Receiving the gift of friendship
Subtitle: profound disability, theological anthropology, and ethics
By: Hans S. Reinders.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802862327
Subjects: Mental retardation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Friendship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Theological anthropology; Christian ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: The subject; title: A new vision; title: Beyond rights and justice; title: Intelligible experience; title: The program; title: Profound disability; title: One of us; title: Introducing Kelly; title: The hierarchy of disability; title: The problem and its problems; title: No moral taxonomy; title: A theological inquiry; title: The politics of friendship; title: Terminology; title: "Being human" and "being disabled" I; title: A preliminary objection; title: Social constructionism; title: The social model of disability; title: "Disability identity"; title: The realist version of social constructionism; title: Invention and discovery; title: Freedom of the self as our final end; title: Conclusion; title: "Being human" and "being disabled" II; title: Roman Catholic doctrine on being human; title: The anthropological ambiguity of natural law; title: A hierarchy of being; title: Marginal cases; title: Agere sequitur esse; title: Potentiality and actualization; title: The theological option; title: The disabled person as mystery; title: Profound disability and the quest for the good; title: A different agenda; title: The good of being human; title: "Disability culture"; title: The ethics of access; title: Distinct motivations; title: Participation in the good of being human; title: Theology; title: Theology and disability I; title: Introduction; title: A theology of liberation; title: Self-representation; title: Moving from outside in; title: Breaking the barrier; title: "The others who care"; title: A theology of access; title: "Beyond access"; title: Theology and disability II; title: Introduction; title: Digging up presuppositions; title: "Suffering presence"; title: Writing about the disabled; title: "A theology of human being"; title: The contributory view of worth; title: No instrumental value; title: The goodness of being; title: "Freely creative activity"; title: Conclusion; title: A trinitarian concept of divine and human being; title: Introduction: intrinsic qualities; title: The double portrait of man; title: "Relationality"; title: Trinitarian theology and "relational being"; title: The contribution of John D. Zizioulas; title: Ecstatic personhood as ecclesial reality; title: Zizioulas's critics; title: Extrinsic movement; title: Conclusion; title: Ethics; title: The fullness of being: God's friendship; title: Introduction: three responses; title: Difference; title: "Activities that direct us to God"; title: "Poised between chaos and cosmos"; title: From first to last : all is grace; title: Disability as moral failure?; title: Steadfast love without reciprocation; title: Receiving the gift of friendship; title: Introduction; title: Receiving; title: The story of a man born blind; title: Seeing; title: Three caveats; title: Being with; title: No hiding in strength; title: Moments of wonder; title: Learning to become friends; title: Introduction; title: My friend Ronald; title: "We are friends, aren't we?"; title: Aristotle's friends; title: Christian friendship; title: Eucharistic practice; title: The face of friendship; title: Friendship with the profoundly disabled.