Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 6, Special Issue 2

Engaging Disability

Miguel J. Romero, Mary Jo Iozzio, Miguel J. Romero, Mary Jo Iozzio

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781532640315
  9781532640322
• eBook ISBN:
  9781725250529
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Engaging DisabilityEdited by Miguel J. Romero and Mary Jo IozzioPreface: Engaging Disability Mary Jo Iozzio and Miguel J. RomeroGod Bends Over Backwards to Accommodate Humankind …While the Civil Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act Require [Only] the Minimum Mary Jo IozzioOn "And Vulnerable": Catholic Social Thought and the Social Challenges of Cognitive Disability Matthew GaudetFrom Universal Precautions to Universal Design: Disclosure of Concealable Disability in the Case of HIV Mary M. Doyle RocheDisability, the Healing of Infirmity, and the Theological Virtue of Hope: A Thomistic Approach Paul GondreauSeventeenth-Century Casuistry Regarding Persons with Disabilities: Antonino Diana's Tract "On the Mute, Deaf, and Blind" Julia A. FlemingBlessed Silence: Explorations in Christian Contemplation and Hearing Loss Jana BennettBecoming Friends: Ethics in Friendship and in Doing Theology Lorraine CuddebackThe Slow Journey Towards Beatitude: Disability in L'Arche, and Staying Human in High-Speed Society Jason Reimer GreigThe Goodness and Beauty of Our Fragile Flesh: Moral Theologians and Our Engagement With 'Disability' Miguel J. Romero

Table of contents

• EDITOR EMERITUS and university Liaison David M. McCarthy, Mount St. Mary’s University
• Editor
• The Current State of Cognitive Disability in
• American Society
• The Modern Social Construction of Cognitive Disability
• Catholic social thought: A Response to
• Social Upheaval
• In Defense of “and Vulnerable”
• Casuistry and Casuists in the First Half
• of the Seventeenth Century
• Antonino Diana, the Theatines, and the Resolutiones morales
• The Tract “On the Mute, Deaf, and Blind”
• Interpretation of the Tract
• Capacities of Persons with Particular Disabilities
• The Ecclesiastical Responsibilities of the Mute, Deaf, and/or Blind
• Accommodations for the Mute, Deaf, and/or Blind
• Conclusion: Implications for the Present
• The Goodness and Beauty of
• Our Fragile Flesh:
• Moral Theologians and Our
• Engagement With “Disability”
• Miguel J. Romero
• Part One: Theological Avoidance and Engagement
• With “Disability”
• Three Types of Theological Discourse on Disability
• 1) Principled Avoidance
• 2) Practical Specialization
• 3) Instrumental Use
• Part Two: A Christian Challenge to the Concept
• of “Disability”
• The Ability-Disability Distinction
• Theological Use of the Concept “Disability”
• Recovering Creatureliness and Vulnerability for Moral Theology
• Diagnosing the Blind-Spots and Tendencies of Moralists
• Part Three: Aquinas on the Fittingness of Our
• Vulnerable and Dependent Bodies
• Anthropological Implications and the Challenge to See
• Part Four: The Badness, Ugliness, and Tragedy of
• “Disability”?
• Impairment, Healing, and the Non-Competitive Transcendence of God
• Part Five: Encounter and Learning to See
• Beauty and Theological Anthropology