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The Expository Times, Vol. 117, No. 1, 15-18 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0014524605058718

Contextual Bible Study at Cornton Vale Women’s Prison, Stirling

Alison Peden

Rector, Holy Trinity Church, Stirling

A women’s prison in Stirling provided an opportunity to offer Contextual Bible Study as an agent of change amongst the marginalised, using texts suggested by the feminist theology of embodiment. The women identified closely with the human emotions of the texts, and willingly located their own experiences within the Biblical narrative, while finding some ideas and stories unacceptable. Several problems are raised: how far we can identify with Biblical experience; who should choose the texts for such a group, and from what stance; and how to take proper pastoral responsibility for the consequences of this kind of Bible study.


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