Cleophus larue biography

Growing up in the church, “I didn’t sense that women were oppressed,” author and seminary professor Cleophus J. LaRue admitted. The Baptist church he attended was made up of 75% women, and they served in many leadership positions.

Women taught Sunday school and headed up the missionary society and Baptist training union.

Cleophus J. LaRue is the Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Cleophus J. LaRue is the Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Cleophus J. LaRue is the Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Biography.

LaRue is Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

LaRue, 70, grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, emulating the pastors of the National Baptist Convention whose preaching and kindness reached his.

LaRue even learned the foundations of Christian faith from a woman in his church who was the matron of the usher board on which he served. He realized these women were gifted individuals, and his exposure to earnest women doing the work of the Lord stayed with him.

But he understood and accepted that they could not ascend to the pulpit; in the congregation where he came to faith, it was known to be absolutely unacceptable for a woman to claim that she had been called by God to preach. 

When LaRue was a young pastor, he was invited to sit on a scholarship committee in Texas.

LaRue took his prejudice against women preachers