| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 205 pages) |
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A doctor's debt to Stanley Hauerwas / David L. Coulter -- Hauerwas on disability / John Swinton -- Timeful friends: living with the handicapped / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: the need of strangers / Jean Vanier -- Response: making yourself useful / Michael Bérubé -- Community and diversity: the tyranny of normality / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: whose table for "the retarded"? / John O'Brien -- The church and the mentally handicapped: a continuing challenge to the imagination / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: the limits of our practices / Jeff McNair -- The gesture of a truthful story / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: on discovering saints and making a difference / Aileen Barclay -- Suffering the retarded: should we prevent retardation? / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: thoughts on suffering: a parent's view / Hazel Morgan |
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Must a patient be a person to be a patient? or, my uncle Charlie is not much of a person but he is still my uncle Charlie / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: the ground and grammar of personhood / Ray Anderson -- The retarded and the criteria for the human / Stanley Hauerwas -- Suffering, medical ethics and the retarded child / Stanley Hauerwas -- A response: retarded children or retarded ethics? / Christopher Newell -- Having and learning to care for retarded children / Stanley Hauerwas -- The retarded, society, and the family: the dilemma of care / Stanley Hauerwas -- Response: on the significance of caring / Linda L. Treloar -- Reflection on dependency: a response to responses to my essays on disability / Stanley Hauerwas |
| Summary |
?No other mainstream theologian has so consistently and trenchantly taken a stand with and for people with developmental disabilities.??John SwintonCritical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology examines the influential writings of one of the most important contemporary theologians. Over the past thirty years, Time magazine Theologian of the Year (2001) Dr. Stanley Hauerwas has consistently presented a theological position which values the deep theological significance of people with developmental disabilities, as well as thei |
| Notes |
"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of religion, disability & health, volume 8, numbers 3/4 2004." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-
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| SUBJECT |
Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940- fast |
| Subject |
Developmental disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Developmental disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-
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Swinton, John, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9781136432767 |
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1136432760 |
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9780203051122 |
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0203051122 |
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1283884127 |
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9781283884129 |
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