هم‌نشینی آسیب‌پذیر: الهیاتی از ناتوانی و مهمان‌نوازی

Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Notes......Page 24 1. Theology and Disability: Perils and Promises......Page 26 I. A Disabling Theology or a Theology of Disability?......Page 27 Defining Disability beyond the Medical Model......Page 28 Understanding Disability Christianly: Is Disability a Tragedy to Be Undone?......Page 30 II. Beyond Theodicy?......Page 33 III. Toward a Hermeneutic of Disability......Page 36 Avoiding the Theological Denigration of Disability......Page 38 Avoiding the Theological Trivialization of Disability......Page 41 Notes......Page 45 2. Communal Boundaries: Dwelling Together and the Cult of Normalcy......Page 48 I. The Human Need for Welcome......Page 50 Fundamental Trust—A Desire for “Home”......Page 51 Home as Dwelling Together......Page 53 Community and Identity—Frameworks of the Good......Page 54 III. Recognition, Value, and the Good: Into the Sway of the Cult of Normalcy......Page 57 Economies of Exchange......Page 58 Body Capital—Measuring Exchange Value......Page 59 The Cult of Normalcy......Page 60 Stigma—The Spoiled Body......Page 64 Taboo—Prohibiting the Abnormal......Page 66 Conclusion: Against “Normalization”?......Page 70 Notes......Page 71 3. Able Bodies? The Illusion of Control and Denial of Vulnerability......Page 74 I. Theoretical Roots of the Modern Notion of Personhood......Page 78 Ironic Equality—Like “Us”......Page 81 Ironic Self-sufficiency and Freedom—Dis-abling Ability?......Page 83 Ironically Rational—Routing the Irrational (Reason-unable?)......Page 85 III. Managing the Body: The Productive Imperative......Page 88 Wealth Accumulation......Page 89 Efficiency—A Competitive Edge on Time......Page 90 Novelty—The Tyranny of the New......Page 92 The Person as Consumer—Empowered to Purchase......Page 94 Beautiful, Youthful, and Able Bodies......Page 96 Conclusion: Spiritual Self-Interest?......Page 97 Notes......Page 99 4. Recovering Disability: The Strange Power of “Weakness”......Page 102 I. Vulnerability: Reassessing Wholeness and Disability......Page 104 Dependence—Rethinking “Normal”......Page 105 The Difficult Strength of Vulnerability—Neediness and the Reality of Suffering 107......Page 107 Creative Openings—An Autobiographical Excursus on Love......Page 111 Against Pity and Charity?......Page 113 The Strange Power of Weakness—Enabling Love......Page 116 Love—To Welcome the Presence of the Other......Page 118 IV. The Moral Fabric of Love: Availability......Page 122 Respect—Giving Way for the Other......Page 123 Fidelity—Faithfulness to the Other......Page 124 Compassion—Sympathy with the Other, for Its Well-being 126......Page 125 Conclusion: Empowering Community......Page 128 Notes......Page 131 5. Love Divine: Vulnerability, Creation, and God......Page 135 Gratitude—Existence as Gift......Page 137 Hope—Relation beyond Tragedy......Page 139 The Sense of God—An Extraordinary Possibility in Vulnerable Ordinariness......Page 141 II. Creation’s God: A Theological Matrix......Page 144 God’s Transcendence and the Redemptive Encounter......Page 145 Naming God’s Redemptive Presence......Page 146 III. God’s Creative Power: Toward a Theology of Creation......Page 149 In the Beginning, God......Page 150 Creation Called into Being......Page 152 Creation from Nothing......Page 153 Continuing Creation and Providence......Page 154 Creation a Free Act of God......Page 155 Creation as Gift, Loved into Being......Page 156 Creation’s Difference, God’s Giving......Page 158 Creation and the Tragic......Page 159 Divine Vulnerability and Tragedy......Page 162 Conclusion: Theology of Creation in a Key of Gratitude and Hope......Page 166 Notes......Page 168 6. Worthy of Love? Humanity, Disability, and Redemption in Christ......Page 173 Imago Dei as Imitatio Dei......Page 175 Imago Dei as Creativity—Human Being as a Cocreative Agent of God......Page 177 Imago Dei as Relationality—Human Being as Embodied along with Others......Page 178 Imago Dei as Availability—Human Being as Freedom for Love......Page 179 The Imago Dei and Disability......Page 184 II. Sin’s Tragedy and the Possibility of Redemption......Page 185 Sin—Creative Freedom for Love Gone Awry......Page 186 Sin, Idolatry, and the Possibility of Redemption......Page 191 III. Reconsidering Redemption in Jesus Christ......Page 194 Jesus as the Icon of a Vulnerable God—Redemptive Revelation......Page 195 Jesus—The Fully Human Person......Page 198 Jesus as God’s Solidarity with Humanity—Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection......Page 199 Conclusion: Reversing Disability’s Disability......Page 206 Notes......Page 208 7. Being Together: Love, Church, and Hospitality......Page 211 I. To Love as Christ Loves: Loving Chris as Christ Loves and Loving Christ as Chris Loves......Page 212 II. The Strange Kingdom of God: Restoring the Imago Dei in Right Relationships......Page 215 The Creative Power of Inclusion—Welcoming (in) the Kingdom......Page 216 Healing Power—Welcome, Transformation, and Wholeness......Page 220 Cross as Inclusive Solidarity—The Power of Inability......Page 225 Disability and the Imitation of Christ......Page 227 III. The Strange Household of God: Church as the Ongoing Presence of Christ......Page 229 Church as the Household of God—A New Covenant......Page 230 Church as the Body of Christ......Page 231 IV. Hospitality: Welcoming (in) the Spirit......Page 235 Hospitality—Inspirited Openness to the Other......Page 237 Hospitality and Disability......Page 241 Conclusion: Kindling Hope for the Church as a Communion of Strangers......Page 244 Notes......Page 246