Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability

Martina Vuk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 184 Seiten

2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-33815-1 (ISBN)

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This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the respect for human dignity and the person´s vulnerability as the criterion in reconsidering such an anthropology. The reality of disability is not only the reality of being in the world, but also concerns the concept of the meaning of otherness and being created as an image of God. The constructive critique that the emergence of disability as a human condition posits to theo-anthropological and ethical concepts is the quest of the renewal of theo-anthropological and ethical knowledge on the meaning of disability, otherness and friendship. The theological and anthropological entities, such as disability and friendship, are interconnected in a sense that the meaning of the one needs to be explained in the light of the other, and vice versa. The renewal of certain anthropological categories in such regard is a search for a deeper understanding of humanity, not apart from, butin light of, the presence of disability.
The book examines the anthropological and theological systems regarding the theme of friendship and disability.

Martina Vuk is a theologian and a scientific collaborator at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethics and Human Rights and associate lecturer at Department of Nursing at Catholic University in Zagreb, Croatia. She specializes in disability, vulnerability, ethics and personalistic and integrative bioethics. Her research utilizes the concept of vulnerability and the concept of interdependency.

Chapter 1: General Introduction.- Chapter 2: The theme of friendship examined: A brief outline of classic, modern and late modernity approaches.- Chapter 3: Caveats surrounding the meaning of disability and friendship : Disability Studies and Disability Theology Perspectives.- Chapter 4: Reconsidering the Friendship Anthropology: The implication of Vulnerability and Solicitude.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	XV, 184 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Disability • Friendship • Inclusion • Interdependency • vulnerability
ISBN-10	3-031-33815-4 / 3031338154
ISBN-13	978-3-031-33815-1 / 9783031338151
Zustand	Neuware