Introduction / Julie Claassens and Klaas Spronk
The hermeneutics of dignity / Frits de Lange
Response / Gerrit Brand
Figuring God and humankind : the imago Dei in view of anthropologies in the Old Testament / Hendrik Bosman
Response / Klaas Spronk
External response: The givenness of human dignity / Beverley E. Mitchell
A true disgrace? the representation of violence against women in the Book of Lamentations and in J.M. coetzee's novel Disgrace / L. Juliana M. Claassens
Response / Dorothea Erbele-Køster
Birth as creation under threat . Biblical-theological reflections on assisted reproductive technologies / Dorothea Erbele-Køster
Response / Charlene van der Walt
Human dignity, families and violence : the New Testament as resource? / Jeremey Punt
Response / Magda Misset-van de Weg
External response: A fragile dignity : intercontextual conversation on scripture, family and violence / Elsa Tamez
Dignity in the family? Analyzing our ambiguous relationship to the family and theological suggestions towards overcoming it / Petruschka Schaafsma
Response / Robert Vosloo
Empowering those who suffer domestic violence : the necessity of a different theological imagery / Anne-Claire Mulder
Response / Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel
External response: Family and its discontents / Cheryl B. Anderson
Missing links in mainline churches : Biblical life stories and their claim in todaýs family preaching / Ciska Stark
Response / Ian Nell
"Household" (dis)loyalties and violence in Judges 14 and 15 : dignity of gendered and religious "others" in a dialogical theological praxis / D. Xolile Simon and Lee-Ann J. Simon
Response / Leo Koffeman
Women and honor in Bible and Qur'an / Gø Speelman
Response / Yusuf Wagid
External response: Fragile dignity : family, honor, scripture / Monica J. Melanchton
Reflections on reflections : rights, in/dignity, in/equality, faith; the Bible as universal medicine? / Athalya Brenner.