Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity

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Baylor University Press, 2007 - Medical - 450 pages

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.

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Contents

Part
1
the Blind the Deaf and the Lame
19
Part II
43
Deconstructing and reconstructing Disability
79
Disability in Context
117
reimagining the Doctrines of Creation Providence
155
renewing Ecclesiology
193
rethinking Soteriology
227
resurrecting Down Syndrome and Disability
259
Epilogue
293
abbreviations
339
Scripture Index
433
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Amos Yong (Ph.D. Boston University) is Professor of Theology and Mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

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