A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability: Human Being as Mutuality and Response

by Molly Claire Haslam

Book Overview

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 choicesand has ignored the value of individuals who lack such intellectual capacities.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823239403
• ISBN13: 9780823239405
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"