“When Jesus saw her . . .”: A hermeneutical response to #MeToo and #ChurchToo
This article provides an example of how Scripture can be a source of healing for #ChurchToo victims. Although the Bible has been used to oppress women and fuel sexual assault and abuse, as in many complementarian readings of Scripture, it more often works against systems of oppression and lifts the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Review and expositor
Year: 2020, Volume: 117, Issue: 2, Pages: 288-297 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HC New Testament NAB Fundamental theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Sexual Abuse
B patriarchal structures B #ChurchToo B Jesus’s ministry B Keywords #ChurchToo B #MeToo B women in Luke |
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| Summary: | This article provides an example of how Scripture can be a source of healing for #ChurchToo victims. Although the Bible has been used to oppress women and fuel sexual assault and abuse, as in many complementarian readings of Scripture, it more often works against systems of oppression and lifts the position of the victim. This article surveys four passages in Luke in which Jesus interacts with women who are victims of their patriarchal society: the widow of Nain (7:11-17), the woman who anoints Jesus (7:36-50), the woman who touches Jesus (8:42-48), and the woman Jesus heals on the Sabbath (13:10-17). An interdisciplinary hermeneutic focused on the narrative-critical elements aids interpreting the text through the eyes of the Gospel’s earliest readers while keeping an eye toward the liberating nature of Jesus’s ministry in Luke. When understood in its social and literary context, these Lukan pericopes show that Jesus counters the abuse of women and works against systems of oppression. Jesus serves as a model for the way Christians should treat women; his ministry should inspire readers to ease the suffering caused by patriarchal structures in the Church and society instead of ignoring or excusing it. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637320919135 |