Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader

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Brian Brock, John Swinton
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Sep 6, 2012 - Religion - 564 pages
For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. But never has one volume collected the most significant Christian writings on disability. This book fills that gap.
Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition brings together for the first time key writings by thinkers from all periods of Christian history - including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Hauerwas, and more. Fourteen contemporary experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering clear commentary and highlighting important themes.
 

Contents

Augustines Hierarchies of Human Wholeness
65
Broken Flesh
101
Seeing with Julian of Norwich
152
John Calvin and Disability
216
Kierkegaard
286
Willem Van den Bergh
321
Barth on the Concrete Freedom of Human Life
391
Women Disabled
427
Jean Vaniers Theological Realism
467
acknowledgments
546
index of subjects
554
index of scripture
562
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Brian Brock is lecturer in moral and practical theology atthe University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author ofSinging the Ethos of God: On the Place of ChristianEthics in Scripture and has written extensively onmedical ethics and disability theology. For moreinformation, visit the University of Aberdeen website. John Swinton, Ph.D., B.D., R.M.N., R.N.M.H. worked as a nurse for sixteen years, specializing in the areas of psychiatry and learning disability. He also spent a number of years working in the field of hospital chaplaincy, most recently as a community psychiatric chaplain. He now lectures in practical theology in the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.