Title A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability : Human Being As Mutuality and Response / Molly C. Haslam

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 134 pages) Contents Introduction -- Gordon Kaufman: Human Being as Intentional Agent -- George Lindbeck: Human Being as Language User -- Human Being in Relational Terms: A Phenomenology -- Martin Buber's Anthropology -- Imago Dei as Rationality or Relationality: History and Construction Summary "This book asks, on behalf of individuals with profound intellectual disabilities, what it means to be human. That question has traditionally been answered with an emphasis on an intellectual capacity--the ability to employ concepts or to make moral choices--and has ignored the value of individuals who lack such intellectual capacities. The book suggests, rather, that human beings be understood in terms of participation in relationships of mutual responsiveness, which includes but is not limited to intellectual forms of communicating. The book supports its argument by developing a phenomenology of how an individual with a profound intellectual disability relates, drawn from clinical experience as a physical therapist. The book thereby demonstrates that these individuals participate in relationships of mutual responsiveness, though in nonsymbolic, bodily ways. To be human, to image God, it argues, is to respond to the world around us in any number of ways, bodily or symbolically. Such an understanding does not exclude people with intellectual disabilities but rather includes them among those who participate in the image of God."--Publisher's abstract Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes In English Subject Human beings. Intellectual disability -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. People with mental disabilities -- Religious life Theological anthropology -- Christianity. Intellectual disability. Medicine -- Religious aspects. Intellectual Disability Philosophy, Medical -- history Religion and Medicine Humans Homo sapiens (species) intellectual disability. RELIGION -- Theology. Medicine -- Religious aspects Intellectual disability Human beings Intellectual disability -- Religious aspects -- Christianity People with mental disabilities -- Religious life Theological anthropology -- Christianity Form Electronic book LC no. 2011026671 ISBN 9780823239443 0823239446 9780823249299 0823249298

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