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

• Pubblicazione: Binghamton, N.Y. : , : Haworth Pastoral Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.8/324
• Soggetto topico: Developmental disabilities - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Altri autori: HauerwasStanley <1940-> SwintonJohn <1957->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' theology of disability
• ISBN: 1-136-43283-3; 0-203-05112-2; 1-283-88412-7; 1-136-43276-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779453303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II