The cross and gendercide : a theological response to global violence against women and girls

The Resource The cross and gendercide : a theological response to global violence against women and girls

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The cross and gendercide : a theological response to global violence against women and girls

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a theological response to global violence against women and girls

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Gerhardt

Language

eng

Summary

Violence against women and girls is a human rights epidemic that affects millions of lives around the world. While many Christians are addressing this crisis through education, advocacy and philanthropic support, there has been a reluctance to name gendercide as a theological and confessional issue, a matter that strikes at the very essence of the Christian faith. In The Cross and Gendercide, Elizabeth Gerhardt draws on Luther's "theology of the cross" to provide a theological basis for naming and responding to the grave sin of global gendercide. She lifts up the work and witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an especially powerful resource for mobilizing the church today toward political action and social engagement. From the perspective of Christ's cross, the church must raise a prophetic voice against systemic violence and speak up for the myriad women and girls who are invisible and voiceless in the world today

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N$T

Dewey number

261.8/32

Index

index present

LC call number

BT736.15

LC item number

.G48 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
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