Research Catalog

Title

Theology and Down syndrome : reimagining disability in late modernity / Amos Yong.

Author

Yong, Amos.

Publication

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

xiii, 450 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Disabilities > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Down syndrome > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Church work with people with disabilities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-432) and indexes.

Contents

Anticipating Down syndrome and disability. Introduction : narrating and imagining Down syndrome and disability ; The blind, the deaf, and the lame : biblical and historical trajectories -- Down syndrome and disability in the modern world. Medicalizing Down syndrome : disability in the world of modern science ; Deconstructing and reconstructing disability : late modern discourses ; Disability in context : feminist, cultural, and world religious perspectives -- Reimagining and renewing theology in late modernity : enabling a disabled world. Reimagining the doctrines of creation, providence, and the imago Dei : rehabilitating Down syndrome and disability ; Renewing ecclesiology : Down syndrome, disability, and the community of those being redeemed ; Rethinking soteriology : on saving Down syndrome and disability ; Resurrecting Down syndrome and disability : heaven and the healing of the world.

Call Number

JFE 07-7910

ISBN

• 9781602580060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1602580065 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007028566

OCLC

156822331

Author

Yong, Amos.

Title

Theology and Down syndrome : reimagining disability in late modernity / Amos Yong.

Imprint

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-432) and indexes.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-7910