Theology and Down Syndrome

While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos Yong crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context.

• Table of Contents
• Part I
• Anticipating Down Syndrome and Disability
• 1 Introduction
• Narrating and Imagining Down Syndrome and Disability
• 2 The Blind, the Deaf, and the Lame
• Biblical and Historical Trajectories
• Part II
• Down Syndrome and Disability in the Modern World
• 3 Medicalizing Down Syndrome
• Disability in the World of Modern science
• 4 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Disability
• Late Modern Discourses
• 5 Disability in Feminist, Cultural, and World Religious Perspective
• Part III
• Renewing Theology and Late Modernity
• Enabling a Disabled World
• 6 Renewing the Doctrines of Creation, Providence & the Imago Dei
• Rehabilitating Downs and Disability
• 7 Renewing Ecclesiology
• Down Syndrome, Disability & the Community of Those being Redeemed
• 8 Renewing Soteriology
• On saving Down Syndrome and Disability
• 9 Resurrecting Down Syndrome and Disability
• Heaven and the Healing of the World

Amos Yong (Ph.D. Boston University) is Professor of Theology and Mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.