Fragile dignity: intercontextual conversations on scriptures, family, and violence

by Claassens, L. Juliana M. Spronk, Klaas

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Full title :Fragile dignity : intercontextual conversations on scriptures, family, and violence / edited by L. Juliana Claassens and Klaas Spronk.

Summary

Introduction /Julie Claassens and Klaas Spronk --The hermeneutics of dignity /Frits de Lange --Response /Gerrit Brand --Figuring God and humankind : the imago Dei in view of anthropologies in the Old Testament /Hendrik Bosman --Response /Klaas Spronk --External response: The givenness of human dignity /Beverley E. Mitchell --A true disgrace? the representation of violence against women in the Book of Lamentations and in J.M. coetzee's novel Disgrace /L. Juliana M. Claassens --Response /Dorothea Erbele-Køster --Birth as creation under threat . Biblical-theological reflections on assisted reproductive technologies /Dorothea Erbele-Køster --Response /Charlene van der Walt --Human dignity, families and violence : the New Testament as resource? /Jeremey Punt --Response /Magda Misset-van de Weg --External response: A fragile dignity : intercontextual conversation on scripture, family and violence /Elsa Tamez --Dignity in the family? Analyzing our ambiguous relationship to the family and theological suggestions towards overcoming it /Petruschka Schaafsma --Response /Robert Vosloo --Empowering those who suffer domestic violence : the necessity of a different theological imagery /Anne-Claire Mulder --Response /Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel --External response: Family and its discontents /Cheryl B. Anderson --Missing links in mainline churches : Biblical life stories and their claim in todaýs family preaching /Ciska Stark --Response /Ian Nell --"Household" (dis)loyalties and violence in Judges 14 and 15 : dignity of gendered and religious "others" in a dialogical theological praxis /D. Xolile Simon and Lee-Ann J. Simon --Response /Leo Koffeman --Women and honor in Bible and Qur'an /Gø Speelman --Response /Yusuf Wagid --External response: Fragile dignity : family, honor, scripture /Monica J. Melanchton --Reflections on reflections : rights, in/dignity, in/equality, faith; the Bible as universal medicine? /Athalya Brenner

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Society of Biblical Literature
Place of Publication:Atlanta
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

Notes

"The collection of essays is the result of the collaboration between the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, Netherlands and the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa"--Introduction

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781589838963, 1589838963, 1589838955, 9781589838956
oclc:ocn868915877
LC Classification:BV4647.D5
Dewey Decimal:248.4

Subjects

Church work with families Dignité -- Aspect religieux Dignity -- Religious aspects Familie Families -- Biblical teaching Familles -- Enseignement biblique Family violence -- Religious aspects Gewalttätigkeit Life -- Religious aspects Menschenwürde Pastorale familiale RELIGION -- Biblical Studies RELIGION -- Christian Life Theologische Ethik Violence -- Aspect religieux Violence -- Religious aspects