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Author Conner, Benjamin T., author.

Title Disabling mission, enabling witness : exploring missiology through the lens of disability studies / Benjamin T. Conner
Published Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, and imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Missiological engagements
Missiological engagements.
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
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2019)
Subject Missions.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Missions
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018016437
ISBN 9780830850938
0830850937
9780830885688
0830885684