The Paralytic's Offering: Worship and Disability

In this essay, the author argues that people with profound disabilities belong at the heart of our worshipping communities. Psalm 50 [49 LXX] offers us a different angle from which to consider the contribution of people who seem unable to participate in communal worship, and whose experience of God...

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Main Author: Volpe, Medi Ann 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2018]
In: Journal of disability & religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 146-156
Further subjects:B Down Syndrome
B Intellectual disability
B L'Arche
B Suffering
B inclusive congregations
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