Pastoral Relationship with People with Intellectual ... - Theses

44CHAPTER TWOGUIDING VALUES, USE OF METAPHORAND DISABILITY MODELLING"One of the things that pastoral care can distinctively offer is care situated within thequest for meaning and generative symbols." 62“ ... the concepts employed to distinguish among groups of people [who live withdisablement] are not purely scientific, descriptive concepts, but have a value-baseddimension.” 63“To understand how the power of definition [of disability] is exercised and experienced,we have to ask who does the defining in practice, for what purposes and with whatconsequences for those who are deemed to fit the definitions.” 6462 Pattison, Stephen. "Some Objections to Aims and Objectives." In The Challenge ofPractical Theology: Selected Essays, edited by Stephen Pattison, 90-109. (London andPhiladelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007), 10663 Edwards, Steven. "Definitions of Disability: Ethics and Other Values." In Arguing AboutDisability: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas andTom Shakespeare, 30-41. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), 30.Bracketed words are those of thesis author.64 Wendell, Susan. The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability.(New York and London: Routledge, 1996), 23.Bracketed words are those of thesis author.