Irresponsible Love: Rethinking Intellectual Disability, Humanity and the Church

This review essay considers three recent studies at the intersection of theology and intellectual disability. All three authors work out constructive proposals against a background of literature in which Nancy Eiesland and Stanley Hauerwas are central. Each explores the nature of intellectual disabi...

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Main Author: Volpe, Medi Ann 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2009
In: Modern theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 491-501
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Summary:This review essay considers three recent studies at the intersection of theology and intellectual disability. All three authors work out constructive proposals against a background of literature in which Nancy Eiesland and Stanley Hauerwas are central. Each explores the nature of intellectual disability through interdisciplinary study and draws this work into conversation with classical Christian theology. The essay welcomes these three books, and also suggests ways in which their constructive proposals might be strengthened. In particular, their use of resources within late ancient Christian tradition fails to take into account some of the doctrinal formulations most congenial to their projects.
ISSN:1468-0025
Contains:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2009.01538.x