Fragile dignity : intercontextual conversations on scriptures, family, and violence / edited by L. Juliana Claassens and Klaas Spronk.
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 digni...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta :
Society of Biblical Literature,
[2013]
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| Series: | Semeia studies ;
no. 72. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "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. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781589838963 1589838963 1589838955 9781589838956 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |