Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity

by Amos Yong

Book Overview

While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos Yong crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602580065
• ISBN13: 9781602580060
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"