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Informationen zum Autor Scott M. Williams is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He publishes in the areas of medieval theology and philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of disability. He has published several articles in philosophical theology on the Trinity, and recently published a response article, in Faith and Philosophy, called "In Defense of a Latin Social Trinity: A Response to William Hasker." He is currently writing a book, Henry of Ghent on the Trinity , and is co-editing a forthcoming special issue of the journal TheoLogica on conciliar trinitarianism Klappentext This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about disability. It surveys disability across a range of medieval Christian writers from Augustine up to Francisco Suarez. Zusammenfassung This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about disability. It surveys disability across a range of medieval Christian writers from Augustine up to Francisco Suarez. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Scott M. Williams Part I. Theoretical Frameworks 1. Plurality in Medieval Concepts of Disability Kevin Timpe Part II. Disability in this Life 2. Medieval Aristotelians on Congenital Disabilities and their Early Modern Critics Gloria Frost 3. Personhood, Ethics, and Disability: A Comparison of Byzantine, Boethian, and Modern Concepts of Personhood Scott M. Williams 4. The Imago Dei / Trinitatis and Disabled Persons: The Limitations of Intellectualism in Late Medieval Theology John T. Slotemaker 5. Remembering ‘Mindless’ Persons: Intellectual Disability, Spanish Colonialism, and the Disappearance of a Medieval Account of Persons who Lack the Use of Reason Miguel J. Romero 6. Deafness and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages Jenni Kuuliala and Reima Välimäki 7. Taking the ‘Dis’ out of Disability: Martyrs, Mothers, and Mystics in the Middle Ages Christina Van Dyke Part III. Disability in the Afterlife 8. Separated Souls: Disability in the Intermediate State Mark K. Spencer 9. Disability and Resurrection Richard Cross 10. Relative Disability and Transhuman Happiness: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision Thomas M. Ward ...
