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Fragile Dignity : Intercontextual Conversations on Scriptures, Family, and Violence
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claassens, L. Juliana.
- Series:
- Semeia Studies
- Semeia Studies ; v.72
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church work with families.
- Dignity--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Families--Biblical teaching.
- Family violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Life--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Dignity--Christianity--Religious aspects.
- Dignity.
- Life.
- Violence--Christianity--Religious aspects.
- Violence.
- Family violence--Biblical teaching.
- Family violence.
- Families.
- Local Subjects:
- Church work with families.
- Dignity--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Families--Biblical teaching.
- Family violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Life--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These essays, based on collaboration between two Dutch and South African theological schools, consider the concept of human dignity. Reflecting on both theoretical aspects and social ramifications, they explore how families and society fail to protect human life and dignity.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1�Hermeneutical Framework""; ""The Hermeneutics of Dignity""; ""A Response to Frits de Lange's “The Hermeneutics of Dignity� ""; ""Figuring God and Humankind: The Imago Dei in View of Anthropologies in the Old Testament""; ""A Response to Hendrik Bosman's “Figuring God and Humankind: The Imago Dei in View of Anthropologies in the Old Testament�""; ""The Givenness of Human Dignity: A Response to the Essays of Frits de Lange and Hendrik Bosman""; ""Part 2�Engaging the Text""
- ""A True Disgrace? The Representation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations and in J. M. Coetzeeâ€?s Novel Disgrace""""A Response to Julie Claassens's “A True Disgrace? The Representation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations and in J. M. Coetzeeâ€?s Novel Disgraceâ€?""; ""Birth as Creation under Threat? Biblical-Theological Reflections on Assisted Reproductive Technologies""; ""A Response to Dorothea Eberle-KuÌ?ster's “Birth as Creation under Threat? Biblical-Theological Reflections on Assisted Reproductive Technologiesâ€?""
- ""Human Dignity, Families, and Violence: The New Testament as Resource?""""A Response to Jeremy Punt's “Human Dignity, Families, and Violence: The New Testament as Resource?â€?""; ""A Fragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversation on Scripture, Family, and Violence (On the Essays of Juliana Claassens, Dorothea Erbele-KuÌ?ster, and Jeremy Punt)""; ""Part 3â€?Engaging the Context""; ""Dignity in the Family? Analyzing our Ambiguous Relationship to the Family and Theological Suggestions toward Overcoming It""
- ""A Response to Petruschka Schaafsma�s “Dignity in the Family? Analyzing Our Ambiguous Relationship to the Family and Theological Suggestions toward Overcoming It�""""Empowering Those Who Suffer Domestic Violence: The Necessity of Different Theological Imagery ""; ""A Response to Anne-Claire Mulder�s “Empowering Those Who Suffer Domestic Violence: The Necessity of a Different Theological Imagery�""; ""Family and its Discontents: On the Essays of Petruschka Schaafsma and Anne-Claire Mulder""
- ""Missing Links in Mainline Churches: Biblical Life Stories and Their Claims in Today�s Family Preaching""""A Response to Ciska Stark�s “Missing Links in Mainline Churches: Biblical Life Stories and Their Claims in Today�s Family Preaching�""; ""“Household� (Dis)loyalties and Violence in Judges 14 and 15: Dignity of Gendered and Religious “Others� in a Dialogical Theological Praxis""
- ""A Response to Lee-Ann J. Simon and D. Xolile Simon�s “ �Household� (Dis)loyalites and Violence in Judges 14 and 15: Dignity of Gendered and Religious �Others� in a Dialogical Theological Praxis�""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-895-5
- 1-58983-896-3
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