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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Claassens, L. Juliana M., 1972-

Spronk, Klaas.

Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 72.

Semeia studies / Society of Biblical Literature ; number 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dignity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Dignity.

Life--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Life.

Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Violence.

Family violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Family violence.

Families--Biblical teaching.

Families.

Church work with families.

Violence in the Bible.

Physical Description:

vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]

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.

Contents:

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589838956

1589838955

9781589838970

1589838971

OCLC:

849510073