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020			_a9780802862327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aBV4461 _b.R45 2008
100	1		_aReinders, Hans S.
245	1	0	_aReceiving the gift of friendship : _bprofound disability, theological anthropology, and ethics / _cHans S. Reinders.
260			_aGrand Rapids, Mich. : _bWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing, _c2008.
300			_ax, 404 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 382-396) and index.
505	0		_aThe subject -- A new vision -- Beyond rights and justice -- Intelligible experience -- The program -- Profound disability -- One of us -- Introducing Kelly -- The hierarchy of disability -- The problem and its problems -- No moral taxonomy -- A theological inquiry -- The politics of friendship -- Terminology -- ""Being human"" and ""being disabled"" I -- A preliminary objection -- Social constructionism -- The social model of disability -- ""Disability identity"" -- The realist version of social constructionism -- Invention and discovery -- Freedom of the self as our final end -- Conclusion -- ""Being human"" and ""being disabled"" II -- Roman Catholic doctrine on being human -- The anthropological ambiguity of natural law -- A hierarchy of being -- Marginal cases -- Agere sequitur esse -- Potentiality and actualization -- The theological option -- The disabled person as mystery -- Profound disability and the quest for the good -- A different agenda -- The good of being human -- ""Disability culture"" -- The ethics of access -- Distinct motivations -- Participation in the good of being human -- Theology -- Theology and disability I -- Introduction -- A theology of liberation -- Self-representation -- Moving from outside in -- Breaking the barrier -- ""The others who care"" -- A theology of access -- ""Beyond access"" -- Theology and disability II -- Introduction -- Digging up presuppositions -- ""Suffering presence"" -- Writing about the disabled -- ""A theology of human being"" -- The contributory view of worth -- No instrumental value -- The goodness of being -- ""Freely creative activity"" -- Conclusion -- A trinitarian concept of divine and human being -- Introduction: intrinsic qualities -- The double portrait of man -- ""Relationality"" -- Trinitarian theology and ""relational being"" -- The contribution of John D. Zizioulas -- Ecstatic personhood as ecclesial reality -- Zizioulas's critics -- Extrinsic movement -- Conclusion -- Ethics -- The fullness of being: God's friendship -- Introduction: three responses -- Difference -- ""Activities that direct us to God"" -- ""Poised between chaos and cosmos"" -- From first to last : all is grace -- Disability as moral failure? -- Steadfast love without reciprocation -- Receiving the gift of friendship -- Introduction -- Receiving -- The story of a man born blind -- Seeing -- Three caveats -- Being with -- No hiding in strength -- Moments of wonder -- Learning to become friends -- Introduction -- My friend Ronald -- ""We are friends, aren't we?"" -- Aristotle's friends -- Christian friendship -- Eucharistic practice -- The face of friendship -- Friendship with the profoundly disabled.
650		0	_aChristian ethics.
650		0	_aFriendship _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aMental retardation _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aTheological anthropology.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007050291.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2007050291-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2007050291-d.html
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