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A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability: Human Being as Mutuality and Response
Contributor(s): Haslam, Molly C. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0823239411     ISBN-13: 9780823239412
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE: $32.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - Anthropology
- Social Science | People With Disabilities
- Religion | Theology
Dewey: 233.5
LCCN: 2011026671
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.36" W x 8.94" L (0.46 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Physically Challenged
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Bibliography, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Responding to how little theological research has been done on intellectual (as opposed to physical) disability, this book asks, on behalf of individuals with profound intellectual disabilities, what it means to be human. That question has traditionally been answered with an emphasis on an intellectual capacity the ability to employ concepts or to make moral choices and has ignored the value of individuals who lack such intellectual capacities.

The author suggests, rather, that human being be understood in terms of participation in relationships of mutual responsiveness, which includes but is not limited to intellectual forms of communicating.

She supports her argument by developing a phenomenology of how an individual with a profound intellectual disability relates, drawn from her clinical experience as a physical therapist. She thereby demonstrates that these individuals participate in relationships of mutual responsiveness, though in nonsymbolic, bodily ways.

To be human, to image God, she argues, is to respond to the world around us in any number of ways, bodily or symbolically. Such an understanding does not exclude people with intellectual disabilities but rather includes them among those who participate in the image of God.

Contributor Bio(s): Haslam, Molly C.: -

MOLLY C. HASLAM is a physical therapist with twenty years of experience working with
individuals with a variety of disabilities, including those with profound intellectual disabilities.
 
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