The Bible, Disability, and the Church

by Yong, Amos

• ISBN13: 9780802866080
• ISBN10: 0802866085
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Atheologian whose life experience includes growing up alongside a brother with Down syndrome, Amos Yong in this book rereads and reinterprets biblical texts about human disability, arguing that the way we read biblical texts, not the Bible itself, is what causes us to marginalize persons with disabilities. Revealing and examining the underlying stigma of disability that exists even in the church, Yong shows how the Bible offers good news to people of all abilities and he challenges churches to become more inclusive communities of faith. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Amos Yong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, Virginia. His other books include In the Days of Caesar, Theology and Down Syndrome, and Hospitality and the Other.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Disability and the People of God - Whole or Fragmented?	p. 1
Growing Up with a Brother with Down Syndrome	p. 1
Making Theological Sense of a World with Disability	p. 5
Disability and Our Contemporary Social Context	p. 8
An Overview of This Book: Its Method and Contents	p. 13
Holiness, the Covenant, and Ancient Israel: Exclusion, Inclusion, and Disability	p. 17
Introduction	p. 17
Disability, Holiness, and the Covenant: At the Fount of the Christian Theological Tradition	p. 18
Redeeming Disability and Leviticus? Christian Readings	p. 24
Re-reading the Wider Hebrew Bible: Disability Narratives and Other Genres	p. 29
Jacob, Israel, and the Limp	p. 30
The Davidic Kingdom and Mephibosheth	p. 32
Job and the Redemption of Monstrosity	p. 35
Disability and Lament? Toward a New (First Testament) Theology of Disability	p. 40
Summary	p. 46
Study Questions	p. 47
What Hath Dr. Luke and His Colleagues to Say? Jesus, the Early Church, and a (Radical Pentecostal) Theology of Disability	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
Seeing (through) Dis/Ability: The Case of the Man Born Blind (John 9)	p. 50
Disability in the Synoptics: Traditional Understandings, Disability Interrogations	p. 57
Rethinking (Early) Christian Physiognomy: Redeeming Luke-Acts	p. 63
Pentecost and a New Theology of Diverse Dis/Abilities	p. 69
The Miracle of Pentecost: A Disability-Inclusive Reading	p. 70
The Epistemology of Pentecost: Many Tongues, Many Senses, Many Abilities	p. 73
The Hermeneutics of Pentecost: Dis/Ability Kinesthetics and a Theology of Witness	p. 75
Summary	p. 79
Study Questions	p. 80
One Body, Many Members: St. Paul's Charismatic Ecclesiology and the Renewal of Dis/Ability	p. 82
Introduction	p. 82
"In Weakness We Are Made Strong": Was St. Paul the First Theologian of Disability?	p. 83
Honoring the "Weaker" Member: A Disability Ecclesiology and Charismology	p. 90
God Has Chosen the Foolishness of the World: Intellectual Disability and Ecclesiology	p. 96
Foolishness: God's, the World's, and That of People with Intellectual Disability	p. 97
Whose Folly, Which Foolishness? Christ, the Cross, and the Redemption of Intellectual Disability	p. 100
One Body, Many Members and Ministries: Toward an Inclusive Ecclesiology	p. 104
Ecclesial Inclusion of People with Disabilities	p. 106
Ministry to and with People with Intellectual Disabilities	p. 109
Hospitality for and of People with Profound Disabilities	p. 112
Summary	p. 115
Study Questions	p. 116
When There Shall Be No More Tears: Eschatology, the Reign of God, and the Redemption of Disability	p. 118
Introduction	p. 118
The Resurrection Body: Traditional Expectations, Disability Interrogations	p. 119
Jesus' (Resurrected) Body: The (Eschatological) Marks of Impairment	p. 125
No More Tears! Disability, Hospitality, and the Reign of God	p. 130
Eschatology and the Enabling of Judgment: Disability Mediations	p. 136
Summary	p. 142
Study Questions	p. 142
Epilogue: The New Biblical Theology of Disability: So What?	p. 145
Appendix: Disability at Qumran	p. 148
For Further Reading	p. 149
Name Index	p. 152
Subject Index	p. 155
Scripture Index	p. 158
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