The Enabled Life: Christianity in a Disabling World - Couverture souple

McCloughry, Roy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0281062781 ISBN 13 : 9780281062782

Editeur : SPCK Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

As a much-published author, social commentator and academic, Roy McCloughry is ideally placed to make the latest theological thinking about disability accessible to a wide audience. As a person living with epilepsy who regards his condition, as a 'strange gift' from God - he brings rich personal experience of what it's like to live as a disabled person in a world where acceptance frequently relies on the appearance of normality. Attitudes in the Church too can be strangely unsettling. People are often embarrassed or fearful in encountering disabled people, who are, if the Bible is to be believed, at the heart of the kingdom of God. After all, God does not want us to conform to society's stereotype of what is normal, but to celebrate diversity by delighting in who we are. We do not need to be 'cured' to know God's healing, empowering love in our lives. Indeed, as Roy's deeply moving interview with Jean Vanier underlines, the 'abled' may well discover their true humanity through learning from those whose humanity has sometimes been called into question.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roy McCloughry is director of Kingdom Trust, a consultancy on applied social ethics, and Tutor in Ethics and Social Theology at St John's College, Nottingham. He has had personal experience of disability, having been epileptic since birth. His daughter was recently cured of epilepsy through brain surgery, against all the odds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SPCK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0281062781
• ISBN 13: 9780281062782
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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