The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
The Bible has plenty to say about human disability; most of it is negative. Yet Amos Yong -- a theologian whose life experience includes growing up alongside a brother with Down syndrome -- argues that it is the way we read biblical texts, not the Bible itself, that causes us unthinkingly to marginalize those with disabilities. Applying a hermeneutics of suspicion to traditional methods of interpreting the Bible, Yong rereads and reinterprets texts from the Old Testament, John, Luke-Acts, and Paul from the perspective of people with disabilities. Revealing and dismantling the underlying stigma of disability that exists even in the church, he…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8028-6608-0
- EAN: 9780802866080
- Produktnummer: 11357651
- Verlag: William B Eerdmans Pub Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 161 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.5 cm 258 g
- Gewicht: 258
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