A Theology of Incarnation from Within Dis-Abled Minds

NOTE EDITORE

Too frequently, theology has addressed issues of mental health from a largely pastoral and detached observational perspective. This book asks whether the model of an embodied and experiential theology of disability, championed by theologians such as Nancy Eiesland, can more powerfully and insightfully apply to those who are described as suffering from severe and enduring mental health problems. A Theology of Incarnation from Within Dis-Abled Minds is an auto-ethnographic journey into a question that is both deeply personal and theo-therapeutic. Utilising the author’s own experiences, it explores whether there can be an applied theology, rooted in the living ‘tradition’ of feminist and queer theology, that begins to question classical definitions of the ‘sane’ and ‘insane’. Can certain contemporary theological models of chaos, in creation and cosmology, offer a valorised place for those whose psycho-chaos is usually deemed to be of little value in western capitalist economies, except as the recipients of ‘professional compassion’? This book offers a transgressive theology of healing and wellbeing based on radical feminist Christological understanding which speaks as much of anger, chaos, and resistance as it does of peace, healing or reconciliation. Therefore, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religion and Theology, as well as those working in Psychiatry, Mental Health and Disability Studies.

SOMMARIO

Introduction Chapter 1 Margery and Me Chapter 2 Madness and Theology: Some Processes of Separation Chapter 3 Madness and Incarnation Chapter 4 Incarnational Theology and Liberating Trauma Chapter 5 Madness, Personas and the Theological Encounter Chapter 6 How Grotesque Am 1? Monsters and Madness Chapter 7 Contemporary Psychiatric Process and Theological Agency Chapter 8 Creatio Ex Profundis: Applying Chaos Theology to Madness Praxis Conclusion Hearing Voices is a Queer Thing

AUTORE

Christopher Newell is currently a Mental Health and Learning Disability Chaplain working for Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust and a Self-Supporting Priest in Charge of the benefice of St. Goran.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781138737419
• Collana: Gender, Theology and Spirituality
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 264