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