Disability, Society and Theology

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Disability, Society and Theology: Voices from Africa is the result of a workshop which brought together African theologians, persons with disabilities and disability expertise in the Region to prepare resource materials to enrich the disability study process in the context of the Africa region. The book is in six parts and includes contributions from scholars across the continent. The parts are: Disability Theology: Issue to Debate; The Able Disabled and the Disabled Church: The Church�s Response to Disability; Disability and Society; Disability Theology: Some Interfaces; Disability and Caregiving; and Disability in the African Experience.

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• Publié par: Zapf Chancery Publishers Africa Ltd.
• Date de parution: 29 décembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789966040060
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Disability,Society and

Theology

Voices from Africa

Edited by

Samuel Kabue, Programme Executive, Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN), Nairobi, Kenya

Esther Mombo, Associate Professor and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs), St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya

Joseph Galgalo , Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor,  St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya

C. B. Peter, Senior Lecturer, St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya

Zapf Chancery Limuru, Kenya

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Foreword

Dr. Dietrich Werner

n the key study document “A Church of all and for all” which I was published by WCC in September 2003, it was stated: “It is estimated that some 600 million people are persons with disabilities. Yet people, especially persons with disabilities, still find themselves isolated. Now there are walls of shame; walls of prejudice; walls of hatred; walls of competition; walls of fear; walls of ignorance; walls of theological prejudice and cultural misunderstanding. The Church is called to be an inclusive community, to tear down the walls.” The Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN) which is a project of the WCC within the Unity, Mission, Evangelism and Spirituality Programme, established after Harare Assembly in 1998, has done a magnificent work to create more awareness on disability issues in all major parts of the world. Under the committed and competent leadership of Mr. Samuel Kabue, EDAN Coordinator from Nairobi, this collection of essays and key articles on Disability, Theology and Society from African perspectives is a long awaited and needed resource book to deepen and further insights of the foundational paper “A Church of all and for all”. It provides a comprehensive and broad based new Handbook to enrich and inform courses on disability issues in theological education all across Africa and beyond.

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The papers and articles published here which come from the earlier workshop in St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya in June 2008 complement earlier workshops and resources published on 1 Doing Theology from a Disability Perspective in Asia. Teaching theology from Disability Perspectives has become a major concern and is firmly established now also in the international discourse of theological education which is facilitated by the 2 Programme on Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE) of WCC. The disability discourse has a profound relevance both for proper contextualization of the theological education and for the 3 relation of theological education to the unity of the church which for decades have been key concerns for the ETE Programme of the WCC. On behalf of the ETE Programme we congratulate the editors and all contributors for making available this impressive resource book hoping that curriculum plans for courses on Disability Theology _______________________________ 1 Wati Longchar/Cowans Gordon (ed), Disabled God Amidst Broken People : Doing Theology from Disability Perspective. Manila, ATESEA 2006. 2 Dietrich Werner, David Esterline, Namsoon Kang, Joshva Raja (eds): Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity. Theological Perspectives, Ecumenical Trends, Regional Surveys. Regnum Books International 2010, see particularly: Samuel Kabue: Disability Discourse, Theological Education and the Journey of EDAN, p. 230ff 3 See the reference document and global study report on theological education: Challenges and Opportunities inn Theological Education in the 21st Century. Pointers for a new international debate on Theological Education, ETE/WCC November 2010; see also: http:// www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc-programmes/ education-and-ecumenical-formation/ecumenical-theological-education- ete/edinburgh-2010-international-study-group-on-theological- education.html; short version on: http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/ f i l e s / w c c - m a i n / d o c u m e n t s / p 5 / e t e / E2010_summary_World_Study_Report11_2009.pdf

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like the one from St. Paul’s University by Esther Mombo and Joseph Galgalo documented at the end will find wider circulation and will make real impact in the theological teaching in all African universities and colleges dealing with ministerial formation and broad based theological education. It has been a privilege for ETE to accompany and to support this process. Christ came to tear down the walls (Eph 2:14). Still there are many walls for people with disabilities that shut people in or shut people out; walls that prevent people from meeting and talking to others. The WCC study had reminded us, that all of these walls are so human, yet they fundamentally contradict Christ’s ministry of reconciliation. It is a sign of hope therefore that the vision is renewed again, that the walls which are set up in society, in churches, in culture or the human mindset to keep with people with disability outside will be overcome and torn down. That is the vision which is embodied and expressed again in the articles of this book. That is the vision which also should accompany the wider distribution and reception of this unique African resource book on disability theology.

Dr. Dietrich Werner Global Programme Coordinator Programme on Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE) World Council of Churches, Geneva

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Introduction

his volume is part of a series of disability study materials nu T mber of theological institutions through the initiative of the development process in response to a need identified after the introduction of a disability studies in the curriculum of a Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN). The first in the series were two volumes produced in 2007 through a joint project of Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE), EDAN and Association of Theological Education Institutions in South East Asia (ATESEA). Volume one is entitled: Persons with Disabilities in Society: Problems and Challenges” and the Second volume is “Disabled God amidst Broken People”. “Disability, Society and Theology: Voices from Africa” is the result of a workshop which brought together African theologians, persons with disabilities and disability expertise in the Region to prepare resource materials to enrich the disability study process in the context of the Africa region. The workshop was organized in Mombasa Kenya in June 2008 under the joint leadership of EDAN and Saint Paul’s University Faculty of Theology. The writers were drawn mainly from Theologians, persons with disabilities and disability experts from the African Region. Each of the writers was given a topic to research on and prepares a paper in accordance with his or her expertise and experience. At the end of the workshop, twenty-four papers was presented, critically analyzed and the writers given time to go back and improve on them. An Editorial committee

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was formed to put the papers together and the result of all this work was the publication of this volume.

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Samuel Kabue, Executive Secretary, EDAN