Reimagining Theologies of Marriage in Contexts of Domestic Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reimagining Theologies of Marriage in Contexts of Domestic Violence write by Rachel Starr. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Reimagining Theologies of Marriage in Contexts of Domestic Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Domestic violence is a significant threat to women’s survival. But Christian understandings of marriage often prevent women from resisting abusive relationships. Can the Church’s teaching on marriage be reshaped so that it helps women to survive, rather than encourage them to submit to their husband, bear their cross, or sacrifice themselves for the sake of their marriage? Focusing on everyday practices of marriage in two very different contexts: Argentina and England, Reimagining Theologies of Marriage in Contexts of Domestic Violence considers how Christian understandings of marriage as a covenant or sacrament relate to the lived experience of marriage. Drawing on Augustine’s notion of the goods of marriage, and on belief in the saving power of marriage, this book suggests that only when the wellbeing of bodies is central to a marriage can it have the power to save.
Feminist Trauma Theologies
Feminist Trauma Theologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Trauma Theologies write by Karen O'Donnell. This book was released on 2020-02-28. Feminist Trauma Theologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from a diverse team of scholars, Feminist Trauma Theologies is an essential resource for all thinkers and practitioners who are trying to navigate the current conversations around theology, suffering, and feminism.
Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vile Bodies write by Adrian Thatcher. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Vile Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.
Marriage, Bible, Violence
Marriage, Bible, Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marriage, Bible, Violence write by Saima Afzal. This book was released on 2023-10-01. Marriage, Bible, Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on both biblical studies scholarship and practitioner experience, this book explores the disjuncture between complementarian accounts of biblical marriage and intersections of marriage and violence in texts from Jewish and Christian Scriptures. This volume challenges authoritative complementarian claims to the Bible’s allegedly clear and unequivocal directions on marriage. It refutes these claims with analysis of the muddled and often violent depictions of marriage in the Bible itself. Regular reminders show why such an exploration matters: that is, because recourse to the authority and ‘plain meaning’ of the Bible has had and continues to have impact on real people’s lives. Sometimes, this impact is violent and traumatic, notably when the Bible is weaponised to justify intimate partner violence. This book explores a wide range of biblical texts and interpretations. Particular focus is placed on the influential pronouncements on ‘biblical marriage’ by the US Family Research Council and Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Textual analysis includes close focus on Genesis 1–3, Malachi 2, and Ephesians 5. This book will appeal to students of biblical studies and theology, as well as anyone interested in research-based activism and in how sacred texts are directed towards modern day-to-day life. It investigates ‘marriage’, ‘the Bible’ and ‘violence’, all of which play significant roles in public discourses and popular culture.
Gender, Violence, and Justice
Gender, Violence, and Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Violence, and Justice write by Pamela Cooper-White. This book was released on 2019-03-20. Gender, Violence, and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women and pastoral theology. It represents over three decades of research, advocacy, and pastoral theological reflection on the subject of sexual and domestic violence. Topics include intimate partner violence, sexual abuse and trauma, and clergy sexual misconduct; controversial theological issues such as forgiveness; and, as well, positive frameworks for fostering well-being in families, church, and society. Framed by a foreword and an introduction that place this work in the context of new and contemporary challenges in theory and practice, these essays show an evolution of issues and frameworks for theology, care, and activism arising over time from the movement to end violence against women (both within and beyond religious communities)—while at the same time demonstrating an unchanging core commitment to gender justice.
