By Amos Yong
Whereas the fight for incapacity rights has remodeled secular ethics and public coverage, conventional Christian instructing has been gradual to account for incapacity in its theological mind's eye. Amos Yong crafts either a theology of incapacity and a theology trained by means of incapacity. the result's a Christian theology that not just connects with our current social, clinical, and clinical knowing of incapacity but in addition one who empowers a collection of most sensible practices applicable to our overdue smooth context.
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