The Social Contexts of Disability Ministry: A Primer for Pastors, Seminarians, and Lay Leaders

This book provides pastors, seminarians, and interested laity with the background necessary to understand the need for disability ministry and the contexts out of which the church's ministry among people with disabilities must emerge. This is true not only for descriptions of ministries over the past sixty years, but also the challenges disability poses for biblical studies, church history, Christian theology, and ethics.

Insights are gained not only from mainstream secular and religious so...