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Human Disability and the Service of God

Reassessing Religious Practice

by Nancy Eiesland

  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Abingdon Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm

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A living religious tradition continually reassesses its practices. In our contemporary situation, the task of reassessment must attend to the presence of persons with disabilities who are increasingly taking part in public life and therefore in the worship and work of the churches. What questions, insights, and perspectives should be advanced if people with disabilities, in all their diversity, were placed at the center of religious life and education? The fourteen contributors to this volume address this multi-faceted question. Drawing upon various disciplines and diverse experiences, the authors explore how human disability bears upon the service of God. In turn, the chapters examine how the participation of people with disabilities relates to interpretation of biblical and other sacred texts that speak of sin, disability, and healing; what theological vision is necessary to integrate the disabled into Christian life and worship; what the socio-cultural context is within which people with disabilities press for full inclusion; and how worship, as a theological act, can form communities in a more relevant spirituality of inclusiveness. Congregations are challenged by these writers to re-envision their actual practices of communal life and worship. This collaborative work shows that the "service of God" as liturgy and as communal accountability can deepen and mature only as the diversity of human capabilities is honored.
Human Disability and the Service of God and The Air We Breathe
The Air We BreatheHuman Disability and the Service of God

  • Author

    Nancy Eiesland

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Abingdon Press

  • Published

    August 1998

  • Editor

    Nancy L. Eiesland;Don E. Saliers

  • Weight

    464g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780687273164

  • ISBN-10

    0687273161

  • Eden Code

    116288

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