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Disabling mission, enabling witness : exploring missiology through the lens of disability studies / Benjamin T. Conner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Missiological engagementsPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, and imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780830850938
  • 0830850937
  • 9780830885688
  • 0830885684
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disabling mission, enabling witness.DDC classification:
  • 266.0087 23
LOC classification:
  • BV2063 .C66 2018
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1829128

Includes indexes.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2019).

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.