In the image of God: Receiving children with special needs
The Christian tradition holds that children are welcomed as gifts of God. The birth of a child with special needs, particularly one with profound intellectual disability, often provokes questions for families about what it means to receive such a child as “gift.” Likewise, the lives of these childre...
| Published in: | Review and expositor |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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Review and expositor
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology RB Church office; congregation RG Pastoral care |
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| Summary: | The Christian tradition holds that children are welcomed as gifts of God. The birth of a child with special needs, particularly one with profound intellectual disability, often provokes questions for families about what it means to receive such a child as “gift.” Likewise, the lives of these children invite deep theological reflection on how churches portray what it means to be human and to flourish as creatures in God’s image. This article considers the experience of families receiving a child with special needs and the theological questions raised by these lives, and offers some direction for how churches might begin to imagine ways in which the children and their families can be embraced into the life of the church. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637316638244 |