A constructive theology of intellectual disability [[electronic resource] ] : human being as mutuality and response / / Molly C. Haslam

• Autore: Haslam Molly Claire
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Disciplina: 233/.5
• Soggetto topico: Human beings; Intellectual disability - Religious aspects - Christianity; People with mental disabilities - Religious life; Theological anthropology - Christianity
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Gordon Kaufman: human being as intentional agent -- George Lindbeck: human being as language-user -- Human being in relational terms: a phenomenology -- Martin Buber's anthropology -- Imago Dei as rationality or relationality: history and construction.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book asks, on behalf of individuals with profound intellectual disabilities, what it means to be human. That question has traditionally been answered with an emphasis on an intellectual capacityGthe ability to employ concepts or to make moral choicesGand has ignored the value of individuals who lack such intellectual capacities. The author suggests, rather, that human beings be understood in terms of participation in relationships of mutual responsiveness, which includes but is not limited to intellectual forms of communicating. She supports her argument by developing a phenomenology of h
• Titolo autorizzato: A constructive theology of intellectual disability
• ISBN: 0-8232-3944-6; 0-8232-4929-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788461503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II