Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note: On Researcher Positionality and Responsibilities -- Introduction: From Proverbs of Ashes to Invention for Faithful Deliberation -- 1. Naming Those Sins: A Brief History of Rules, Boundaries, and Responses -- 2. Wake Up, Sleepers: Cheap and Costly Rhetorical Grace Before #ChurchToo -- 3. More Than Platitudes: Casuistically Tightening Forgiveness -- 4. Letters to Their Brothers: Southern Baptist Women and a Rhetoric of Reconciliation -- 5. A Fellowship of Survivors: Archiving Abuse, Inviting Healing, and Drawing Lines
Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary
"Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities regarding how to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence, with an eye toward both compassion for victims and accountability for perpetrators"-- Provided by publisher
