THEOLOGY AND DOWN SYNDROME : reimagining disability in late modernity
Presents a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context.
1 volume ; 23 cm.
9781481314886, 1481314882
1199126700
Part IAnticipating Down Syndrome and Disability1 Introduction Narrating and Imagining Down Syndrome and Disability 2 The Blind, the Deaf, and the Lame Biblical and Historical Trajectories Part IIDown Syndrome and Disability in the Modern World3 Medicalizing Down Syndrome Disability in the World of Modern science 4 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Disability Late Modern Discourses 5 Disability in Feminist, Cultural, and World Religious Perspective Part IIIRenewing Theology and Late ModernityEnabling a Disabled World6 Renewing the Doctrines of Creation, Providence & the Imago Dei Rehabilitating Downs and Disability7 Renewing Ecclesiology Down Syndrome, Disability & the Community of Those being Redeemed 8 Renewing Soteriology On saving Down Syndrome and Disability9 Resurrecting Down Syndrome and Disability Heaven and the Healing of the World