Student’s paper marked down for describing God as male
From www.thecollegefix.com
2022-01-03 05:05:23
Kyle Schmidbauer – Montclair State University
Excerpt:
A student at a private Catholic university recently had her final paper marked down for referring to God as male and had to defend that choice in a revised version of the paper to get full credit.
Cecilia González-Andrieu, a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, cited the “male-gendered language for God repeatedly” as the reason for the docked points, according to a screenshot of the grading rubric obtained by The College Fix.
The student, who asks to remain anonymous, had emailed a response to her professor Dec. 19 voicing concern over the docked points.
“Your comment that I referred to God as a male, I should not have gotten any points off for that,” the student argued. “MULTIPLE times throughout the Bible God is referred to as a ‘he.’ I feel targeted by your comment, as I was raised in the church with the belief that…