Healing the Hurting: Giving Hope and Help to Abused Women

By Catherine Clark Kroeger

Book Overview

A call for individuals and churches to confront abuse in the church, resulting in healing for survivors and abusers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801058317
• ISBN13: 9780801058318
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Working Together to Listen and Learn (Catherine Clark Kroeger); Part 1 -- All the Hurting; Chap 1 -- Power, Patriarchy, and Abusive Marriages (Cynthia Ezell); The Burden of Inequality; History of Patriarchy; Marital Violence; The Battered Wife; The Battering Husband; The Role of Culture; The Role of Religion; Marital Rape; Gender Inequality and Marital Rape; Role of Religion in Marital Rape; Treatment Issues for Therapists and Pastoral Counselors; Implications for Religious Leaders; Justice, Equality, Intimacy; Chap 2 -- When Right Becomes Scriptural Abuse (Melissa Kubitschek Ezell); The Husband as Spiritual Leader of the Family; Sacrificial Love; Total Acceptance; Conclusion; Chap 3 -- Battered Christian Women (Elizabeth Pearson); Religion and Battering; Surveying Battered Women; The Need for Response: Ministers and Church Leaders, The Church Community, Health-Care Providers, Therapists; Chap 4 -- Testimony of an Abuse Survivor (Lydia); Chap 5 -- Reflections of an Abuse Survivor (Marge Cox); Chap 6 -- Christian Men Who Hate Women (Margaret Josephson Rinck); Chap 7 -- The Silent Killer of Christian Marriages (Amy Wildman White); The Characteristics of Emotional Abuse; The Traits of an Abusive Husband; The Traits of an Emotionally Abused Wife; Responses to Emotionally Abusive Marriages; Chap 8 -- The Evangelical Family Is Sacred, but Is It Safe? (Nancy Nason-Clark); The Response of Christian Churches to Wife Abuse; Evangelical Churches and Abuse: Signs of Sensitivity; The Experience of Pastors in Counseling Abuse Victims; The Informal Support Network; Churchwomen's Response to the Transition House Movement; Challenges to Seeing Church Sensitivity: Giving the Violence a Name, Reconciling Abuser and Abused, Making Few Referrals, Preaching Reluctantly Against Wife Abuse, Interpreting Abuse in Families of Faith; Making the Church a Safe Place: Recognize That Abuse Exists, Identify the Unique Role of the Pastoral Counselor, Ensure That Victimized Women Are Offered Choices, Support Violence-Free Family Living, Build Bridges to the Community; Part 2 -- And the Healing; Chap 9 -- Sexual Abuse Survivors in the Church (Diane Strong Nesheim); My Story; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing; Issues That Contribute to Abuse: Headship and Submission, Misinterpretation or Selective Use of Scripture, Obedience to Authority; Hindrances to Healing from Abuse: Faith or Magical Thinking? Simplistic Answers, Loss of or Misplaced Trust, Guilt Reinforced, Denial of Feelings, Virtue in Self-Denial, Suffering as Payment for Sin, Virginity Upheld; The Church's Role in the Healing Process: Allowing the Expression of Anger and Rage, Offering Forgiveness, Seeing the Family as It Really Is, Using Alternative Images for God; Transformed Christian Communities, Christian Education, Reinterpreting Scripture, Training for Clergy, Seeking Justice;Chap 10 -- "