Disabling mission, enabling witness : exploring missiology through the lens of disability studies /
Conner, Benjamin T.,
Disabling mission, enabling witness : exploring missiology through the lens of disability studies / Benjamin T. Conner. - 1 online resource. - Missiological engagements . - Missiological engagements. .
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage -- An introduction to disability studies for mission studies -- An introduction to mission studies for disability studies -- Toward enabling witness -- Deaf to the ways of God -- Intellectual disabilities and our iconic witness -- [Dis]abling theological education -- Enabling witness.
How would it look if we ""disabled"" Christian theology, discipleship, and theological education? Benjamin Conner initiates a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology and missiology, imagining a church that fully incorporates persons with disabilities into its mission. In this vision, people with disabilities are part of the church's pluriform witness, and the congregation embodies a robust hermeneutic of the gospel.
9780830850938 0830850937 9780830885688 0830885684
2018016437
Missions.
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Handicap--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
RELIGION--Christian Ministry--Missions.
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity
Missions
Electronic books.
BV2063 / .C66 2018
266.0087
Disabling mission, enabling witness : exploring missiology through the lens of disability studies / Benjamin T. Conner. - 1 online resource. - Missiological engagements . - Missiological engagements. .
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage -- An introduction to disability studies for mission studies -- An introduction to mission studies for disability studies -- Toward enabling witness -- Deaf to the ways of God -- Intellectual disabilities and our iconic witness -- [Dis]abling theological education -- Enabling witness.
How would it look if we ""disabled"" Christian theology, discipleship, and theological education? Benjamin Conner initiates a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology and missiology, imagining a church that fully incorporates persons with disabilities into its mission. In this vision, people with disabilities are part of the church's pluriform witness, and the congregation embodies a robust hermeneutic of the gospel.
9780830850938 0830850937 9780830885688 0830885684
2018016437
Missions.
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Handicap--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
RELIGION--Christian Ministry--Missions.
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity
Missions
Electronic books.
BV2063 / .C66 2018
266.0087