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Changed imagination, changed obedience : social change, social imagination, and the bent-over woman in the gospel of Luke / Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon.
Van Pelt Library BS2595.52 .H68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houghtby-Haddon, Natalie K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Luke XIII, 10-17--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Luke--Socio-rhetorical criticism.
- Bible. Acts--Socio-rhetorical criticism.
- Bible. Acts.
- Bible. Luke.
- Healing of the bent-over woman (Miracle).
- Social change.
- Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2011]
- Summary:
- In this work, Houghtby-Haddon takes a new look at an old text, using the theory of social imagination as an exegetic guide. In her exploration of the bent-over woman story in Luke 13:10-17, Houghtby-Haddon uncovers clues suggesting that this story is a key interpretive text for seeing Luke's social vision for his community at work. Exploring mythic, social, communal, and cultural elements beneath the surface of the story, Houghtby-Haddon suggests that the bent-over woman is the embodiment of Jesus' claim in the synagogue of Nazareth that "today, these Scriptures are fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:16-21), and that the woman prefigures the post-Pentecostal community that will gather in Jesus' name. The author concludes by taking the theory from the gospel of Luke to the streets to see how a contemporary neighborhood group might use the social imagination model, and the new reading of the story of the bent-over woman, to imagine a twenty-first-century social vision for its own community: a vision that more fully embodies the just community Jesus proclaims in Nazareth.
- Contents:
- Myths and worlds : the stuff of social change
- Daughter of Abraham established forever : the mythic and culture worlds of the bent-over woman
- Bent over and bound no longer : the society and culture worlds of the bent-over woman
- Words made flesh : the bent-over woman as metaphor in the communal world of Luke-Acts
- Weaving the tapestry of social imagination today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1608996751
- 9781608996759
- OCLC:
- 723451095
- Publisher Number:
- 99943843784
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