reimagining disability in late modernity Yong, Amos. creator text bibliography txu Waco, Tex Baylor University Press c2007 2007 monographic eng

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xiii, 450 p. 23 cm. Anticipating Down syndrome and disability. Introduction : narrating and imagining Down syndrome and disability ; The blind, the deaf, and the lame : biblical and historical trajectories -- Down syndrome and disability in the modern world. Medicalizing Down syndrome : disability in the world of modern science ; Deconstructing and reconstructing disability : late modern discourses ; Disability in context : feminist, cultural, and world religious perspectives -- Reimagining and renewing theology in late modernity : enabling a disabled world. Reimagining the doctrines of creation, providence, and the imago Dei : rehabilitating Down syndrome and disability ; Renewing ecclesiology : Down syndrome, disability, and the community of those being redeemed ; Rethinking soteriology : on saving Down syndrome and disability ; Resurrecting Down syndrome and disability : heaven and the healing of the world. Amos Yong. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-432) and indexes. People with disabilities Religious aspects Christianity Church work with people with disabilities Down syndrome Religious aspects Christianity BT732.7 .Y66 2007 261.8322 Y55t 9781602580060 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1602580065 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007028566 DLC 070711 20160527201834.0 288815