Yong, Amos.

The Bible, disability, and the church : a new vision of the people of God / Amos Yong. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011. - xiii, 161 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : disability and the people of God : whole or fragmented? -- Holiness, the covenant, and ancient Israel : exclusion, inclusion, and disability -- What hath Dr. Luke and his colleagues to say? : Jesus, the early church, and a (radical Pentecostal) theology of disability -- One body, many members : St. Paul's charismatic ecclesiology and the renewal of dis/ability -- When there shall be no more tears : eschatology, the reign of God, and the redemption of disability -- Epilogue: The new biblical theology of disability : so what? -- Appendix: Disability at Qumran.

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People with disabilities in the Bible.
Church work with people with disabilities.

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