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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Notes | |
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| Theology and Disability: Perils and Promises | |
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| A Disabling Theology or a Theology of Disability? | |
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| Defining Disability beyond the Medical Model | |
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| Understanding Disability Christianly: Is Disability a Tragedy to Be Undone? | |
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| Beyond Theodicy? | |
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| Toward a Hermeneutic of Disability | |
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| Dismantling Alienating Notions of Disability: Developing a Typology | |
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| Avoiding the Theological Denigration of Disability | |
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| Avoiding the Theological Trivialization of Disability | |
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| Conclusion: Toward a Wider Horizon for Theological Thinking about Disability | |
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| Notes | |
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| Communal Boundaries: Dwelling Together and the Cult of Normalcy | |
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| The Human Need for Welcome | |
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| Fundamental Trust-A Desire for "Home" | |
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| Home as Dwelling Together | |
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| Social Boundaries: Ability and Disability | |
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| Community and Identity-Frameworks of the Good | |
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| Recognition, Value, and the Good: Into the Sway of the Cult of Normalcy | |
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| Economies of Exchange | |
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| Body Capital-Measuring Exchange Value | |
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| The Cult of Normalcy | |
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| Outside the Good | |
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| Stigma-The Spoiled Body | |
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| Taboo-Prohibiting the Abnormal | |
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| Conclusion: Against "Normalization"? | |
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| Able Bodies? The Illusion of Control and Denial of Vulnerability | |
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| Theoretical Roots of the Modern Notion of Personhood | |
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| Problems with Equality, Freedom, Independence, and Reason | |
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| Ironic Equality-Like "Us" | |
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| Ironic Self-sufficiency and Freedom-Dis-abling Ability? | |
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| Ironically Rational-Routing the Irrational (Reason-unable?) | |
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| Managing the Body: The Productive Imperative | |
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| Wealth Accumulation | |
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| Efficiency-A Competitive Edge on Time | |
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| Novelty-The Tyranny of the New | |
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| The Person as Consumer-Empowered to Purchase | |
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| Beautiful, Youthful, and Able Bodies | |
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| Conclusion: Spiritual Self-Interest? | |
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| Recovering Disability: The Strange Power of "Weakness" | |
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| Vulnerability: Reassessing Wholeness and Disability | |
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| Dependence-Rethinking "Normal" | |
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| The Difficult Strength of Vulnerability-Neediness and the Reality of Suffering | |
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| Encountering Disability, Suffering the Other | |
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| Creative Openings-An Autobiographical Excursus on Love | |
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| Against Pity and Charity? | |
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| Getting Closer-Loving Chris | |
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| Relational Wholeness: Love's Interdependence | |
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| The Strange Power of Weakness-Enabling Love | |
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| Love-To Welcome the Presence of the Other | |
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| The Moral Fabric of Love: Availability | |
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| Respect-Giving Way for the Other | |
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| Fidelity-Faithfulness to the Other | |
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| Compassion-Sympathy with the Other, for Its Well-being | |
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| Conclusion: Empowering Community | |
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| Love Divine: Vulnerability, Creation, and God | |
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| Love and Conversion to God | |
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| Gratitude-Existence as Gift | |
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| Hope-Relation beyond Tragedy | |
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| The Sense of God-An Extraordinary Possibility in Vulnerable Ordinariness | |
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| Creation's God: A Theological Matrix | |
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| God's Transcendence and the Redemptive Encounter | |
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| Naming God's Redemptive Presence | |
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| God's Creative Power: Toward a Theology of Creation | |
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| In the Beginning, God | |
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| Creation Called into Being | |
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| Creation from Nothing | |
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| Continuing Creation and Providence | |
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| Creation a Free Act of God | |
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| Creation as Gift, Loved into Being | |
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| Relation and Vulnerability in God and Creation | |
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| Creation's Difference, God's Giving | |
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| Creation and the Tragic | |
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| Divine Vulnerability and Tragedy | |
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| Conclusion: Theology of Creation in a Key of Gratitude and Hope | |
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| Worthy of Love? Humanity, Disability, and Redemption in Christ | |
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| Reconsidering the Imago Dei | |
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| Imago Dei as Imitatio Dei | |
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| Imago Dei as Creativity-Human Being as a Cocreative Agent of God | |
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| Imago Dei as Relationality-Human Being as Embodied along with Others | |
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| Imago Dei as Availability-Human Being as Freedom for Love | |
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| The Imago Dei and Disability | |
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| Sin's Tragedy and the Possibility of Redemption | |
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| Sin-Creative Freedom for Love Gone Awry | |
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| Sin, Idolatry, and the Possibility of Redemption | |
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| Reconsidering Redemption in Jesus Christ | |
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| Jesus as the Icon of a Vulnerable God-Redemptive Revelation | |
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| Jesus-The Fully Human Person | |
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| Jesus as God's Solidarity with Humanity-Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection | |
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| Conclusion: Reversing Disability's Disability | |
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| Being Together: Love, Church, and Hospitality | |
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| To Love as Christ Loves: Loving Chris as Christ Loves and Loving Christ as Chris Loves | |
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| The Strange Kingdom of God: Restoring the Imago Dei in Right Relationships | |
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| The Creative Power of Inclusion-Welcoming (in) the Kingdom | |
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| Healing Power-Welcome, Transformation, and Wholeness | |
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| Cross as Inclusive Solidarity-The Power of Inability | |
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| Disability and the Imitation of Christ | |
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| The Strange Household of God: Church as the Ongoing Presence of Christ | |
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| Church as the Household of God-A New Covenant | |
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| Church as the Body of Christ | |
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| Church as Anticipation-The Not Yet Kingdom of God | |
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| Hospitality: Welcoming (in) the Spirit | |
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| Hospitality-Inspirited Openness to the Other | |
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| Hospitality and Disability | |
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| Conclusion: Kindling Hope for the Church as a Communion of Strangers | |
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| Index | |