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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778154303321

Autore

Yong Amos

Titolo

Theology and Down syndrome [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining disability in late modernity / / Amos Yong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, TX, : Baylor University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-16203-5

9786611162030

1-60258-077-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Disciplina

261.8/322

Soggetti

People with disabilities - Religious aspects - Christianity

Down syndrome - Religious aspects - Christianity

Church work with people with disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Anticipating Down syndrome and disability. Introduction : narrating and imagining Down syndrome and disability ; The blind, the deaf, and the lame : biblical and historical trajectories -- Down syndrome and disability in the modern world. Medicalizing Down syndrome : disability in the world of modern science ; Deconstructing and reconstructing disability : late modern discourses ; Disability in context : feminist, cultural, and world religious perspectives -- Reimagining and renewing theology in late modernity : enabling a disabled world. Reimagining the doctrines of creation, providence, and the imago Dei : rehabilitating Down syndrome and disability ; Renewing ecclesiology : Down syndrome, disability, and the community of those being redeemed ; Rethinking soteriology : on saving Down syndrome and disability ; Resurrecting Down syndrome and disability : heaven and the healing of the world.