Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1-Hermeneutical Framework -- The Hermeneutics of Dignity -- A Response to Frits de Lange's "The Hermeneutics of Dignity" -- Figuring God and Humankind: The Imago Dei in View of Anthropologies in the Old Testament -- A Response to Hendrik Bosman's "Figuring God and Humankind: The Imago Dei in View of Anthropologies in the Old Testament" -- The Givenness of Human Dignity: A Response to the Essays of Frits de Lange and Hendrik Bosman -- Part 2-Engaging the Text -- A True Disgrace? The Representation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations and in J. M. Coetzee's Novel Disgrace -- A Response to Julie Claassens's "A True Disgrace? The Representation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations and in J. M. Coetzee's Novel Disgrace" -- Birth as Creation under Threat? Biblical-Theological Reflections on Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- A Response to Dorothea Eberle-Küster's "Birth as Creation under Threat? Biblical-Theological Reflections on Assisted Reproductive Technologies" -- Human Dignity, Families, and Violence: The New Testament as Resource? -- A Response to Jeremy Punt's "Human Dignity, Families, and Violence: The New Testament as Resource?" -- A Fragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversation on Scripture, Family, and Violence (On the Essays of Juliana Claassens, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, and Jeremy Punt) -- Part 3-Engaging the Context -- Dignity in the Family? Analyzing our Ambiguous Relationship to the Family and Theological Suggestions toward Overcoming It -- A Response to Petruschka Schaafsma's "Dignity in the Family? Analyzing Our Ambiguous Relationship to the Family and Theological Suggestions toward Overcoming It" -- Empowering Those Who Suffer Domestic Violence: The Necessity of Different Theological Imagery. A Response to Anne-Claire Mulder's "Empowering Those Who Suffer Domestic Violence: The Necessity of a Different Theological Imagery" -- Family and its Discontents: On the Essays of Petruschka Schaafsma and Anne-Claire Mulder -- Missing Links in Mainline Churches: Biblical Life Stories and Their Claims in Today's Family Preaching -- A Response to Ciska Stark's "Missing Links in Mainline Churches: Biblical Life Stories and Their Claims in Today's Family Preaching" -- "Household" (Dis)loyalties and Violence in Judges 14 and 15: Dignity of Gendered and Religious "Others" in a Dialogical Theological Praxis -- A Response to Lee-Ann J. Simon and D. Xolile Simon's " 'Household' (Dis)loyalites and Violence in Judges 14 and 15: Dignity of Gendered and Religious 'Others' in a Dialogical Theological Praxis" -- Honor in the Bible and the Qur'an -- A Response to Gé Speelman's "Honor in the Bible and Qur'an" -- Fragile Dignity: Family, Honor, Scripture (On the Essays of Ciska Stark, D. Xolile Simon and Lee-Ann J. Simon, and Gé Speelman) -- Reflections on Reflections: Rights, In/Dignity, In/Equality, Faith-The Bible as Universal Medicine? -- Contributors.
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Dignity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Life -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Family violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Families -- Biblical teaching. Church work with families.