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Radical Dependence
Anthropology, Ethics, and Disability
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481319539
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
334 Pages
Human beings are relationally dependent, regardless of race, gender, or functionality, and while persons with disability may seem to epitomize dependency, they are neither more nor less dependent than...
Revelations of Divine Care
Disability, Spirituality, and Mutual Flourishing
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481320559
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
239 Pages
At a Texas Hill Country ranch, Melody V. Escobar and her young son meet Bo, the retired racehorse that becomes his "go-to" sage in a remarkable equine program for children with disabilities. The weekly...
Held in the Love of God
Discipleship and Disability
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481321167
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
196 Pages
Throughout its history, evangelicalism has neglected to consider the spiritual lives of people with profound intellectual disabilities and how their experiences might contribute to a fuller understanding...
Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body
A Theological Engagement
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481318273
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
252 Pages
The field of biomedical technology has experienced rapid growth in recent years. New technologies promise to diagnose, treat, and prevent human diseases. Increasingly, however, the ability of these...
Autism and Worship
A Liturgical Theology
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481319898
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
263 Pages
In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church members or at worst infantilized. Viewed as "other," autistic people who feel excluded from the church...
Madness
American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481300582
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-08-20
Imprint: Baylor University Press
283 Pages
Madness is a sin. Those with emotional disabilities are shunned. Mental illness is not the church’s problem.All three claims are wrong.In Madness, Heather H. Vacek traces the history of Protestant...
Disability, Providence, and Ethics
Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481300667
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-08-20
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
Human disability raises the hardest questions of human existence and leads directly to the problem of causality--the underlying intuition that someone, divine or human, must have been at fault.Christian...
Perfect in Weakness
Disability and Human Flourishing in the New Creation
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481319157
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
224 Pages
One of the central and novel convictions of the early Christian movement compared to the existing Greco-Roman beliefs was the dogma of bodily resurrection. The Stoics esteemed temperance, disciplining...
Prophetic Disability
Divine Sovereignty and Human Bodies in the Hebrew Bible
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481310246
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
145 Pages
At first glance it may seem that the Hebrew prophets offer little resolution on contemporary concerns of inclusivity and defense for persons deemed "other." Bound by their time and culture, the prophets'...
Disciples and Friends
Investigations in Disability, Dementia, and Mental Health
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481317009
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
330 Pages
John Swinton has indelibly shaped the discipline of practical theology not only in the United Kingdom but globally, and has been especially influential in the areas of disability theology, dementia,...
From Inclusion to Justice
Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781481316941
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
238 Pages
American Christianity tends to view disabled persons as problems to be solved rather than people with experiences and gifts that enrich the church. Churches have generated policies, programs, and...
Becoming the Baptized Body
Disability and the Practice of Christian Community
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481316873
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-07-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
253 Pages
Baptism offers the distinctive practice of Christian initiation, rooted in Jesus' own baptism, ministry, death, and resurrection. Too often, however, people with intellectual disabilities are excluded...
Disability and World Religions
An Introduction
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602587519
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2021-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
276 Pages
Religion plays a critical role in determining how disability is understood and how persons with disabilities are treated. Examining the world’s religions through the lens of disability studies not...
Accessible Atonement
Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313674
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-03-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
208 Pages
The atonement--where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament--lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep hesitancy...
Formed Together
Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313216
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-02-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
224 Pages
Joy, pain, celebration, and grief are constant companions on the journey of caregiving. While remaining detached might seem the preferable option, it is not possible to disentangle the threads of our...
Wondrously Wounded
Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481310130
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2020-08-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
392 Pages
The church welcomes all--or it should.The church has long proven itself a safe refuge despite the sad reality that it can be, and has been, unwelcoming toward those perceived as different. This is especially...

Radical Dependence
Anthropology, Ethics, and Disability
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481319539
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
334 Pages
Revelations of Divine Care
Disability, Spirituality, and Mutual Flourishing
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481320559
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
239 Pages
Held in the Love of God
Discipleship and Disability
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481321167
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
196 Pages
Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body
A Theological Engagement
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481318273
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
252 Pages
Autism and Worship
A Liturgical Theology
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481319898
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
263 Pages
Madness
American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481300582
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-08-20
Imprint: Baylor University Press
283 Pages
Disability, Providence, and Ethics
Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481300667
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-08-20
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
Perfect in Weakness
Disability and Human Flourishing in the New Creation
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481319157
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
224 Pages
Prophetic Disability
Divine Sovereignty and Human Bodies in the Hebrew Bible
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481310246
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
145 Pages
Disciples and Friends
Investigations in Disability, Dementia, and Mental Health
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481317009
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
330 Pages
From Inclusion to Justice
Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781481316941
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
238 Pages
Becoming the Baptized Body
Disability and the Practice of Christian Community
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481316873
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-07-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
253 Pages
Disability and World Religions
An Introduction
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602587519
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2021-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
276 Pages
Accessible Atonement
Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313674
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-03-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
208 Pages
Formed Together
Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313216
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-02-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
224 Pages
Wondrously Wounded
Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ
Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481310130
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2020-08-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
392 Pages