Violence Against Women and Children : A Christian Theological Sourcebook

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Pub. Date: 1995-11-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions. It cuts across all economic strata and is found in our urban centers and the farthest corners of the nation. This is the only sourcebook on domestic violence for clergy and counselors.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(5)
Acknowledgments 14(1)
Part I: Theological Foundations
Toward a Feminist Theology of Religion and the State
15(21)
Carol J. Adams
For God So Loved the World?
36(24)
Joanne Carlson Brown
Rebecca Parker
Washed in the Grace of God
60(11)
Emilie M. Townes
Ending Innocence and Nurturing Willfulness
71(14)
Rita Nakashima Brock
The Transformation of Suffering: A Biblical and Theological Perspective
85(7)
Marie M. Fortune
Part II: Reconsidering Biblical Concepts
Reading Adam and Eve: Re-Visions of the Myth of Woman's Subordination to Man
92(29)
Charles Ess
Structures of Forgiveness in the New Testament
121(14)
Frederick W. Keene
Let's Look Again at the Biblical Concept of Submission
135(6)
Catherine Clark Kroeger
The Gerasene Demoniac and the Sexually Violated
141(10)
Peter Horsfield
Part III: Ethical Appraisals
Bringing Justice Home: The Challenge of the Battered Women's Movement for Christian Social Ethics
151(21)
Sarah Bentley
Moral Agency of Women in a Battered Women's Shelter
172(13)
Allison Mauel Moore
``Swing Low, Sweet Chariot!'': A Womanist Response to Sexual Violence and Abuse
185(16)
Toinette M. Eugene
Forgiveness: The Last Step
201(6)
Marie M. Fortune
Part IV: Historical Revisioning
Augustine on Rape: One Chapter in the Theological Tradition
207(35)
Mary Pellauer
Historical Theology and Violence against Women: Unearthing a Popular Tradition of Just Battery
242(20)
Mary Potter Engel
The Power to See and the Power to Name: American Church History and the Problem of Domestic Violence
262(17)
Ann Taves
The Imperishable Virginity of Saint Maria Goretti
279(8)
Kathleen Zuanich Young
Prophetic or Followers? The United Church of Canada, Gender, Sexuality, and Violence against Women
287(27)
Tracy Trothen
Part V: Contemporary Revisioning
When the Mountain Won't Move
314(14)
Linda H. Hollies
Seduced by Faith: Sexual Traumas and Their Embodied Effects
328(11)
Jennifer L. Manlowe
Born Again, Free from Sin?: Sexual Violence in Evangelical Communities
339(12)
Andy Smith
Is Nothing Sacred? The Betrayal of the Ministerial or Teaching Relationship
351(10)
Marie M. Fortune
Taking Sides against Ourselves
361(7)
Rosemary L. Bray
The Difference Race Makes: Sexual Harassment and the Law in the Thomas--Hill Hearings
368(9)
Karen Baker-Fletcher
Christian Conquest and the Sexual Colonization of Native Women
377(27)
Andy Smith
Healing in Communities Following an Experience of Mission as Oppression
404(8)
Stan McKay
Part VI: The Contemporary Church---Pastoral Ministry, Liturgical Issues, and Theological Education
Church Response to Domestic Violence
412(10)
John M. Johnson
Revisiting the 1982 Church Response Survey
422(6)
John M. Johnson
Denise M. Bondurant
``Reorganizing Victimization'': The Intersection between Liturgy and Domestic Violence
428(16)
Marjorie Procter-Smith
Saving the Family: When Is the Covenant Broken?
444(7)
Mitzi N. Eilts
Calling to Accountability: The Church's Response to Abusers
451(13)
Marie M. Fortune
James Poling
The Whole Loaf: Holy Communion and Survival
464(15)
Marjorie Procter-Smith
Hope Lies in ``The Struggle Against It'': Co-teaching a Seminary Course on Domestic Violence and Theology
479(23)
Marvin M. Ellison
Kristina B. Hewey
Epilogue 502(3)
Marie M. Fortune
Carol J. Adams
Appendix. About the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence 505(3)
Essential Readings 508(2)
Notes on Contributors 510(4)
Copyright Acknowledgments 514

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