Disability in the Christian tradition :
Disability in the Christian tradition : a reader /
edited by Brian Brock & John Swinton.
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.
- 1 online resource (xi, 564 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Disability and the quest for the human / The patristic era : early Christian attitudes toward the disfigured outcast / Augustine's hierarchies of human wholeness and their healing / Aquinas on the corporis infirmitas : broken flesh and the grammar of grace / A ravishing the restful sight : seeing with Julian of Norwich / The human condition as seen from the cross : Luther and disability / John Calvin and disability / To develop relational autonomy : on Hegel's view of people with disabilities / Between necessity and possibility : Kierkegaard and the abilities and disabilities of subjectivity / People are born from people : Willem Van den Bergh on mentally disabled people / "My strength is made perfect in weakness" : Bonhoeffer and the war over disabled life / This ability : Barth on the concrete freedom of human life / Women, disabled / Being with the disabled : Jean Vanier's theological realism / The importance of being a creature : Stanley Hauerwas on disability / Brian Brock -- Almut Caspary -- Brian Brock -- Miguel J. Romero -- Amy Laura Hall -- Stefan Heuser -- Deborah Beth Creamer -- Martin Wendte -- Christopher Craig Brittain -- Marjolein de Mooij -- Bernd Wannenwetsch -- Donald Wood -- Jana Bennett -- Hans S. Reinders -- John Swinton.
This book brings together for the first time the views of renowned Christian leaders throughout history - including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, van den Bergh, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Vanier, and Hauerwas. Fourteen experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering clear commentary and highlighting important themes. --from publisher description.
English.
9781467435901 1467435902 146743583X 9781467435833
2012018109
016148553 Uk
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theological anthropology--Christianity.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
People with disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theological anthropology--Christianity.
Electronic books.
BT732.7 / .D57 2012eb
261.8/324
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Disability and the quest for the human / The patristic era : early Christian attitudes toward the disfigured outcast / Augustine's hierarchies of human wholeness and their healing / Aquinas on the corporis infirmitas : broken flesh and the grammar of grace / A ravishing the restful sight : seeing with Julian of Norwich / The human condition as seen from the cross : Luther and disability / John Calvin and disability / To develop relational autonomy : on Hegel's view of people with disabilities / Between necessity and possibility : Kierkegaard and the abilities and disabilities of subjectivity / People are born from people : Willem Van den Bergh on mentally disabled people / "My strength is made perfect in weakness" : Bonhoeffer and the war over disabled life / This ability : Barth on the concrete freedom of human life / Women, disabled / Being with the disabled : Jean Vanier's theological realism / The importance of being a creature : Stanley Hauerwas on disability / Brian Brock -- Almut Caspary -- Brian Brock -- Miguel J. Romero -- Amy Laura Hall -- Stefan Heuser -- Deborah Beth Creamer -- Martin Wendte -- Christopher Craig Brittain -- Marjolein de Mooij -- Bernd Wannenwetsch -- Donald Wood -- Jana Bennett -- Hans S. Reinders -- John Swinton.
This book brings together for the first time the views of renowned Christian leaders throughout history - including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, van den Bergh, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Vanier, and Hauerwas. Fourteen experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering clear commentary and highlighting important themes. --from publisher description.
English.
9781467435901 1467435902 146743583X 9781467435833
2012018109
016148553 Uk
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theological anthropology--Christianity.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
People with disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theological anthropology--Christianity.
Electronic books.
BT732.7 / .D57 2012eb
261.8/324
