Violence Against Women and Children : A Christian Theological Sourcebook

by Adams, Carol J.; Fortune, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780826408303
• ISBN10: 0826408303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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