Violence Against Women and Children : A

Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions. It cuts across all economic strata and is found in our urban centers and the farthest corners of the nation. This is the only sourcebook on domestic violence for clergy and counselors.

Preface

9

(5)

Acknowledgments

14

(1)

Part I: Theological Foundations

Toward a Feminist Theology of Religion and the State

15

(21)

Carol J. Adams

For God So Loved the World?

36

(24)

Joanne Carlson Brown

Rebecca Parker

Washed in the Grace of God

60

(11)

Emilie M. Townes

Ending Innocence and Nurturing Willfulness

71

(14)

Rita Nakashima Brock

The Transformation of Suffering: A Biblical and Theological Perspective

85

(7)

Marie M. Fortune

Part II: Reconsidering Biblical Concepts

Reading Adam and Eve: Re-Visions of the Myth of Woman's Subordination to Man

92

(29)

Charles Ess

Structures of Forgiveness in the New Testament

121

(14)

Frederick W. Keene

Let's Look Again at the Biblical Concept of Submission

135

(6)

Catherine Clark Kroeger

The Gerasene Demoniac and the Sexually Violated

141

(10)

Peter Horsfield

Part III: Ethical Appraisals

Bringing Justice Home: The Challenge of the Battered Women's Movement for Christian Social Ethics

151

(21)

Sarah Bentley

Moral Agency of Women in a Battered Women's Shelter

172

(13)

Allison Mauel Moore

``Swing Low, Sweet Chariot!'': A Womanist Response to Sexual Violence and Abuse

185

(16)

Toinette M. Eugene

Forgiveness: The Last Step

201

(6)

Marie M. Fortune

Part IV: Historical Revisioning

Augustine on Rape: One Chapter in the Theological Tradition

207

(35)

Mary Pellauer

Historical Theology and Violence against Women: Unearthing a Popular Tradition of Just Battery

242

(20)

Mary Potter Engel

The Power to See and the Power to Name: American Church History and the Problem of Domestic Violence

262

(17)

Ann Taves

The Imperishable Virginity of Saint Maria Goretti

279

(8)

Kathleen Zuanich Young

Prophetic or Followers? The United Church of Canada, Gender, Sexuality, and Violence against Women

287

(27)

Tracy Trothen

Part V: Contemporary Revisioning

When the Mountain Won't Move

314

(14)

Linda H. Hollies

Seduced by Faith: Sexual Traumas and Their Embodied Effects

328

(11)

Jennifer L. Manlowe

Born Again, Free from Sin?: Sexual Violence in Evangelical Communities

339

(12)

Andy Smith

Is Nothing Sacred? The Betrayal of the Ministerial or Teaching Relationship

351

(10)

Marie M. Fortune

Taking Sides against Ourselves

361

(7)

Rosemary L. Bray

The Difference Race Makes: Sexual Harassment and the Law in the Thomas--Hill Hearings

368

(9)

Karen Baker-Fletcher

Christian Conquest and the Sexual Colonization of Native Women

377

(27)

Andy Smith

Healing in Communities Following an Experience of Mission as Oppression

404

(8)

Stan McKay

Part VI: The Contemporary Church---Pastoral Ministry, Liturgical Issues, and Theological Education

Church Response to Domestic Violence

412

(10)

John M. Johnson

Revisiting the 1982 Church Response Survey

422

(6)

John M. Johnson

Denise M. Bondurant

``Reorganizing Victimization'': The Intersection between Liturgy and Domestic Violence

428

(16)

Marjorie Procter-Smith

Saving the Family: When Is the Covenant Broken?

444

(7)

Mitzi N. Eilts

Calling to Accountability: The Church's Response to Abusers

451

(13)

Marie M. Fortune

James Poling

The Whole Loaf: Holy Communion and Survival

464

(15)

Marjorie Procter-Smith

Hope Lies in ``The Struggle Against It'': Co-teaching a Seminary Course on Domestic Violence and Theology

479

(23)

Marvin M. Ellison

Kristina B. Hewey

Epilogue

502

(3)

Marie M. Fortune

Carol J. Adams

Appendix. About the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence

505

(3)

Essential Readings

508

(2)

Notes on Contributors

510

(4)

Copyright Acknowledgments

514

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