Author Description

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-Køster --Birth as creation under threat. Biblical-theological reflections on assisted reproductive technologies /Dorothea Erbele-Køster --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 todaýs 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 /Gø 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.