Mission and People with Disabilities
This article begins with a few thoughts and some historical and canonical encounters about how lay and ordained people with disabilities have been involved in Orthodox mission work in the past. It then presents two concrete contemporary situations in which people with disabilities are involved in Or...
| Published in: | International review of mission |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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International review of mission
Year: 2019, Volume: 108, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-111 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBK Europe (East) KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDF Orthodox Church NBE Anthropology RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
B People with disability and Orthodox mission B Didymus the Blind B Orthodox canon / law on ordination of men with disabilities B Father Theophilus Paraian |
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| Summary: | This article begins with a few thoughts and some historical and canonical encounters about how lay and ordained people with disabilities have been involved in Orthodox mission work in the past. It then presents two concrete contemporary situations in which people with disabilities are involved in Orthodox ordained ministry work despite the persisting tradition that disabled people not be ordained. The first example is taken from the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, where the involvement of people with disabilities in both ordained and lay ministry provides significant support for a church that lives in a delicate situation. The second example is taken from the Romanian Orthodox Church and presents the case of Father Theophilus Paraian, one of the most prominent contemporary Romanian Orthodox monastic figures, who served as an ordained priest despite his disability. This article pleads for a deeper involvement of disabled people in both ordained and lay ministry in Orthodox churches. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12265 |