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Title: Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology and Ethics By: Hans S. Reinders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Publication Date: 2007 | Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches) Weight: 1 pound 4 ounces ISBN: 0802862322 ISBN-13: 9780802862327 Stock No: WW862327 |
Are people with severe intellectual disabilities fully human? In the most remarkable way Hans Reinders reveals to us their capacity to relate and to receive and give the gift of friendship. . . . This book is necessary reading for all philosophers, theologians, and those in the human sciences. We are confronted here with how the exceptional, the different, the one who so often is put aside opens new doors for understanding the truth of who we all are and how we can all develop more humanly. -Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
Hans Reinders goes to the very heart of the mystery of what it means to be a human being. If we truly believe we can see God in every other person, then we shall have reverence for all human beings, irrespective of whether they are disabled or not. Reinders comprehensively challenges the perceived lack of personhood of people with profound intellectual disability through the prism of the Trinity. -Trevor R. Parmenter, University of Sydney
The blessing of intimacy is not one that is available to all people, particularly those whom we choose to name profoundly intellectually disabled. Why would we desire to claim such people as friends? What can they give that we might desire to receive? And yet, at the heart of the gospel is the deep promise that God desires to befriend human beings, not for what they are, for what they have done, or for what they will do, but simply because they are. In this rich and deeply insightful book Hans Reinders opens our eyes and hearts to enable us to see and live this oft-forgotten truth. . . . This is a powerful book that will make a difference in peoples lives. -John Swinton, University of Aberdeen
This wonderful book helps us to understand not only the humanity of persons with profound disabilities but also our own humanity as cherished children of God. Moreover, it helps us to understand how a friendship with a profoundly disabled person, whose very humanity is sometimes questioned, might remind us of our own humanity, for we too are dependent on Gods grace from first to last. -Allen Verhey, Duke Divinity School
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