Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation

ISBN-13: 9781108823128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 75 str.

Andrew McKendry

Opis

An interdisciplinary investigation, that explores how disability figured in seventeenth-century debates about justice and salvation.

Recenzje

'The significance of this book lies in its seemingly effortless but deeply rigorous interdisciplinarity and lightly worn erudition … The virtue of McKendry's account is its astute combination of the tools of theology with literary criticism and disability studies … It illuminates the contours of Baxter's enormous theological project in connection with his life (and how he narrates it) and demonstrates in a fresh and generative way how Baxter acted as a key mediator and innovator of theological models that continue to shape ableist assumptions of the individual subject within secular, liberal theories of the self.' Alison Searle, Church History and Religious Culture

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Contexts and Connections; 3. Enabling 'Every Man'; 4. Disputing Disability, Conditioning Salvation; 5. Diversity, Inclusion(ism), Discipline; 6. Melancholy, Means, Ends; 7. Conclusion.