Disability in the Christian Tradition : A Reader
ISBN: 9780802866028 | 0802866026
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Pub. Date: 8/31/2012
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For Two Millennia Christians Have Thought about What human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition brings together for the first time key writings on disability by thinkers from all periods of Christian history-including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Hauerwas, and more. Fourteen contemporary experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering lucid commentary and highlighting important themes. Book jacket.
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: Disability and the Quest for the Human | p. 1 |
| The Patristic Era: Early Christian Attitudes toward the Disfigured Outcast | p. 24 |
| Augustine's Hierarchies of Human Wholeness and Their Healing | p. 65 |
| Aquinas on the corporis infirmitas: Broken Flesh and the Grammar of Grace | p. 101 |
| A Ravishing and Restful Sight: Seeing with Julian of Norwich | p. 152 |
| The Human C... MORE | p. 184 |
| John Calvin and Disability | p. 216 |
| To Develop Relational Autonomy: On Hegel's View of People with Disabilities | p. 251 |
| Between Necessity and Possibility: Kierkegaard and the Abilities and Disabilities of Subjectivity | p. 286 |
| People Are Born from People: Willem Van den Bergh on Mentally Disabled People | p. 321 |
| "My Strength Is Made Perfect in Weakness": Bonhoeffer and the War over Disabled Life | p. 353 |
| This Ability: Barth on the Concrete Freedom of Human Life | p. 391 |
| Women, Disabled | p. 427 |
| Being with the Disabled: Jean Vanier's Theological Realism | p. 467 |
| The Importance of Being a Creature: Stanley Hauerwas on Disability | p. 512 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 546 |
| Index of Authors | p. 551 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 554 |
| Index of Scripture | p. 562 |
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Brian Brock is lecturer in moral and practical theology at the University of Aberdeen. John Swinton is professor of practical theology and pastoral care at the University of Aberdeen.
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