Woman-Battering
(1994)

Woman-Battering  is a volume in Fortress Press's Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series, called by one reviewer, "a wonderfully practical book to help clergy and pastoral counselors deal with abuse in intimate relationships....A major contribution is her insight as to how to make theological sense out of the horror and misery that has lain concealed in the midst of a congregation....An important contribution of the book is the development of an approach to the batterer....Its straightforward step by step treatment makes it a marvelous handbook for those who would be agents of change and want the tools to begin."

Table of Contents

•    Introduction: Woman-Battering in Christian Congregations

•    Naming

•    Being Prepared

•    Making Referrals

•    Safety

•    Accountability

•    Suffering and Theology

•    Conclusion: Creating a Responsive Church Community

•    Appendix: Handling an Emergeny Call

Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook
(New York: Continuum, 1995)

Edited with Marie M. Fortune. Unfortunately, because of the glacial ways in which the Christian community is dealing with these issues, this book is still right on target in its analysis of the problems. It 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