Disability in medieval Christian philosophy and theology / edited by Scott M. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Scott M. (Scott Matthew), 1977- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Disabilities.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 295 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Scott M. Williams is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He publishes in the areas of medieval theology and philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of disability. He has published several articles in philosophical theology on the Trinity, and recently published a response article, in Faith and Philosophy, called "In Defense of a Latin Social Trinity: A Response to William Hasker." He is currently writing a book, Henry of Ghent on the Trinity, and is co-editing a forthcoming special issue of the journal TheoLogica on conciliar trinitarianism

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Theoretical Frameworks

1 Plurality in Medieval Concepts of Disability

Part II: Disability in This Life

2 Medieval Aristotelians on Congenital Disabilities and Their Early Modern Critics

3 Personhood, Ethics, and Disability: A Comparison of Byzantine, Boethian, and Modern Concepts of Personhood

4 The Imago Dei/Trinitatis and Disabled Persons: The Limitations of Intellectualism in Late Medieval Theology

5 Remembering "Mindless" Persons: Intellectual Disability, Spanish Colonialism, and the Disappearance of a Medieval Account of Persons Who Lack the Use of Reason

6 Deafness and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages

7 Taking the "Dis" Out of Disability: Martyrs, Mothers, and Mystics in the Middle Ages

Part III: Disability in the Afterlife

8 Separated Souls: Disability in the Intermediate State

9 Disability and Resurrection

10 Relative Disability and Transhuman Happiness: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Disability in medieval Christian philosophy and theology

ISBN:

9780429202919

0429202911

9780429511509

0429511507

9780429518362

0429518366

9780429514937

042951493X

Publisher Number:

40029875136

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