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Author Vuk, Martina, author

Title Theological perspectives on reimagining friendship and disability / Martina Vuk
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 184 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Chapter 2: The theme of friendship examined: A brief outline of classic, modern and late modernity approaches -- Chapter 3: Caveats surrounding the meaning of disability and friendship : Disability Studies and Disability Theology Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Reconsidering the Friendship Anthropology: The implication of Vulnerability and Solicitude
Summary This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the respect for human dignity and the person's vulnerability as the criterion in reconsidering such an anthropology. The reality of disability is not only the reality of being in the world, but also concerns the concept of the meaning of otherness and being created as an image of God. The constructive critique that the emergence of disability as a human condition posits to theo-anthropological and ethical concepts is the quest of the renewal of theo-anthropological and ethical knowledge on the meaning of disability, otherness and friendship. The theological and anthropological entities, such as disability and friendship, are interconnected in a sense that the meaning of the one needs to be explained in the light of the other, and vice versa. The renewal of certain anthropological categories in such regard is a search for a deeper understanding of humanity, not apart from, but in light of, the presence of disability. The book examines the anthropological and theological systems regarding the theme of friendship and disability
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2023)
Subject Friendship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Friendship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031338168
3031338162