Disability: Living into the Diversity of Christ’s Body (Pastoring for Life: Theological Wisdom for Ministering Well)
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Overview
Leading ethicist and pastoral theologian Brian Brock reflects on the challenge of disability, refuting widely held misconceptions and helping readers respond well to the pastoral implications of disability. Brock, the father of a child with special needs, weaves together theological commentary with narrative reflection, offering rich theological wisdom for shepherding people with disabilities. He shows pastors and ministers-in-training that thinking more closely and theologically about disability is a doorway into a more vibrant and welcoming church life for all Christians.
Pastors are called to help people navigate the profound mysteries of being human, from birth to death and everything in between. This series, edited by leading pastoral theologian Jason Byassee, provides pastors and pastors-in-training with rich theological reflection on the various seasons that make up a human life, helping them minister with greater wisdom and joy.
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- Offers rich theological wisdom for shepherding people with disabilities
- Helps readers respond well to the pastoral implications of disability
- Refutes widely held misconceptions
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Nobody with Disabilities in Our Church
- Jesus Heals Everyone He Meets
- God Chose You Because He Knew You Could Handle It
- Disability Is a Tragic Effect of the Fall
- We Don’t Know Where to Start
- Afterword
- Title: Disability: Living into the Diversity of Christ’s Body
- Author: Brian Brock
- Series: Pastoring for Life: Theological Wisdom for Ministering Well
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 180
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Church work with people with disabilities; People with disabilities › Religious life
- ISBNs: 9781493430789, 9781540962973, 9781540964212, 9781493430642, 1493430785, 1540962970, 1540964213, 1493430645
- Resource ID: LLS:DISABILITY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-23T19:27:39Z
Brian Brock (PhD, King's College, London) is chair of moral and practical theology at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. He has written scholarly works on the use of the Bible in Christian ethics, the ethics of technological development, and the theology of disability, including Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture. He is managing editor of the Journal of Disability and Religion, founder and managing editor of the T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics, and president of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics.