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

"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 bibliographies.

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�ster -- Birth as creation under threat . Biblical-theological reflections on assisted reproductive technologies / Dorothea Erbele-K�ster -- 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�ys 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� 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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