Armand Leon van Ommen is Senior Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. Brian R. Brock is Professor in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen.
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Introduction: What Does It Mean to Be Human? by Armand Leon van Ommen Part One: Practical Theology in a Swintonian Key 1 Enacting a Theology of Disability: Framing Swinton, by Topher Endress, Hannah Waite, and Julie Marie Land 2 Exploring the World through a Theological Lens: "Swintonian" Practical Theology, by Henk De Roest 3 Worship and Discipleship as Meta-Themes in the Theology of John Swinton, by Doug Gay Part Two: Vulnerability Subverted 4 The Subversion of Strength and Weakness: Paul's Grammar of Salvation and Autism, by Grant Macaskill 5 On Disability and the Dread of Vulnerability, by Marcia Webb 6 Does L'Arche Need Another Saint?, by Hans S. Reinders and Cristina Gangemi 7 Being Remembered When We Forget: Finding God in Dementia and Suffering, by Michael Mawson Part Three: Quests for Faithful Embodiment 8 Bearing the Reality of Dementia, by Aileen Barclay 9 Navigating Mental Health: A Personal Narrative, by Elahe Hessamfar 10 "I Could Not for the Life of Me Remember His Name!": Dementia Care in Australia, by Stephen Judd 11 All God's Children Got a Place in the Choir: Discipleship, Disability, and Dementia, by William C. Gaventa Part Four: Living Gently in a Violent World 12 Belonging, by Benjamin Conner 13 The Being of Friendship: An Essay in Honor of the Tired John Swinton, by Andrew Root 14 The Practice of Health Care and the Gentleness of Jesus, by Stanley Hauerwas and Warren Kinghorn 15 Peace, by Medi Anne Volpe Afterword: On Following Jesus into the Shadows, by Brian R. Brock
Overall, I would encourage all Christians whose lives intertwine with people on the margins of ability and disability to read this book and let it speak to their hearts and their minds. I am looking forward to being able to use this book both as a practitioner and a professor, and in these roles, I am thankful to have read about all the ways I can learn to be a deeper and better friend and human being. --Bob Bowen "Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith" All people involved in Christian ministry should be engaging with this book, and as all Christians are called to minister, then everyone should read it. --Ben Boland "Journal of Contemporary Ministry"