Course is’ educational specific pleading’ for’ integrating of homosexuality,’ Catholic team leader says
A” Queer Bible” program at Wellesley College in Massachusetts “explores the social structure of gender…in the biblical earth.”
The program is an exercising “in self-serving revisionism”, C. J. Doyle, the executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, told The College Fix via email.
” Although founded in the 19th century by Evangelical Presbyterians, Wellesley College is now a liberal, historically conforming, post-Christian entity, which embraces homosexualist ideology”, he said.
Programs such as” Queer Bible” are” a kind of educational special praying, intended to influence social change and social revolution—in this situation, the introducing of homosexuality”, Doyle said.
Learners are unlikely to find” the indifferent pursuit of truth, scientific validity, and religious integrity” in such programs, he said.
He added that it is “improbable that for a class of Biblical understanding, if one can contact it that, may extend beyond the intellectual camp of the Woke Left.”
” Undoubtedly, it will not get a house in the ongoing development of a solid, standard Catholicism, nor in the belief systems of Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Evangelical Protestantism”, Doyle said.
The mainstream Christian churches, he told The Fix, are the main ones who are seeing a significant decline in membership, and are the religious groups most likely to adopt this revisionist view of traditional Christian morality.
He claimed that” Queer idea in Bible studies will continue to be a merely a reputable institution of scholarly thought as it is.”
Assistant Professor of Religion Eric Jarrard, who received his doctorate in Hebrew Bible from Harvard University, is teaching the program.
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The Fix received an email from The Fix to the Professor Jarrard, Wellesley’s press relations staff, and the university’s religious studies section to learn more about the course’s specifics and objectives half. Few responded.
According to the university, the course is” ]a ] n introduction to the Bible at the intersection of queer theory, biblical interpretation, and the historical study of the ancient Middle East”.
The course outline states that the program explores the cultural construction of gender and examines how people in the bible world and the ancient Middle East maintained and contested gender roles through an examination of gay readings of the bible canon and the canon of modern gay theory.
Additionally, it states that individuals will” consider the complex interaction between the categories of identity and sexual preference, as well as how contemporary expectations about “biological sex,” patriarchal structures, and the biblical earth impede our capacity to comprehend the biblical text, explore the experiential varieties of sex in the ancient earth, and appreciate the inherent otherness of identity.”
At Wellesley, Jarrard also teaches related courses, including a workshop titled” Decolonizing the Bible.” According to the course description,” this seminar considers…the Bible as a tool for decolonization by engaging biblical interpretation by marginalized groups ( womanist, mujerista, indigenous, and queer approaches )” . ,
Wellesley’s shared values, as stated on its site, include philosophical discovery and greatness, gender equality, diversity, equity, and participation, link and society, empowerment and social change, and integrity and intellectual freedom.  ,
The college’s mission is” To provide an excellent liberal arts education to women who will make a difference in the world”, and its “motto is Non Ministrari sed Ministrare —’Not to be ministered unto, but to minister.'”
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