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Author van van Ommen, Armand Léon

Title Disciples and Friends Investigations in Disability, Dementia, and Mental Health
Published Waco : Baylor University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (331 p.)
Contents Front Cover -- Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- I: Practical Theology in a Swintonian Key -- 1. Enacting a Theology of Disability: Framing Swinton -- 2. Exploring the World through a Theological Lens: "Swintonian" Practical Theology -- 3. Worship and Discipleship as Meta-Themes in the Theology of John Swinton -- II: Vulnerability Subverted -- 4. The Subversion of Strength and Weakness: Paul's Grammar of Salvation and Autism -- 5. On Disability and the Dread of Vulnerability -- 6. Does L'Arche Need Another Saint?
7. Being Remembered When We Forget: Finding God in Dementia and Suffering -- III: Quests for Faithful Embodiment -- 8. Bearing the Reality of Dementia -- 9. Navigating Mental Health: A Personal Narrative -- 10. "I Could Not for the Life of Me Remember His Name!": Dementia Care in Australia -- 11. All God's Children Got a Place in the Choir: Discipleship, Disability, and Dementia -- IV: Gently Living in a Violent World -- 12. Belonging -- 13. The Being of Friendship: An Essay in Honor of the Tired John Swinton -- 14. The Practice of Health Care and the Gentleness of Jesus -- 15. Peace
Afterword: On Following Jesus into the Shadows -- Contributors -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Swinton, John, 1957-
Mental health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Dementia -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Theology, Practical.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Dementia -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Mental health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Theology, Practical
Form Electronic book
Author Brock, Brian R
ISBN 9781481317030
1481317032