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LaTonya McIver PennyAnnotated BibliographyCreating a Womanist Theology of Disability: Radical Inclusion from the MarginsAlbl, Martin. “For Whenever I am Weak, I Am Strong: Disability in Paul’s Epistles.” This Abled Body. Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies. (2007):145-158.Albl examines Paul’s view of disability as he proclaimed the gospel. Albl reflects upon two modern definitions of disability to explore three major components of disability in Paul’s message. The implications of Paul’s views creates a unique perspective of disability.Augustine. “The City of God.” In Readings in Christian Theology, edited by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King, 147-153. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1985.Augustine developed a theology of history that examines a struggle of two cities. These two cities are based on his view of human nature and the role of human will in nature. In this work, he argues that man plays a role in the effects of sin because of their will to give into the flesh and desire. He argues that even n in the body may suffer but the soul does not. Betcher, Sharon. Spirit and the Politics of Disablement. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007.Betcher offers a post colonial reading of disability that is mystical and political. Her work is not intended to be identity politics or liberation theologies, she seeks to stare back at the ideology of what it means to be normal with hopes of embracing the opposite of normal. She uses Spirit to dismantle idealism in hipes of embracing the beauty that is in disability.Block, Jennie Weiss. Copious Hosting: A Theology of Access for People with Disabilities. New York: Continuum, 2002.In this book, Weiss explains the philosophical concepts of the disability movement to the theological community. She looks at key theological topics such as Christian anthropology, embodiment, spirituality, an social justice to examin the Christian tradition from a disability perspective. Weiss concludes with what she suggests, a theology of access for persons with disabilities should be in the Christian environment.Borum, Valerie. “African American Mothers with Deaf Children: A Womanist Conceptual Framework Families in Society.” The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 88, no. 4 (2007): 595-604.This article gives a qualitative, exploratory design consisting of in-depth thematic interviews with 12 non deaf African American female caretakers of deaf children. Written through a Womanist lens, Borum organizes emerging themes and approaches in raising deaf children of African descent.Bruce, Patricia. “Constructions of Disability (Ancient and Modern): The Impact of Religious Beliefs on the Experience of Disability.” Neotestamentica 44.2 (2010)253-281.This paper provides a historical background pertaining to the lives of people with disabilities in ancient Greek and Jewish societies. Bruce gives evidence to the extent I which religious beliefs impacted the experience of the daily life of those with disabilities. She examines the historical background to consider portions in the New Testament account of the healing miracles and how that is relevant in the lives of persons with disabilities today.Bruce, Patricia. “The Bible and Disability: Historical Perceptions.” rampup.co.za (September 2011).This article addresses concerns in searching for a new theological understanding of disability and suggests that one mys look to the Bible from a fresh perspective to bring insight and understanding to the current disability movement. The author suggests our current construction of disability does not reflect ancient construction and definition of disability and current thought must take into consideration historical context in current reflection. Bruce also challenges connection of sin and disability.Carter, Erik W. “A Place of belonging: Research at the intersection of faith and disability” Review and Expositor and International Baptist Journal 113, no. 2 (May 2016):167-180. Carter answers the question, “What does it really mean for people with disabilities and their families to truly belong within their faith community?”. He addresses ten dimensions of belonging as it relates to inclusion of people with intellectual disability, autism and other developmental disabilities. This serves as a framework for churches and ministers to begin welcoming and including persons with disabilities into their faith communities.Coleman, Monica A. Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. Coleman explains the African American expression “making a way out of no way” in current cultural contexts. She examines many topics as she describes the relationship among God, African ancestors, and humanity from the African American female perspective. She engages many aspects of the connections of the African American woman to politics and religion.Creamer, Deborah Beth. AAR Academy Series: Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.Creamer suggests to write about disability one must reconsider the understanding of human embodiment. This work creates theological reflection on disability with aim to challenge theological reflection on disability and challenge theological injustices. This is a reflection on disability and current theology that sets limits for disability but pushes the reader to a more fluid understanding of disability.Crowder, Stephanie Buckhanon. When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood From a Womanist Perspective. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminister John Knox Press, 2016.Crowder writes from her own social location and experiences as an African American New Testament scholar regarding motherhood and Biblical implications. She examines the diverse images of motherhood from various contexts but roots in African and African American culture. Crowder defines womanism as a field of study that seeks to interpret simultaneously experience, theology and motherhood.Eisland, Nancy L. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.Eisland’s work is centered on the concept of examining all practices, structures and current images about both persons with disabilities and able-bodiedness. This work moves persons with disabilities and the able bodied to reimagining to social-symbolic order to include a liberatory view for all. Fontaine, Carol R. “Disabilities and Illness in the Bible: a Feminist Perspective”. In The Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, edited by Athalya Brenner, 286-300. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. In this work the author writes from the perspective of someone who has a chronic illness. Fontaine writes regarding the invisibility of disabled women in most feminist thoughts and writings. She confronts the notion of women being viewed as impure without disability or sickness presence and the ramifications of disability and illness on women who are already viewed less than.Garland Thomson, Rosemarie. "Feminist Disability Studies." Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, no. 2 (Winter 2005): 1558-87. Garland Thomson argues many disability studies scholars warn that the social model of disability ignores or minimizes the real physical experience of disability. However her approach is that one must maintain a feminist disability ethics of compassion grounded in flesh cannot, gloss over the real physical challenges of disability. For her, physical challenges of the body are primary concern.Gaventa, William C. “Preaching disability: The whole of Christ’s body in word and practice.” Review and Expositor and International Baptist Journal 113, no. 2 (May 2016): 225-242.Gaventa explores five areas to help clergy think about preaching disability: Practices of worship, perspectives of people with different kinds of disabilities, possible biblical passages and themes, current parables and stories and the paradoxical uses of disability as metaphor. He challenges preaches to forego euphemisms and some traditional theological perspectives on disability because of their damaging implications.Gleason, Maud. Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.Maud addresses the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during the second century. She assesses gender-construction and how men were judgmental of one another based on signs of masculinity. This defining of masculinity consisted of many elements regarding the use of the body. Gunzer, Aaron J. Disabled Christianity: Recognizing and Cultivating a Desperate Dependence Upon God. New York: iUniverse, 2007.Gunzer writes from his own perspective of living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and the challenges that daily activities to shed light on the fragility of humanity. He uses the daily tasks of eating, drinking, washing, walking and breathing to unite all persons regardless of ability and create a commonality of the daily struggles of the body.Hartsock, Chad. Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts: The Use of Physical Features in Characterization. Leiden: Brill, 2008.This book brings understanding of what ancient physiognomics meant throughout the Greco-Roman works. After reviewing Old Testament examples of blindness the author moves to the New Testament encounters of blindness. He examines blindness in Luke and Act sand the stereotypical characteristics associated with blindness.Haslam Molly. A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability: Human Being as Mutuality and Response. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.Haslam examines the question what it means to be human from the perspective of those with intellectual disabilities. This book shifts the focus from the importance of intellectual capacity to the value of relationships within humanity. She suggests to be human and in the image of God means to respond to the world around you in a variety of ways. Hicks, Derek S. Reclaiming Spirit in the Black Faith Tradition. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2012. Hicks exposes the complexities and messiness of the Christian faith tradition in the United States. He first gives an historical account of Africans and their transport to the United States and what that meant for black bodies. A thorough analysis of the wounded body and less than human status for black bodies moves into a reclamation of what it means to be in a black body, abled or dis-abled in the Christian faith tradition.Jennings, Willie James. “Embodying the Artistic Spirit and Prophetic Arts. Literature and Theology Vol. 30, issue 3 (2016) 256-264.Jennings suggests the idea of possibility of freedom to connect the common of all humanity if they follow three gestures: cultivating attention, embedding communal prayer and imagining the common. This possibility of freedom happens when the prophetic mode of life, in which he defines, with the artistic mode of life. The author suggests by joining the two modes of life people will be called to transformation.Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949.Niebuhr explores how persons are capable of evil yet remain both human beings and God’s good creation. He examines the distinction between the essential nature or man and the virtue of conformity to that nature. He further suggests nothing can change the essential nature and structure of the anatomy of the body that would negate the essential nature of the man.Paris, Peter. “The Social World of the Black Church.” The Drew Gateway 52/3 (Spring 1982):1-9.Paris argues that the black church thrives on a vision that pushes its social and political struggles against the injustice of racism. In this work he examines the history of the church and the dehumanizing conditions of the times. He discusses a biblical anthropology that affirms the equality of all persons under God regardless of race or any other natural quality. Parson, Mikeal C. Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011.Parson discusses the origins of physiognomics which is the study of the relationship between the physical and moral. The author offers three kinds of physiognomic analysis for the reader to explore as means to view the otherness of those who seem to be outside of normative. The author’s work on body and character in early Jewish and Christian literature is eye opening when reading biblical descriptions and reflecting on characters in the Bible and their depicted characteristics.Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.Ransby details the political and personal life of legendary Ella Baker. She details the over fifty years of activist work by Baker to bring those from the margins of society to a place of equality. This radical inclusion method for all people despite ability illuminates throughout the entire work. Reindeer, Hans S. Disability, Providence, and Ethics: Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2014.This book aims to help readers see that the birth of a mentally handicapped child as well as those who have suffered traumatic brain injury cannot be explained, but they can be storied. Author suggests it is the story of Jesus that tests any stories of our own lives. Author gives account of Christological character of the doctrine of providence and belief in providence is faith in Christ. Rensberger, David. Johnanine Faith and Liberating Community. Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1988.Rensberger explores ways of interpreting John by examining the social and historical setting of the text. The author connects a liberation theology view to the current church and suggests a political and social interpretation. He focuses on two main characters Nicodemus and the man born blind and uses their social connections and representations as conversation for larger social connections. His work with the Eucharist and baptism further suggests social reimagining of religious sacrament.Schleier, Friedrich. “The Human Subject” In Readings in Christian Theology, edited by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King, 147-153. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1985.Schleiermacher explains the conception of the human subject and gives and analysis of human consciousness then provides the interpretive principle for his work. He suggests there is a common element even amongst diversity of humans and that is this human consciousness of being dependent. He further argues that humanity has a God-consciousness in the self-consciousness which cannot be separated. Shelton, Jason E. and Michael O. Emerson. Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions. New York: New York University Press, 2012.The authors investigate many aspects of racial discrimination has shaped the religious convictions in African Americans and Whites. The look at the justification of enslavement and the making of bodies into tools and thus devaluing black bodies. They also examine the so called Curse of Ham that tied black bodies to further discrimination.Stratton, Beverly J. “Eve Through Several Lenses: Truth In 1Timothy 2.8-15”. In The Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, edited by Athalya Brenner, 286-300. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. Stratton assesses real life situations and parallels them to verses of 1 Timothy. She suggests a contemporary reader confronts the text with more questions pertaining to women’s authority than readers of ancient times. She further suggests recognizing interpretation as the “shaping of imaginations” may offer a way of redeeming 1 Timothy.Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.Thurman provides African Americans a message of renewal through self-love by using the narrative and life of Jesus. Thurman suggests a reading of the gospel with a focus on the disinherited Jesus who advocates for love of self and love of others as means to defeating fear and hatred in the world. Although written for the disenfranchised Negro, it connects with the disenfranchised individuals with disabilities in the African American race.Wimberly, Edward P. Relational Refugees: Alienation and Reincorporation in African American Churches and Communities. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1943.Wimberly shares stories of the human family who by virtue of race and circumstance are members of the African village while pointing to the universality of the human experience. His work directly and indirectly suggests that our woundedness can be the source of healing within and beyond the African American community. He suggests that the African American community is equipped to the wounded healers for one another and the community.Yong, Amos. Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity.Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.Yong calls readers to reimagine the doctrines of creation, providence, and the Imago Dei through the lens of disability with a focus on Down Syndrome. He highlights the complexity of theological and religious meaning of disability throughout history. Yong hopes the language of disability be deconstructed and transformed from brokenness to wholeness. The author moves from methodological and theological background to present day interpretation and implementation. ................
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