Theology and Down Syndrome

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.

• Table of ContentsPart IAnticipating Down Syndrome and Disability1 IntroductionNarrating and Imagining Down Syndrome and Disability 2 The Blind, the Deaf, and the LameBiblical and Historical Trajectories Part IIDown Syndrome and Disability in the Modern World3 Medicalizing Down SyndromeDisability in the World of Modern science 4 Deconstructing and Reconstructing DisabilityLate Modern Discourses 5 Disability in Feminist, Cultural, and World Religious Perspective Part IIIRenewing Theology and Late ModernityEnabling a Disabled World6 Renewing the Doctrines of Creation, Providence & the Imago DeiRehabilitating Downs and Disability7 Renewing EcclesiologyDown Syndrome, Disability & the Community of Those being Redeemed 8 Renewing SoteriologyOn saving Down Syndrome and Disability9 Resurrecting Down Syndrome and DisabilityHeaven and the Healing of the World

Amos Yong says he hopes this is an edifying work on theology and Down syndrome. It is certainly that--but much more. Yong has done nothing less than provide the most comprehensive analysis we have of the philosophical issues surrounding Down syndrome. But more importantly, drawing on an account of the Holy Spirit, he helps us better appreciate how focusing on disability makes us re-think fundamental theological categories. I highly commend this book not only to those concerned with disability but to anyone who wants to think better about what it means to be a Christian in today's world. --Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School