Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology, by John Swinton

摘要

Hauerwas is a well-known, somewhat controversial Protestant theologian who has written, among other things, about what people with mental retardation mean to society and, specifically, to the Christian church. This book is a compilation of reprints of 10 of his earlier publications (from 1975, 1977, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1999) on this topic, and after every chapter or two, there is a comment or response by either a parent of a person with intellectual impairments, a service worker, or someone who is both, and in one instance by a person with a disability (but we are not told what kind). At the end of the book, Hauerwas writes a very brief reflection on the responses. This is the same format that the publisher has used with two other texts, its 2001 The Theological Voice of Wolf Wolfensberger and its 2003 The Pastoral Voice of Robert Perske, which were also published at the same time as whole issues of The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health.