اجتماع آسیب پذیر: الهیات معلولیت و بیمارداری | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Notes......Page 24
1. Theology and Disability: Perils and Promises......Page 26
I. A Disabling Theology or a Theology of Disability?......Page 27
Defining Disability beyond the Medical Model......Page 28
Understanding Disability Christianly: Is Disability a Tragedy to Be Undone?......Page 30
II. Beyond Theodicy?......Page 33
III. Toward a Hermeneutic of Disability......Page 36
Avoiding the Theological Denigration of Disability......Page 38
Avoiding the Theological Trivialization of Disability......Page 41
Notes......Page 45
2. Communal Boundaries: Dwelling Together and the Cult of Normalcy......Page 48
I. The Human Need for Welcome......Page 50
Fundamental Trust—A Desire for “Home”......Page 51
Home as Dwelling Together......Page 53
Community and Identity—Frameworks of the Good......Page 54
III. Recognition, Value, and the Good: Into the Sway of the Cult of Normalcy......Page 57
Economies of Exchange......Page 58
Body Capital—Measuring Exchange Value......Page 59
The Cult of Normalcy......Page 60
Stigma—The Spoiled Body......Page 64
Taboo—Prohibiting the Abnormal......Page 66
Conclusion: Against “Normalization”?......Page 70
Notes......Page 71
3. Able Bodies? The Illusion of Control and Denial of Vulnerability......Page 74
I. Theoretical Roots of the Modern Notion of Personhood......Page 78
Ironic Equality—Like “Us”......Page 81
Ironic Self-sufficiency and Freedom—Dis-abling Ability?......Page 83
Ironically Rational—Routing the Irrational (Reason-unable?)......Page 85
III. Managing the Body: The Productive Imperative......Page 88
Wealth Accumulation......Page 89
Efficiency—A Competitive Edge on Time......Page 90
Novelty—The Tyranny of the New......Page 92
The Person as Consumer—Empowered to Purchase......Page 94
Beautiful, Youthful, and Able Bodies......Page 96
Conclusion: Spiritual Self-Interest?......Page 97
Notes......Page 99
4. Recovering Disability: The Strange Power of “Weakness”......Page 102
I. Vulnerability: Reassessing Wholeness and Disability......Page 104
Dependence—Rethinking “Normal”......Page 105
The Difficult Strength of Vulnerability—Neediness and the Reality of Suffering 107......Page 107
Creative Openings—An Autobiographical Excursus on Love......Page 111
Against Pity and Charity?......Page 113
The Strange Power of Weakness—Enabling Love......Page 116
Love—To Welcome the Presence of the Other......Page 118
IV. The Moral Fabric of Love: Availability......Page 122
Respect—Giving Way for the Other......Page 123
Fidelity—Faithfulness to the Other......Page 124
Compassion—Sympathy with the Other, for Its Well-being 126......Page 125
Conclusion: Empowering Community......Page 128
Notes......Page 131
5. Love Divine: Vulnerability, Creation, and God......Page 135
Gratitude—Existence as Gift......Page 137
Hope—Relation beyond Tragedy......Page 139
The Sense of God—An Extraordinary Possibility in Vulnerable Ordinariness......Page 141
II. Creation’s God: A Theological Matrix......Page 144
God’s Transcendence and the Redemptive Encounter......Page 145
Naming God’s Redemptive Presence......Page 146
III. God’s Creative Power: Toward a Theology of Creation......Page 149
In the Beginning, God......Page 150
Creation Called into Being......Page 152
Creation from Nothing......Page 153
Continuing Creation and Providence......Page 154
Creation a Free Act of God......Page 155
Creation as Gift, Loved into Being......Page 156
Creation’s Difference, God’s Giving......Page 158
Creation and the Tragic......Page 159
Divine Vulnerability and Tragedy......Page 162
Conclusion: Theology of Creation in a Key of Gratitude and Hope......Page 166
Notes......Page 168
6. Worthy of Love? Humanity, Disability, and Redemption in Christ......Page 173
Imago Dei as Imitatio Dei......Page 175
Imago Dei as Creativity—Human Being as a Cocreative Agent of God......Page 177
Imago Dei as Relationality—Human Being as Embodied along with Others......Page 178
Imago Dei as Availability—Human Being as Freedom for Love......Page 179
The Imago Dei and Disability......Page 184
II. Sin’s Tragedy and the Possibility of Redemption......Page 185
Sin—Creative Freedom for Love Gone Awry......Page 186
Sin, Idolatry, and the Possibility of Redemption......Page 191
III. Reconsidering Redemption in Jesus Christ......Page 194
Jesus as the Icon of a Vulnerable God—Redemptive Revelation......Page 195
Jesus—The Fully Human Person......Page 198
Jesus as God’s Solidarity with Humanity—Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection......Page 199
Conclusion: Reversing Disability’s Disability......Page 206
Notes......Page 208
7. Being Together: Love, Church, and Hospitality......Page 211
I. To Love as Christ Loves: Loving Chris as Christ Loves and Loving Christ as Chris Loves......Page 212
II. The Strange Kingdom of God: Restoring the Imago Dei in Right Relationships......Page 215
The Creative Power of Inclusion—Welcoming (in) the Kingdom......Page 216
Healing Power—Welcome, Transformation, and Wholeness......Page 220
Cross as Inclusive Solidarity—The Power of Inability......Page 225
Disability and the Imitation of Christ......Page 227
III. The Strange Household of God: Church as the Ongoing Presence of Christ......Page 229
Church as the Household of God—A New Covenant......Page 230
Church as the Body of Christ......Page 231
IV. Hospitality: Welcoming (in) the Spirit......Page 235
Hospitality—Inspirited Openness to the Other......Page 237
Hospitality and Disability......Page 241
Conclusion: Kindling Hope for the Church as a Communion of Strangers......Page 244
Notes......Page 246