Changed imagination, changed obedience
Subtitle: social change, social imagination, and the bent-over woman in the gospel of Luke
By: Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781608996759
Subjects: Socio-rhetorical criticism; Healing of the bent-over woman (Miracle); Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Social change
Description: In this work, Houghtby-Haddon takes a new look at an old text, using the theory of social imagination as an exegetic guide. In her exploration of the bent-over woman story in Luke 13:10-17, Houghtby-Haddon uncovers clues suggesting that this story is a key interpretive text for seeing Luke's social vision for his community at work. Exploring mythic, social, communal, and cultural elements beneath the surface of the story, Houghtby-Haddon suggests that the bent-over woman is the embodiment of Jesus' claim in the synagogue of Nazareth that "today, these Scriptures are fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:16-21), and that the woman prefigures the post-Pentecostal community that will gather in Jesus' name. The author concludes by taking the theory from the gospel of Luke to the streets to see how a contemporary neighborhood group might use the social imagination model, and the new reading of the story of the bent-over woman, to imagine a twenty-first-century social vision for its own community: a vision that more fully embodies the just community Jesus proclaims in Nazareth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Myths and worlds : the stuff of social change; title: Daughter of Abraham established forever : the mythic and culture worlds of the bent-over woman; title: Bent over and bound no longer : the society and culture worlds of the bent-over woman; title: Words made flesh : the bent-over woman  as metaphor in the communal world of Luke-Acts; title: Weaving the tapestry of social imagination today.