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Revelations of Divine Care

Disability, Spirituality, and Mutual Flourishing

by Melody V. Escobar

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481320559

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

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

by Phil Letizia

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481321167

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

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...

Disability, Providence, and Ethics

Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives

by Hans S. Reinders

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481300667

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-01

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...

Radical Dependence

Anthropology, Ethics, and Disability

by Mary Jo Iozzio

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481319539

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-07-30

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...

Madness

American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness

by Heather Campain Hartung

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481300582

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-15

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...

Perfect in Weakness

Disability and Human Flourishing in the New Creation

by Maja I. Whitaker

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481319157

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-01

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...

Becoming the Baptized Body

Disability and the Practice of Christian Community

by Sarah Jean Barton

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481316873

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-08-01

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

Edited by Darla Y. Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781602587519

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

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...

Prophetic Disability

Divine Sovereignty and Human Bodies in the Hebrew Bible

by Sarah J. Melcher

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481310246

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

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'...

From Inclusion to Justice

Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership

by Erin Raffety

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9781481316941

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-09-01

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...

Flannery O'Connor

Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity

by Timothy J. Basselin

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602583986

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-11-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-11-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

158 Pages

Flannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen...

Theology and Down Syndrome

Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity

by Amos Yong

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481314886

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

462 Pages

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...

The Cerulean Soul

A Relational Theology of Depression

by Peter J. Bellini

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481310932

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

309 Pages

Depression is difficult to define. It is commonly described as a chemical imbalance, a subjective experience of despondency, or even a semiotic construct. The various theories of depression--biochemical,...

Becoming Friends of Time

Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship

by John Swinton

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481309356

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-01-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-12-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

255 Pages

Time is central to all that humans do. Time structures days, provides goals, shapes dreams--and limits lives. Time appears to be tangible, real, and progressive, but, in the end, time proves illusory. Though...

Crippled Grace

Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life

by Shane Clifton

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481307475

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-01-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2019-01-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

285 Pages

Crippled Grace combines disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved. The virtue tradition construes happiness as whole-of-life...

Accessible Atonement

Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ

by David McLachlan

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481313674

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-04-01

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

by Keith Dow

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481313216

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-03-01

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...

Disability and Spirituality

Recovering Wholeness

by William C. Gaventa

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481309400

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-03-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2018-02-28

Imprint: Baylor University Press

360 Pages

Disability and spirituality have traditionally been understood as two distinct spheres: disability is physical and thus belongs to health care professionals, while spirituality is religious and belongs...

Wondrously Wounded

Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ

by Brian R. Brock

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481310130

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-08-01

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...

The Bible and Disability

A Commentary

Edited by Sarah J. Melcher, Mikeal C. Parsons and Amos Yong

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481308533

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

511 Pages

The Bible and Disability: A Commentary (BDC) is the first comprehensive commentary on the Bible from the perspective of disability. The BDC examines how the Bible constructs or reflects human wholeness,...

Pastoral Care and Intellectual Disability

A Person-Centered Approach

by Anna Katherine Shurley

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481301695

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2017-08-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

157 Pages

Every Christian is called to and gifted for ministry. The church can--and must--engage all of its members if it is to flourish fully. Far too often, persons with intellectual disabilities are excluded....

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