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PLACES WHERE EVANGELICAL

FEMINISM ALREADY HAS

MUCH INFLUENCE

As I look at the churches and parachurch organizations in the evangelical

world in the United States today I see several organizations where an evan-
gelical feminist position is the dominant position and in some cases the only
position allowed to be advocated in the organization.^1 It is those institu-
tions that I hope will turn back from the direction in which they are headed.
Among colleges, the evangelical feminist position is the dominant
position at Wheaton College, Azusa Pacific University, and several other
Christian colleges.
Among seminaries, evangelical feminism is the only position
allowed at Fuller Seminary, and it is strongly represented on the faculty
at Denver Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Bethel Seminary,
Asbury Seminary, and Regent College–Vancouver. Even among semi-
naries that are committed to a complementarian position, some have
begun hiring women to teach Bible and theology classes to men, argu-
ing that “we are not a church” (see discussion in chapter 11 above).^2 But

(^1) For more information on these organizations, see Grudem, Evangelical Feminism and Biblical
Truth (Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 2004), 521-524.
(^2) For example, Dallas Theological Seminary has one woman faculty member, Dorian Coover-
Cox, who teaches Old Testament. Reformed Theological Seminary–Orlando in the spring of
2006 had a woman, Carolyn Custis James (wife of seminary president Frank James) teach an
Old Testament class on the book of Ruth for both men and women (see www2.rts.edu/new-
sevents/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=790, accessed Feb. 20, 2006). I am thankful for the excel-
lent ministries of these seminaries over many years, and they are still predominantly
complementarian, and I still recommend them to students. However, I differ with this policy,
for the reasons I explain in chapter 11 above.