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The Paradox of Disability
Responses to Jean Vanier and L’Arche Communities
from Theology and the Sciences
Hans S. Reinders, editor
The village of Trosly-Breuil in northern France is home to one of the world’s
thirty-four L’Arche communities, where people with and without intellectual
disabilities live and work together. In 2007 the impressive group of social scientists
and theologians who contribute to this book gathered there to respond
to a question posed by the worldwide community’s cofounder, Jean Vanier:
“What have people with disabilities taught me?”
Editor Hans Reinders emphasizes that the purpose of these analyses and
reflections is not to set those with disabilities apart. He explains that it is not
their being disabled that makes them special, but rather that sharing their
experience enables us to see things that we other wise readily ignore — and
to understand the fullness of what it means to be human.
Hans S. Reinders is the Bernard Lievegoed Professor of Ethics and Mental
Disability at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is also the author of Receiving
the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics.
Ethics • Theology
August / 978-0-8028-6511-3
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192 pages / $18.00 [£11.99]
Christology and Ethics
F. LeRon Shults and Brent Waters, editors
This book brings together leading theologians and ethicists to explore the
neglected relationship between Christology and ethics. The contributors to this
volume work to overcome the tendency toward disciplinary xenophobia,
considering such questions as What is the relation between faithful teaching about the
reality of Christ and teaching faithfulness to the way of Christ? and How is christological
doctrine related to theological judgments about normative human agency? With renewed
attention and creative reformulation, they argue, we can discover fresh ways of
tending to these perennial questions.
Contributors: Jan-Olav Henriksen, Lois Malcolm, F. LeRon Shults, Kathryn
Tanner, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Bernd Wannenwetsch, Brent Waters, John
Webster.
F. LeRon Shults is professor of theology and philosophy at the University
of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. Brent Waters is Jerre and Mary Joy Stead
Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary,
Evanston, Illinois.
Christology • Ethics
Available / 978-0-8028-4509-2
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231 pages / $28.00 [£18.99]
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