Changed Imagination, Changed Obedience

Social Change, Social Imagination, and the Bent-Over Woman in the Gospel of Luke

Houghtby-Haddon

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781630879853
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

In this work, Houghtby-Haddon takes a new look at an old text, using a theory of the Social Imagination as an exegetical 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 in Nazareth that today, these Scriptures are fulfilled in your hearing (Luke 4:16-21), and that the woman prefigures the post-Pentecost 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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Myths and Worlds
• Chapter 2: Daughter of Abraham Established Forever
• Chapter 3: Bent Over and Bound No Longer
• Chapter 4: Words Made Flesh
• Chapter 5: Weaving the Tapestry of Social Imagination Today
• Afterword
• Bibliography