Theology and Down Syndrome

Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity

Amos Yong

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781602580060, 9781481314886
• eBook ISBN: 9781602580770
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos Yong crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Half title, Title, Copyright, Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I Anticipating Down Syndrome and Disability
• I Introduction: Narrating and Imagining Down Syndrome and Disability
• II The Blind, the Deaf, and the Lame: Biblical and Historical Trajectories
• III Medicalizing Down Syndrome: Disability in the World of Modern Science
• IV Deconstructing and Reconstructing Disability: Late Modern Discourses
• V Disability in Context: Feminist, Cultural, and World Religious Perspectives
• Part III Reimagining and Renewing Theology in Late Modernity: Enabling a Disabled World
• VI Reimagining the Doctrines of Creation, Providence and the Imago Dei: Rehabilitating Down Syndrome and Disability
• VII Renewing Ecclesiology: Down Syndrome, Disability, and the Community of Those Being Redeemed
• VII Rethinking Soteriology: On Saving Down Syndrome and Disability
• IX Resurrecting Down Syndrome and Disability: Heaven and the Healing of the World
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Abbreviations
• References
• Scripture Index
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