Disability in the Christian Tradition: A ReaderBrian Brock, John Swinton 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
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Augustines Hierarchies of Human Wholeness and Their Healing | |
Broken Flesh and the Grammar of Grace | |
Seeing with Julian of Norwich | |
Luther and Disability | |
John Calvin and Disability | |
On Hegels View of People with Disabilities | |
Willem Van den Bergh on Mentally Disabled People | |
Bonhoeffer and the War over Disabled Life | |
Barth on the Concrete Freedom of Human Life | |
Women Disabled | |
Jean Vaniers Theological Realism | |
Stanley Hauerwas on Disability | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
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