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
Part I
Anticipating Down Syndrome and Disability
1 Introduction
Narrating and Imagining Down Syndrome and Disability
2 The Blind, the Deaf, and the Lame
Biblical and Historical Trajectories
Part II
Down Syndrome and Disability in the Modern World
3 Medicalizing Down Syndrome
Disability in the World of Modern science
4 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Disability
Late Modern Discourses
5 Disability in Feminist, Cultural, and World Religious Perspective
Part III
Renewing Theology and Late Modernity
Enabling a Disabled World
6 Renewing the Doctrines of Creation, Providence & the Imago Dei
Rehabilitating Downs and Disability
7 Renewing Ecclesiology
Down Syndrome, Disability & the Community of Those being Redeemed
8 Renewing Soteriology
On saving Down Syndrome and Disability
9 Resurrecting Down Syndrome and Disability
Heaven and the Healing of the World
