TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claassens,L.Juliana M.
AU  - Spronk,Klaas
TI  - Fragile dignity: intercontextual conversations on scriptures, family, and violence 
T2  - Semeia studies / Society of Biblical Literature
SN  - 9781589838956 (paper binding : alk. paper)
U1  - 248.4 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature
KW  - Dignity
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Life
KW  - Violence
KW  - Family violence
KW  - Families
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Church work with families
N1  - "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; 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-K©ıster --; Birth as creation under threat . Biblical-theological reflections on assisted reproductive technologies; Dorothea Erbele-K©ıster --; 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 toda©ưs 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; G©ı 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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