Violence against Women and Children: a Christian Theological Sourcebook

(New York: Continuum, 1995)

Edited with Marie M. Fortune, this anthology, has been called a "must read." One reviewer said, "If you read only one book [this year], let it be this one."

Table of Contents:

Part I: Theological Foundations

• Toward a Feminist Theology of Religion and the State, by Carol J. Adams

• For God So Loved the World?, by Joanne Carlson Brown and Rebecca Parker

• Ending Innocence and Nurturing Willfulness, by Rita Nakashima Brock

• The Transformation of Suffering: A Biblical and Theological Perspective, by Marie Fortune

Part II: Reconsidering Biblical Concepts

• Reading Adam and Eve: Re-Visions of the Myth of Woman's Subordination, by Charles Ess

• Structures of Forgiveness in the New Testament, by Frederick W. Keene

• Let's Look Again at the Biblical Concept of Submission, by Catherine Clark Kroeger

• The Gerasene Demoniac and the Sexually Violated, by Peter Horsfield

Part III: Ethical Appraisals

• Bringing Justice Home: The Challenge of the Battered Women's for Christian Social Ethics, by Sarah Bentley

• Moral Agency of Women in a Battered Women's Shelter b, y Allison Manuel Moore

• "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot!': A Womanist Response to Sexual Violence and Abuse, by Toinette M. Eugene

• Forgiveness: The Last Step , by Marie M. Fortune

Part IV: Historical Revisioning

• Augustine on Rape: One Chapter in the Theological Tradition, by Mary Pellauer

• Historical Theology and Violence Against Women: Unearthing a Popular Tradition of Just Battery, by Mary Potter Engle

• The Power to See and the Power to Name; American Church History and the Problem of Domestic Violence, by Ann Taves

• The Imperishable Virginity of Saint Maria Goretti, by Kathleen Zuanich Young

• Prophetic or Followers? The United Church of Canada, Gender, Sexuality and Violence Against Women, by Tracy Trothen

Part V: Contemporary Revisioning

• When the Mountain Won't Move, by Linda H. Hollies

• Seduced by Faith: Sexual Traumas and Their Embodied Effects, by Jennifer L. Manlowe

• Born Again, Free from Sin?: Sexual Violence in Evangelical Communities, by Andy Smith

• Is Nothing Sacred? The Betrayal of the Ministerial or Teaching Relationship, by Marie M. Fortune

• Taking Sides Against Ourselves, by Rosemary L. Bray

• The Difference Race Makes: Sexual Harassment and the Law in the Thomas-Hill Hearings, by Karen Baker-Fletcher

• Christian Conquest and the Sexual Colonization of Native Women b, y Andy Smith

• Healing in Communities Following an Experience of Mission as Oppression, By Stan McKay

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

• Church Response to Domestic Violence, by John M. Johnson and Denise M. Bondurant

• Revisiting the 1982 Church Response Survey, by John M. Johnson and Denise M. Bondurant

• "Reorganizing Victimization": The Intersection between Liturgy and Domestic Violence, by Marjorie Procter-Smith

• Saving the Family: When is the Covenant Broken?, Mitzi N. Eilts

• Calling to Accountability: The Church's Responses 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, By Marvin M. Ellison and Kristina B. Hewey