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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Disability and the People of God - Whole or Fragmented? | |
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| Growing Up with a Brother with Down Syndrome | |
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| Making Theological Sense of a World with Disability | |
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| Disability and Our Contemporary Social Context | |
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| An Overview of This Book: Its Method and Contents | |
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| Holiness, the Covenant, and Ancient Israel: Exclusion, Inclusion, and Disability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Disability, Holiness, and the Covenant: At the Fount of the Christian Theological Tradition | |
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| Redeeming Disability and Leviticus? Christian Readings | |
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| Re-reading the Wider Hebrew Bible: Disability Narratives and Other Genres | |
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| Jacob, Israel, and the Limp | |
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| The Davidic Kingdom and Mephibosheth | |
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| Job and the Redemption of Monstrosity | |
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| Disability and Lament? Toward a New (First Testament) Theology of Disability | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| What Hath Dr. Luke and His Colleagues to Say? Jesus, the Early Church, and a (Radical Pentecostal) Theology of Disability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Seeing (through) Dis/Ability: The Case of the Man Born Blind (John 9) | |
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| Disability in the Synoptics: Traditional Understandings, Disability Interrogations | |
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| Rethinking (Early) Christian Physiognomy: Redeeming Luke-Acts | |
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| Pentecost and a New Theology of Diverse Dis/Abilities | |
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| The Miracle of Pentecost: A Disability-Inclusive Reading | |
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| The Epistemology of Pentecost: Many Tongues, Many Senses, Many Abilities | |
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| The Hermeneutics of Pentecost: Dis/Ability Kinesthetics and a Theology of Witness | |
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| Summary | |
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| One Body, Many Members: St. Paul's Charismatic Ecclesiology and the Renewal of Dis/Ability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "In Weakness We Are Made Strong": Was St. Paul the First Theologian of Disability? | |
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| Honoring the "Weaker" Member: A Disability Ecclesiology and Charismology | |
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| God Has Chosen the Foolishness of the World: Intellectual Disability and Ecclesiology | |
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| Foolishness: God's, the World's, and That of People with Intellectual Disability | |
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| Whose Folly, Which Foolishness? Christ, the Cross, and the Redemption of Intellectual Disability | |
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| One Body, Many Members and Ministries: Toward an Inclusive Ecclesiology | |
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| Ecclesial Inclusion of People with Disabilities | |
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| Ministry to and with People with Intellectual Disabilities | |
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| Hospitality for and of People with Profound Disabilities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| When There Shall Be No More Tears: Eschatology, the Reign of God, and the Redemption of Disability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Resurrection Body: Traditional Expectations, Disability Interrogations | |
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| Jesus' (Resurrected) Body: The (Eschatological) Marks of Impairment | |
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| No More Tears! Disability, Hospitality, and the Reign of God | |
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| Eschatology and the Enabling of Judgment: Disability Mediations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Epilogue: The New Biblical Theology of Disability: So What? | |
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| Appendix: Disability at Qumran | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Scripture Index | |