u201cSouthern Baptists grapple with a leader\u2019s comments encouraging women to stay with abusive husbands<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n

In sermons he gave between 2000 and 2014 that have been made public, Paige Patterson, seminary president and former denominational president, has encouraged women who are abused by their husbands not to divorce but to pray instead. He also commented in the sermons on female bodies, including that of a teenage girl, and women\u2019s appearances.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u00a0The firestorm began less than two weeks ago, when a site called the Baptist Blogger posted a video of Patterson\u2019s sermon from 2000, in which he told a story about a woman who told him she was being abused by her husband. He told her to pray, and she came back with two black eyes. \u201cShe said: \u2018I hope you\u2019re happy,'\u201d Patterson recalled in the sermon. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Yes \u2026 I\u2019m very happy,'\u201d because her husband had heard her prayers and come to church for the first time the next day.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Women have highlighted other comments Patterson has made, including one sermon in 2014 in which he described a 16-year-old girl walking by, saying that \u201cshe was nice.\u201d One young man commented, \u201cMan, is she built!\u201d Patterson said a woman scolded the young man, and Patterson said he responded, \u201cMa\u2019am, leave him alone. He\u2019s just being biblical.\u201d The audience laughed.<\/p>\n

In a 2013 sermon, Patterson suggested women who have had \u201ca problem in your home\u201d should not bring their case to a judge because it could get in the way of that judge becoming a Christian. \u201cSettle it within the church of God,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if you suffer for it, and if you were misused, and if you were abused, and if you\u2019re not represented properly, it\u2019s OK. You can trust it to the God who judges justly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u00a0Patterson criticized female seminary students for not doing enough to make themselves pretty, saying, \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be any wonder why some of you don\u2019t get a second look.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there\u2019s plenty more where that came from \u2014 both of the generally demeaning ickiness and of the dangerously hideous and callous garbage of urging abused women to \u201csubmit\u201d to their abusive husbands.<\/p>\n

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Paige Patterson is That Guy who is always telling women they\u2019d be pretty if they smiled more and maybe wore a little makeup. The guy who acts confused when women don\u2019t perceive \u201clittle ladies\u201d as a compliment. That Guy. Eww.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

None of this ugliness is particularly surprising given Patterson\u2019s history and the history of the very same \u201cconservative resurgence\u201d that he is credited\/blamed for leading:<\/p>\n

A former SBC president from 1998 to 2000, Patterson is a giant in the denomination, remembered for his his role in steering the denomination in a more conservative direction after some churches left in the late 1970s to form the more moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The offshoot allows women to be ordained as pastors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Patterson and the SBC refashioned after his image do not \u201callow\u201d women to serve as pastors. They do not \u201callow\u201d women to do much of anything, insisting on a \u201cbiblical\u201d hierarchy of gender roles that place men in authority over and above women.<\/p>\n

So the particularities of the recent \u201cfirestorm\u201d over Patterson\u2019s remarks aren\u2019t an aberration. They\u2019re an obvious, predictable, logical outcome of the patriarchal ideology Patterson has always championed within the SBC. Patterson\u2019s moist-lipped creepiness and his shrug-emoji indifference to abuse are baked into that and inseparable from it.<\/p>\n

Also baked into that ideology is the kind of thin-skinned authoritarian vindictiveness that Paige Patterson has long exhibited and embodied as a Southern Baptist bishop. Ed Stetzer discussed this in his recent column about the SBC\u2019s Patterson Problem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Patterson is one of the most significant leaders in SBC life, and one who does not often get criticized without the critic receiving significant backlash.<\/p>\n

I know this first hand.<\/p>\n

In 2008, I first\u00a0publicly criticized Southwestern\u00a0for the way certain faculty members were (repeatedly) registering disagreement with the results of our research. That day, several SBC leaders told me it was my last day as an SBC employee. As one son of an SBC entity head told me, \u201cNobody criticizes Paige Patterson and keeps their job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That vindictiveness is reflected throughout Sarah Pulliam Bailey\u2019s article: \u201cThe women who wrote the open letter say they tried first to speak to seminary trustees, but felt they had to make their concerns public to be taken seriously, said one woman who works for a high-ranking leader in a Southern Baptist organization and spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared her participation in organizing the letter could jeopardize her job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bizarro-world detail there is so subtle you might miss it on first reading. It\u2019s the reference to \u201ca high-ranking leader in a Southern Baptist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is Paige Patterson\u2019s ultimate legacy \u2014 transforming what was once a Baptist convention into a hierarchical denomination. He has replaced soul liberty \u2014 the one and basically only Baptist distinctive \u2014 with rank<\/em>. Nothing could be less Baptist<\/em>. This is the whole thing about Baptists \u2014 each of us chooses<\/em>, for ourselves, to be baptized. And no one else \u2014 no Pope or King or bishop or magistrate or seminary president \u2014 has any say in that matter.<\/p>\n

It ain\u2019t the full-immersion, it\u2019s the choosing<\/em>. That\u2019s what makes a Baptist a Baptist.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s what makes \u201chigh-ranking Baptist\u201d an oxymoron. The priesthood of all believers means exactly that: one rank, no hierarchy.<\/p>\n

This is why Paige Patterson is just about the least Baptist person imaginable. He sought to rule, and so he could not abide the inherent unruliness of Baptist polity. And so he transformed that polity, imposing hierarchy and structure and rank. That transformation was both the mechanism for and the substance of Patterson\u2019s \u201cconservative resurgence.\u201d It wasn\u2019t simply about the nominally \u201cconservative\u201d theology that Patterson et. al. sought to impose as the redefinition of Southern Baptist identity, but about their claiming the authority and creating the ability to impose and redefine it.<\/p>\n

After the \u201cconservative resurgence,\u201d Southern Baptists found they had rank. And Paige Patterson regards himself as one of the highest-ranking \u201cBaptists\u201d in those ranks. That\u2019s demonstrated, routinely, by his instinct to pull rank as a way of squashing dissent and criticism. This is illustrated in the final paragraph of Bailey\u2019s article:<\/p>\n

The seminary fired a PhD student from his $40,000-a-year job as the catering kitchen manager and took away his scholarship for tweeting about the Patterson debate, telling him that he was \u201cindiscreet\u201d and that his decision to speak publicly about the dispute \u201cdoes not exhibit conduct becoming a follower of Jesus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose the president of a seminary does \u201coutrank\u201d the kitchen manager, but this guy wasn\u2019t fired because of some catering mishap. He was fired for insubordination<\/em>. Patterson seems to think that as president of Southwestern \u201cBaptist\u201d Seminary, he outranks a mere student. That\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s wrong in the same way that it would be wrong for a five-star Army general to imagine that they outrank a civilian. Or for a Catholic cardinal to imagine that he outranks any given Baptist.<\/p>\n

Patterson is weirdly obsessed with insubordination, which is ridiculously un-Baptist or even anti-Baptist. \u201cSubordinate\u201d is not a category that any Baptist should recognize as legitimate. We are all, literally, ordinate<\/em>. The priesthood of all believers. Baptist insubordination is not a possibility except for those anti-Baptist authoritarians, like Paige Patterson, who imagine that it should be.<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n

* Referring to Baptist conventions as a single \u201cchurch\u201d used to be regarded as an epithet. It\u2019s a convention of freely associating congregations \u2014 not a \u201cchurch\u201d or a \u201cdenomination\u201d! But, hey, if it quacks like a hierarchical magisterium \u2026 Let\u2019s just call it what it is.<\/p>\n

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