The Keswick Lecture - Scars Across Humanity Violence against women in Biblical perspective is a Elaine Storkey talk recorded at Keswick Convention - 2018 on Women available as DVD format. Across the world, girls and women face many different forms of violence, often institutionalised within cultures. Selective abortion, female genital mutilation, early enforced marriage, honour killings, domestic violence, trafficking, rape and sexual violence in war present a brutal picture of what too many of them undergo. But what lies behind these appalling practices? Some writers explain violence in terms of sociobiology or evolutionary psychology, others focus on culture, economics, family systems, patriarchal power. Elaine Storkey looks at what biblical theology offers in helping

understand this global problem and how the gospel challenges Christians to take a lead in countering it.