Foreword / Rt Revd Dr Eleanor Sanderson -- Introduction: Acknowledging Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse / Jayme R. Reaves and David Tombs -- Part 1: Biblical and Textual Studies : -- 1. Crucifixion and Sexual Abuse / David Tombs -- 2. Covering Up Sexual Abuse: An Ecclesial Tendency from the Earliest Years of the Jesus Movement? / Michael Trainor -- 3. 'He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word': A Womanist Perspective of Crucifixion, Sexual Violence and Sacralized Silence / Mitzi J. Smith -- 4. Family Resemblance: Reading Post-Crucifixion Encounters as Community Responses to Sexual Violence / Monica C. Poole -- 5. Knowing Christ Crucified (1 Corinthians 2.2): Cross, Humiliation and Humility / Jeremy Punt -- 6. Jesus, Joseph and Tamar Stripped: Trans-textual and Intertextual Resources for Engaging Sexual Violence Against Men / Gerald O. West -- Part 2: Stations of the Cross : -- 7. This is My A Body / Pádraig Ó Tuama -- Part 3: Parsing Culture, Context and Perspectives : -- 8. Conceal to Reveal: Reflections on Sexual Violence and Theological Discourses in the African Caribbean / Carlton Turner -- 9. 'Not pictured': What Veronica Mars Can Teach Us about the Crucifixion / Rachel Starr -- 10. Jesus is a Survivor: Sexual Violence and Stigma within Faith Communities / Elisabet le Roux -- 11. Why Do We See Him Naked? Politicized, Spiritualized and Sexualized Gazes at Violence / R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Srdjan Sremac and Teguh Wijaya Mulya -- 12. The Crucified Christa: A Re-evaluation / Nicola Slee -- 13. Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse: A Womanist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Crucifixion / Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe -- Part 4: Sexual Abuse, Trauma and the Personal : --14. Jesus: A Critical Companion in the Journey to Moving on from Sexual Abuse / Beth R. Crisp -- 15. Surviving Trauma at the Foot of the Cross / Karen O'Donnell -- 16. 'This is My Body': A Womanist Reflection on Jesus' Sexualized Trauma during His Crucifixion from a Survivor of Sexual Assault / Shanell T. Smith -- 17. Seeing His Innocence, I See My Innocence / Rocio Figueroa and David Tombs - Foreword / Eleanor Sanderson -- Introduction : acknowledging Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse / Jayme R. Reaves and David Tombs -- Part 1: Biblical and textual studies -- 1. Crucifixion and sexual abuse / David Tombs -- 2. Covering up sexual abuse : an ecclesial tendency from the earliest years of the Jesus movement? / Michael Trainor -- 3. 'He never said a mumbalin' word': a womanist perspective of crucifixion, sexual violence and sacralized silence / Mitzi J. Smith -- 4. Family resemblance : reading post-crucifixion encounters as community responses to sexual violence / Monica C. Poole -- 5. Knowing Christ crucified (1 Corinthians 2.2) : cross, humiliation and humility / Jeremy Punt -- 6. Jesus, Joseph and Tamar Stripped : trans-textual and intertextual resources for engaging sexual violence against men / Gerald O. West -- Part 2 : Stations of the Cross -- 7. This is my [word crossed out] a body / Pádraig Ó Tuama -- Part 3 : Parsing culture, context and perspectives -- 8. Conceal to reveal : reflections on sexual violence and theological discourses in the African Caribbean / Carlton Turner -- 9. 'Not pictured' : what Veronica Mars can teach us about the crucifixion / Rachel Starr -- 10. Jesus is a survivor : sexual violence and stigma within faith communities / Elisabet le Roux -- 11. Why do we see him naked? : politicized, spiritualized and sexualized gazes at violence / R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Srdjan Sremac and Teguh Wijaya Mulya -- 12. The crucified Christa : a re-evaluation / Nicola Slee -- 13. Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse : a womanist critical discourse analysis of the crucifixion / Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe -- Part 4 : Sexual abuse, trauma and the personal --14. Jesus : a critical companion in the journey to moving on from sexual abuse / Beth R. Crisp -- 15. Surviving trauma at the foot of the Cross / Karen O'Donnell -- 16. 'This is my body' : a womanist reflection on Jesus' sexualized trauma during his crucifixion from a survivor of sexual assault / Shanell T. Smith -- 17. Seeing his innocence, I see my innocence / Rocio Figueroa and David Tombs.
Summary:
Was the stripping and exposure of Jesus a form of sexual abuse? If so, why does such a reading of Jesus' suffering matter? The combined impact of the #MeToo movement and a further wave of global revelations on church sexual abuse have given renewed significance to recent work naming Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. Timely and provocative When Did We See You Naked? presents the arguments for reading Christ as an abuse victim, as well as exploring how the position might be critiqued, and what implications and applications it might offer to the Church. The collection includes an impressively diverse international field of contributors drawn from a range of disciplines.
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