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Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness eBook

Exploring Missiology Through The Lens Of Disability Studies

by Benjamin T. Conner
language: english
Publisher: IVP Academic, July of 2018 ‧
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In recent decades churches have accommodated people with disabilities in various ways. Through access ramps and elevators and sign language, disabled persons are invited in to worship. But are they actually enfolded into the church's mission? Havethe able-bodied come to recognize and appreciate the potential contributions of people with disabilities in the ministry and witness of the church?Benjamin Conner wants to stimulate a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology and missiology. How can we shape a new vision of the entire body of Christ sharing in the witness of the church? How would it look if we "disabled" Christian theology, discipleship, and theological education? Conner argues that it would in fact enable congregational witness. He has seen it happen and he shows us how. Imagine a church that fully incorporates persons with disabilities into its mission and witness. In this vision, people with disabilities contribute to the church's pluriform witness, and the congregation embodies a robust hermeneutic of the gospel. Picture the entire body of Christ functioning beyond distinctions of dis/ability, promoting mutual flourishing and growing into fullness. Here is an enlargement of the church's witness as a sign, agent, and foretaste of the kingdom of God. Here is a fresh and inspiring look at the mission of the church when it enfolds people with disabilities as full members. Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary andinnovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.

Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness

Exploring Missiology Through The Lens Of Disability Studies

by Benjamin T. Conner

Property Description
ISBN: 9780830885688
Publisher: IVP Academic
Release Date: July of 2018
Language: English
Pages: 180
Format: eBook
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Collection: Missiological Engagements
Categories: eBooks in English > Faith & Religion > Catholicism
eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9780830885688
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