UID:
almafu_9960800154602883
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4438-9156-8
Content:
Theological anthropology is charged with providing an understanding of the human, but there are numerous challenges to this. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder, the main characteristic of which is difficulty in social interaction. In its severest form, a person with low-functioning autism may be both intellectually impaired and unable to relate to others as persons. Theological anthropology can exclude people who are cognitively impaired because it has historically upheld reason as the image of God. Recent theology of intellectual disability has bypassed this difficulty by emphasising relationality as the image of God. However, this approach has the unfortunate consequence of excluding people with severe low-functioning autism. This calls for a new approach to theological anthropology. Autism, Humanity and Personhood provides a Christ-centred, inclusive anthropology which does not exclude people with severe autism. The book takes a conservative evangelical approach to severe autism and the challenges it poses to theological anthropology. It considers significant aspects of salvation history - creation, incarnation, atonement and resurrection - in order to build a solid theological foundation for an inclusive theological anthropology. As long as we look within the individual, it is difficult to find a solid basis for the humanity of people who are severely intellectually and developmentally impaired. Instead of trying to ground humanity and personhood within the individual with autism, the book outlines an extrinsic basis for theological anthropology. That extrinsic basis is the gift of humanness and personhood from Jesus Christ, who alone is fully human and the true image of God. Jesus has overcome sin and death, which have wreaked havoc on the human person. Therefore, his incarnate life, death and resurrection are more than enough
Content:
basis to declare that people with the most severe intellectual and developmental impairment are truly human persons.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Pressing Question -- How Might We Go About Answering the Question? -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter One -- Introduction -- The "Discovery"4 of Autism -- The Core Features of Autism -- Autism over the Lifetime -- Perceptions of Autism -- Autism Terminology -- Two Lived Experiences of Autism -- Conclusion: Theological Questions -- Chapter Two -- Introduction -- In the Beginning Elohim -- God Said, "Let There Be Light" -- Creation ex Nihilo -- Let Us Make Humans in Our Image -- Autism and the Image of God -- Have Dominion over the Earth -- Adam Gave Names to All the Animals -- It Is Not Good to Be Alone -- No Autism in the Beginning -- The Origin of Autism -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three -- Introduction -- The Problem Which Inability Poses to Theology -- Some Inclusive Anthropologies -- Jesus Christ: True Human Being and True Image of God -- Irenaeus: Recapitulation -- The Implications of Irenaeus' Theology -- J.B. Torrance -- Implications of the Vicarious Humanity of Christ -- The Nature of Human Personhood -- Personhood and Severe Autism -- Jesus Christ the Humanizing Human and Personalizing Person -- Humanizing Human and Personalizing Person and Autism -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four -- Introduction -- The Meaning and Purpose of the Atonement -- Jesus Bears the Loneliness of the Cross for Us -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five -- Introduction -- Eiesland: The Disabled God -- Yong: Removing the Disability Would Remove the Person -- Critique of Eiesland and Yong -- The Resurrection -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six -- Introduction -- Three Views of Salvation for People with Cognitive Disability -- Infant Salvation -- John the Baptist: Exemplar of Infant Salvation -- The Nature of Saving Faith -- The Holy Spirit -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Revisiting the Core Ideas of the Book.
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Implications of an Extrinsic Anthropology -- Further Ideas to Explore -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4438-5074-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
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