Southern Baptist teacher: Beaten By Your Husband? It’s Your Fault

By Eric on June 30, 2008

Southern Baptist scholar Bruce Ware says that spousal abuse only occurs when the wife refuses to submit to her husband’s God-given authority:

Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said women desire to have their own way instead of submitting to their husbands because of sin.

“And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged–or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches,” Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.

Tags: Bruce Ware, domestic violence, Southern Baptist

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1. Sorry, but if you listen to the audio, that’s not really what this guy is saying. He’s saying that one possible response of husbands to a wife’s lack of “submission” is that he abuse her, and that’s only because he’s a “sinner.” Clearly, whatever may be Ware’s faults, he is not saying that lack of “submission” is when “spousal abuse only occurs.” The accusation actually seems a little irresponsible.

   —Paul on July 6, 2008 at 11:00 pm