A professor at a Catholic university docked a student’s grade for repeatedly referring to God with masculine language — in contradiction to the Catholic church’s documents and the Bible.
The College Fix reported that Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, harshly graded a student’s paper for using “male-gendered language for God repeatedly.”
The student, whose identity was kept anonymous, said the grade was wrong and emailed Gonzalez-Andrieu, saying, “Your comment that I referred to God as a male, I should not have gotten any points off for that.”
“MULTIPLE times throughout the Bible God is referred to as a ‘he,’” the student wrote to the professor in an email obtained by the College Fix. “I feel targeted by your comment, as I was raised in the church with the belief that God is a male.”
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The College Fix reported that Gonzalez-Andrieu offered the student the opportunity to “resubmit your paper and add a footnote stating your reasons as a scholar to opt to preserve male language for God.”
Chad Pecknold, a professor of systematic theology at that Catholic University of America, told the Washington Examiner that theology departments that employ professors like Gonzalez-Andrieu “are staffed by those who believe that our talk about God is nothing other than talk about ourselves.”
“Instead of teaching students how we use words drawn from our experience of created effects to refer analogically to their uncreated cause, and instead of teaching students to depend on divine revelation for our knowledge of God, the woke religion can only abide by a god fit to their own purposes, which is to say that they aren’t even teaching students about God at all,” Pecknold told the Washington Examiner.
Pecknold pointed the Washington Examiner to an October article he authored for the journal First Things titled, “Why We Call God Our Father,” in which he wrote that in calling God “father” and using masculine language, “we are not saying that God is like a human father, but rather that human fathers are like God.”
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“The most proper name for God is revealed by Jesus Christ, who in the most intimate way calls God ‘Father’ and teaches his disciples to address God as ‘our Father,’ too,” Pecknold wrote.
