515 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Toward a feminist theology of religion and the state / Carol J. Adams -- For God so loved the world? / Joanne Carlson Brown and Rebecca Parker -- Washed in the grace of God / Emilie M. Townes -- Ending innocence and nurturing willfulness / Rita Nakashima Brock -- The transformation of suffering : a biblical and theological perspective / Marie M. Fortune -- Reading Adam and Eve : re-visions of the myth of woman's subordination to man / Charles Ess -- Structures of forgiveness in the New Testament / Frederick W. Keene -- Let's look again at the biblical concept of submission / Catherine Clark Kroeger --The Gerasene demoniac and the sexually violated / Peter Horsfield -- Bringing justice home : the challenge of the battered women's movement for Christian social ethics / Sarah Bentley -- Moral agency of women in a battered women's shelter / Allison Mauel Moore --

"Swing low, sweet chariot!" : a womanist response to sexual violence and abuse / Toinette M. Eugene -- Forgiveness : the last step / Marie M. Fortune -- Augustine on rape : one chapter in the theological tradition / Mary Pellauer -- Historical theology and violence against women : unearthing a popular tradition of just battery / Mary Potter Engel -- The power to see and the power to name : American church history and the problem of domestic violence / Ann Taves -- The imperishable virginity of Saint Maria Goretti / Kathleen Zuanich Young -- Prophetic or followers? The United Church of Canada, gender, sexuality, and violence against women / Tracy Trothen -- When the mountain won't move / Linda H. Hollies -- Seduced by faith : sexual traumas and their embodied effects / Jennifer L. Manlowe -- Born again, free from sin? Sexual violence in evangelical communities / Andy Smith -- Is nothing sacred? The betrayal of the ministerial or teaching relationship / Marie M. Fortune -- Taking sides against ourselves / Rosemary L. Bray -- The difference race makes : sexual harassment and the law in the Thomas-Hill hearings / Karen Baker-Fletcher -- Christian conquest and the sexual colonization of native women / Andy Smith -- Healing in communities following an experience of mission as oppression / Stan McKay --Church response to domestic violence / John M. Johnson -- Revisiting the 1982 church response survey / John M. Johnson and Denise M. Bondurant -- "Reorganizing victimization" : the intersection between liturgy and domestic violence / Marjorie Procter-Smith -- Saving the family : when is the covenant broken? / Mitzi N. Eilts -- Calling to accountability : the church's response to abusers / Marie M. Fortune and James Poling -- The whole loaf : Holy Communion and survival / Marjorie Procter-Smith -- Hope lies in "the struggle against it" : co-teaching a seminary course on

domestic violence and theology / Marvin M. Ellison and Kristina B. Hewey -- Epilogue / Marie M. Fortune and Carol J. Adams.

Women -- Crimes against -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Children -- Crimes against -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Feminist theology.

Adams, Carol J.

Fortune, Marie M.

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