| Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Notes | p. 21 |
| Theology and Disability: Perils and Promises | p. 23 |
| A Disabling Theology or a Theology of Disability? | p. 25 |
| Defining Disability beyond the Medical Model | p. 25 |
| Understanding Disability Christianly: Is Disability a Tragedy to Be Undone? | p. 27 |
| Beyond Theodicy? | p. 31 |
| Toward a Hermeneutic of Disability | p. 34 |
| Dismantling Alienating Notions of Disability: Developing a Typology | p. 35 |
| Avoiding the Theological Denigration of Disability | p. 36 |
| Avoiding the Theological Trivialization of Disability | p. 38 |
| Conclusion: Toward a Wider Horizon for Theological Thinking about Disability | p. 42 |
| Notes | p. 43 |
| Communal Boundaries: Dwelling Together and the Cult of Normalcy | p. 46 |
| The Human Need for Welcome | p. 48 |
| Fundamental Trust-A Desire for "Home" | p. 49 |
| Home as Dwelling Together | p. 51 |
| Social Boundaries: Ability and Disability | p. 52 |
| Community and Identity-Frameworks of the Good | p. 53 |
| Recognition, Value, and the Good: Into the Sway of the Cult of Normalcy | p. 56 |
| Economies of Exchange | p. 56 |
| Body Capital-Measuring Exchange Value | p. 58 |
| The Cult of Normalcy | p. 59 |
| Outside the Good | p. 63 |
| Stigma-The Spoiled Body | p. 63 |
| Taboo-Prohibiting the Abnormal | p. 65 |
| Conclusion: Against "Normalization"? | p. 68 |
| Notes | p. 70 |
| Able Bodies? The Illusion of Control and Denial of Vulnerability | p. 73 |
| Theoretical Roots of the Modern Notion of Personhood | p. 77 |
| Problems with Equality, Freedom, Independence, and Reason | p. 80 |
| Ironic Equality-Like "Us" | p. 81 |
| Ironic Self-sufficiency and Freedom-Dis-abling Ability? | p. 82 |
| Ironically Rational-Routing the Irrational (Reason-unable?) | p. 84 |
| Managing the Body: The Productive Imperative | p. 88 |
| Wealth Accumulation | p. 88 |
| Efficiency-A Competitive Edge on Time | p. 90 |
| Novelty-The Tyranny of the New | p. 92 |
| The Person as Consumer-Empowered to Purchase | p. 93 |
| Beautiful, Youthful, and Able Bodies | p. 96 |
| Conclusion: Spiritual Self-Interest? | p. 97 |
| Notes | p. 98 |
| Recovering Disability: The Strange Power of "Weakness" | p. 102 |
| Vulnerability: Reassessing Wholeness and Disability | p. 104 |
| Dependence-Rethinking "Normal" | p. 105 |
| The Difficult Strength of Vulnerability-Neediness and the Reality of Suffering | p. 107 |
| Encountering Disability, Suffering the Other | p. 111 |
| Creative Openings-An Autobiographical Excursus on Love | p. 112 |
| Against Pity and Charity? | p. 114 |
| Getting Closer-Loving Chris | p. 116 |
| Relational Wholeness: Love's Interdependence | p. 117 |
| The Strange Power of Weakness-Enabling Love | p. 117 |
| Love-To Welcome the Presence of the Other | p. 118 |
| The Moral Fabric of Love: Availability | p. 123 |
| Respect-Giving Way for the Other | p. 124 |
| Fidelity-Faithfulness to the Other | p. 125 |
| Compassion-Sympathy with the Other, for Its Well-being | p. 126 |
| Conclusion: Empowering Community | p. 129 |
| Notes | p. 132 |
| Love Divine: Vulnerability, Creation, and God | p. 136 |
| Love and Conversion to God | p. 138 |
| Gratitude-Existence as Gift | p. 139 |
| Hope-Relation beyond Tragedy | p. 141 |
| The Sense of God-An Extraordinary Possibility in Vulnerable Ordinariness | p. 143 |
| Creation's God: A Theological Matrix | p. 146 |
| God's Transcendence and the Redemptive Encounter | p. 147 |
| Naming God's Redemptive Presence | p. 148 |
| God's Creative Power: Toward a Theology of Creation | p. 151 |
| In the Beginning, God | p. 152 |
| Creation Called into Being | p. 153 |
| Creation from Nothing | p. 154 |
| Continuing Creation and Providence | p. 156 |
| Creation a Free Act of God | p. 157 |
| Creation as Gift, Loved into Being | p. 158 |
| Relation and Vulnerability in God and Creation | p. 159 |
| Creation's Difference, God's Giving | p. 160 |
| Creation and the Tragic | p. 161 |
| Divine Vulnerability and Tragedy | p. 164 |
| Conclusion: Theology of Creation in a Key of Gratitude and Hope | p. 168 |
| Notes | p. 170 |
| Worthy of Love? Humanity, Disability, and Redemption in Christ | p. 175 |
| Reconsidering the Imago Dei | p. 177 |
| Imago Dei as Imitatio Dei | p. 178 |
| Imago Dei as Creativity-Human Being as a Cocreative Agent of God | p. 180 |
| Imago Dei as Relationality-Human Being as Embodied along with Others | p. 180 |
| Imago Dei as Availability-Human Being as Freedom for Love | p. 182 |
| The Imago Dei and Disability | p. 186 |
| Sin's Tragedy and the Possibility of Redemption | p. 188 |
| Sin-Creative Freedom for Love Gone Awry | p. 188 |
| Sin, Idolatry, and the Possibility of Redemption | p. 194 |
| Reconsidering Redemption in Jesus Christ | p. 197 |
| Jesus as the Icon of a Vulnerable God-Redemptive Revelation | p. 198 |
| Jesus-The Fully Human Person | p. 201 |
| Jesus as God's Solidarity with Humanity-Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection | p. 202 |
| Conclusion: Reversing Disability's Disability | p. 209 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| Being Together: Love, Church, and Hospitality | p. 214 |
| To Love as Christ Loves: Loving Chris as Christ Loves and Loving Christ as Chris Loves | p. 216 |
| The Strange Kingdom of God: Restoring the Imago Dei in Right Relationships | p. 219 |
| The Creative Power of Inclusion-Welcoming (in) the Kingdom | p. 220 |
| Healing Power-Welcome, Transformation, and Wholeness | p. 223 |
| Cross as Inclusive Solidarity-The Power of Inability | p. 228 |
| Disability and the Imitation of Christ | p. 231 |
| The Strange Household of God: Church as the Ongoing Presence of Christ | p. 233 |
| Church as the Household of God-A New Covenant | p. 233 |
| Church as the Body of Christ | p. 235 |
| Church as Anticipation-The Not Yet Kingdom of God | p. 238 |
| Hospitality: Welcoming (in) the Spirit | p. 239 |
| Hospitality-Inspirited Openness to the Other | p. 240 |
| Hospitality and Disability | p. 245 |
| Conclusion: Kindling Hope for the Church as a Communion of Strangers | p. 247 |
| Notes | p. 250 |
| Index | p. 253 |
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