This master thesis started out at a course about sexual abuse at the Norwegian Church Resource Center for Sexually Abused that I attended the fall of 2009. I have been interested in Liberation theology for a while, and it occurred to me that the Resource center seemed to be using this theology in a practical way in their work with victims of sexual abuse. The work they are doing is diaconal by its very definition. The increasing problem of rape in our society, and seemingly, to my understanding, the small extent that the church has been involved with this vulnerable group in our...