John Swinton
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Disability In The Christian Tradition
$51.99Add to cartFor two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. However, never before has one volume collected the most significant Christian thinkers’ writings on disability. Brian Brock and John Swinton have answered this need in Disability in the Christian Tradition. This book brings together for the first time the views of renowned Christian leaders throughout Christian history – including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, van den Bergh, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Vanier, and Hauerwas. Fourteen experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering clear commentary and highlighting important themes.
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Living Well And Dying Faithfully
$33.99Add to cartLiving Well and Dying Faithfully seeks to explore the significance of Christian practices for the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the way one lives, the book explores a variety of different forms of Christian practice which together offer vital modes of end of life care which takes seriously current medical practices while at the same time challenging them in innovative and healing ways.
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Resurrecting The Person
$25.99Add to cartIn Resurrecting The Person, John Swinton argues that while mental illnesses are often biological and genetic in orgin, the real handicap experienced by individuals is imposed by the types of reactions, values, and attitudes which are typical of contemporary western society. In other words, how a mental illness is experienced has much to do with how it is socially constructed.