Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Williams, Scott M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about disability. It surveys disability across a range of medieval Christian writers from Augustine up to Francisco Suarez.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429514937
• Artikelnr.: 58651292

Autorenporträt

Scott M. Williams is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He publishes in the areas of medieval theology and philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of disability. He has published several articles in philosophical theology on the Trinity, and recently published a response article, in Faith and Philosophy, called "In Defense of a Latin Social Trinity: A Response to William Hasker." He is currently writing a book, Henry of Ghent on the Trinity, and is co-editing a forthcoming special issue of the journal TheoLogica on conciliar trinitarianism

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction



Scott M. Williams



Part I. Theoretical Frameworks

1. Plurality in Medieval Concepts of Disability



Kevin Timpe



Part II. Disability in this Life

2. Medieval Aristotelians on Congenital Disabilities and their Early Modern Critics



Gloria Frost



3. Personhood, Ethics, and Disability: A Comparison of Byzantine, Boethian, and Modern Concepts of Personhood



Scott M. Williams



4. The Imago Dei / Trinitatis and Disabled Persons: The Limitations of Intellectualism in Late Medieval Theology



John T. Slotemaker



5. Remembering 'Mindless' Persons: Intellectual Disability, Spanish Colonialism, and the Disappearance of a Medieval Account of Persons who Lack the Use of Reason



Miguel J. Romero



6. Deafness and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages



Jenni Kuuliala and Reima Välimäki



7. Taking the 'Dis' out of Disability: Martyrs, Mothers, and Mystics in the Middle Ages

Christina Van Dyke

Part III. Disability in the Afterlife

8. Separated Souls: Disability in the Intermediate State



Mark K. Spencer



9. Disability and Resurrection



Richard Cross



10. Relative Disability and Transhuman Happiness: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision



Thomas M. Ward