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Solus Christus within Empire: Christology in the Face of Violence against Women
Author(s) -
Streufert Mary J.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12119
Subject(s) - confession (law) , empire , face (sociological concept) , christology , criminology , psychology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , religious studies , sociology , law , political science , social science
When seen as the theocentric political confession it is, the confession “only Christ” is possible and meaningful for victim/survivors of violence against women. To confess only Christ undoes what is “required” in an empire of violence against women and is the recognition that Jesus Christ embraces our bodies, all of them. Moreover, this confession changes the body's response—individual and communal—to violence in an empire of violence against women.