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Responses to the Naming of Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Violence, a colloquium led by Professor David Tombs
Author: Marita Snyman
Published: 28/06/2019

COLLOQUIUM: Responses to the Naming of Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Violence

​Professor Tombs' paper was followed by responses from Shantelle Weber, Senior lecturer: Practical Theology and Missiology, Ashwin Thyssen, senior student leader and activist and Jeremy Punt, Professor: Old and New Testament, all Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University.

Professor David Tombs is the Howard Paterson Chair of Theology and Public Issues, at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has a longstanding interest in contextual and liberation theologies and is author of Latin American Liberation Theology (Brill, 2002). His research is on religion and violence, and his current writing focusses on crucifixion. 

Pictured are Dion Forster, Shantelle Weber, David Tombs, Ashwin Thyssen and Jeremy Punt