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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779453303321

Titolo

Critical reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' theology of disability : disabling society, enabling theology / / John Swinton, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Binghamton, N.Y. : , : Haworth Pastoral Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-136-43283-3

0-203-05112-2

1-283-88412-7

1-136-43276-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HauerwasStanley <1940->

SwintonJohn <1957->

Disciplina

261.8/324

Soggetti

Developmental disabilities - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of religion, disability & health, volume 8, numbers 3/4 2004."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: A Doctor's Debt to Stanley Hauerwas; Introduction: Hauerwas on Disability; Chapter 1. Timeful  Friends: Living with the Handicapped; Response: The Need of Strangers; Response: Making Yourself Useful; Chapter 2. Community and Diversity: The Tyranny of Normality; Response: Whose Table for ""The Retarded""?; Chapter 3. The Church and the Mentally Handicapped: A Continuing Challenge to the Imagination; Response: The Limits of Our Practices

Chapter 4. The Gesture of a Truthful StoryResponse: On Discovering Saints and Making a Difference; Chapter 5. Suffering the Retarded: Should We Prevent Retardation?; Response: Thoughts on Suffering: A Parent's View; Chapter 6. Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person But He Is Still My Uncle Charlie; Response: The Ground and Grammar of Personhood; Chapter 7. The Retarded and the Criteria for the Human; Chapter 8. Suffering, Medical Ethics, and the Retarded Child; A Response to Chapters Seven and Eight: Retarded Children or Retarded Ethics?



Chapter 9: Having and Learning to Care for Retarded ChildrenChapter 10. The Retarded, Society, and the Family: The Dilemma of Care; Response to Chapters 9 and 10: On the Significance of Caring; Chapter 11. Reflection on Dependency: A Response to Responses to My Essays on Disability; Index

Sommario/riassunto

?No other mainstream theologian has so consistently and trenchantly taken a stand with and for people with developmental disabilities.??John SwintonCritical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology examines the influential writings of one of the most important contemporary theologians. Over the past thirty years, Time magazine Theologian of the Year (2001) Dr. Stanley Hauerwas has consistently presented a theological position which values the deep theological significance of people with developmental disabilities, as well as thei