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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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The Subject | |
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A New Vision | |
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Beyond Rights and Justice | |
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Intelligible Experience | |
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The Program | |
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Profound Disability | |
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One of Us | |
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Introducing Kelly | |
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The Hierarchy of Disability | |
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The Problem and Its Problems | |
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No Moral Taxonomy | |
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A Theological Inquiry | |
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The Politics of Friendship | |
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Terminology | |
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"Being Human" and "Being Disabled" I | |
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A Preliminary Objection | |
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Social Constructionism | |
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The Social Model of Disability | |
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"Disability Identity" | |
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The Realist Version of Social Constructionism | |
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Invention and Discovery | |
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Freedom of the Self as Our Final End | |
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Conclusion | |
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"Being Human" and "Being Disabled" II | |
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Roman Catholic Doctrine on Being Human | |
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The Anthropological Ambiguity of Natural Law | |
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A Hierarchy of Being | |
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Marginal Cases | |
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Agere sequitur esse | |
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Potentiality and Actualization | |
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The Theological Option | |
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The Disabled Person as Mystery | |
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Profound Disability and the Quest for the Good | |
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A Different Agenda | |
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The Good of Being Human | |
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"Disability Culture" | |
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The Ethics of Access | |
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Distinct Motivations | |
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Participation in the Good of Being Human | |
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Theology | |
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Theology and Disability I | |
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Introduction | |
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A Theology of Liberation | |
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Self-Representation | |
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Moving from Outside In | |
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Breaking the Barrier | |
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"The Others Who Care" | |
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A Theology of Access | |
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"Beyond Access" | |
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Theology and Disability II | |
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Introduction | |
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Digging Up Presuppositions | |
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"Suffering Presence" | |
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Writing about the Disabled | |
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"A Theology of Human Being" | |
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The Contributory View of Worth | |
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No Instrumental Value | |
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The Goodness of Being | |
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"Freely Creative Activity" | |
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Conclusion | |
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A Trinitarian Concept of Divine and Human Being | |
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Introduction: Intrinsic Qualities | |
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The Double Portrait of Man | |
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"Relationality" | |
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Trinitarian Theology and "Relational Being" | |
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The Contribution of John D. Zizioulas | |
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Ecstatic Personhood as Ecclesial Reality | |
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Zizioulas's Critics | |
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Extrinsic Movement | |
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Conclusion | |
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Ethics | |
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The Fullness of Being: God's Friendship | |
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Introduction: Three Responses | |
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Difference | |
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"Activities That Direct Us to God" | |
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"Poised between Chaos and Cosmos" | |
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From First to Last: All Is Grace | |
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Disability as Moral Failure? | |
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Steadfast Love without Reciprocation | |
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Receiving the Gift of Friendship | |
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Introduction | |
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Receiving | |
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The Story of a Man Born Blind | |
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Seeing | |
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Three Caveats | |
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Being With | |
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No Hiding in Strength | |
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Moments of Wonder | |
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Learning to Become Friends | |
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Introduction | |
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My Friend Ronald | |
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"We Are Friends, Aren't We?" | |
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Aristotle's Friends | |
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Christian Friendship | |
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Eucharistic Practice | |
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The Face of Friendship | |
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Friendship with the Profoundly Disabled | |
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Postscript | |
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Literature | |
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Index | |