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Theology and the Experience of Disability
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ABSTRACT
The Christian gospel compels humanity to embrace deeper ways of being human together that will overcome false divisions and exclusions in search of flourishing and graced communities. Presenting both short narratives emerging out of theological reflection on experience and analytical essays arising from engagement in scholarly conversations Theology and the Experience of Disability is a conscious attempt to develop theology by and with people with disabilities instead of theology about people with disabilities.
A mixture of academic, professional, practical, and/or lived experience is brought to the topic in search of constructive multi-disciplinary proposals for church and society. The result is an interdisciplinary engagement with the constructive possibilities that emerge from a distinctly Christian understanding of disability as lived experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction: Theology and the Experience of Disability ‘Down Under’
part |2 pages
Part I Theology, Disability, and Being
chapter 5|20 pages
No Longer Strangers: Disabled Ontology and the Church as Meaningful Community in Liquid Modernity
chapter 6|5 pages
Conversations with James on Leadership: What Can We Learn about Leadership and Personhood from People with Severe Cognitive Disability?
chapter 7|9 pages
‘He’s My Mate’: Cerebral Palsy, Church, and the Gift of Friendship
part |2 pages
Part II Theology, Disability, and Belonging
chapter 9|23 pages
Disability in the Australian Church: Results from the 2011 Church Life Survey
chapter 10|11 pages
‘A Person Standing in the Gap’: The Deaf Community as a Mission Field
chapter 11|16 pages
Banqueting and Disability in the Ancient World: Reconsidering the Parable of the Great Banquet (Luke 14:15–24)
chapter 12|7 pages
Mephibosheth at the Table: A High Point in Davidic Kingship – 2 Samuel 9:1–13
chapter 13|19 pages
Welcoming and Including People with Intellectual Disability: A Report on a Study of Five Churches
chapter 14|12 pages
From Inclusion to Belonging: Why ‘Disabled’ Bodies are Necessary for the Faithfulness of the Church
part |2 pages
Part III Theology, Disability, and Becoming