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The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Inspiring and challenging study that rethinks the Bible’s teaching on disability. The Bible has plenty to say about human disability; most of it is negative. Yet Amos Yong—a theologian whose life experience includes growing up alongside a brother with Down syndrome—argues that it is the way we read biblical texts, not the Bible itself, that causes us unthinkingly to marginalize those with...

problem isn’t alleviated for a contemporary theology of disability. Many of these physical conditions are in fact disabling, even if not so classified under most contemporary disability rubrics. So, the presence of such physical ills and their accompanying impairments and disabilities remains intertwined with the curses for disobedience delineated in this text. This leads us to the heart of the problem for any traditional theology of disability: that disabling conditions and ailments seem linked
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