A constructive theology of intellectual disability : human being as mutuality and response / Molly C. Haslam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haslam, Molly Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings.

Intellectual disability--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Intellectual disability.

People with mental disabilities--Religious life.

People with mental disabilities.

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book asks, on behalf of individuals with profound intellectual disabilities, what it means to be human. That question has traditionally been answered with an emphasis on an intellectual capacityGthe ability to employ concepts or to make moral choicesGand has ignored the value of individuals who lack such intellectual capacities. The author suggests, rather, that human beings be understood in terms of participation in relationships of mutual responsiveness, which includes but is not limited to intellectual forms of communicating. She supports her argument by developing a phenomenology of h

Contents:

Gordon Kaufman: human being as intentional agent

George Lindbeck: human being as language-user

Human being in relational terms: a phenomenology

Martin Buber's anthropology

Imago Dei as rationality or relationality: history and construction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8232-3944-6

0-8232-4929-8

OCLC:

787846007