Theology and Down syndrome : reimagining disability in late modernity / Amos Yong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yong, Amos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.

People with disabilities.

Down syndrome--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Down syndrome.

Church work with people with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos Yong crafts both 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.

Contents:

Anticipating Down syndrome and disability. Introduction : narrating and imagining Down syndrome and disability ; The blind, the deaf, and the lame : biblical and historical trajectories

Down syndrome and disability in the modern world. Medicalizing Down syndrome : disability in the world of modern science ; Deconstructing and reconstructing disability : late modern discourses ; Disability in context : feminist, cultural, and world religious perspectives

Reimagining and renewing theology in late modernity : enabling a disabled world. Reimagining the doctrines of creation, providence, and the imago Dei : rehabilitating Down syndrome and disability ; Renewing ecclesiology : Down syndrome, disability, and the community of those being redeemed ; Rethinking soteriology : on saving Down syndrome and disability ; Resurrecting Down syndrome and disability : heaven and the healing of the world.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-16203-5

9786611162030

1-60258-077-4

OCLC:

191747947