Becoming the Baptized Body by Sarah Jean Barton - 9781481316880

Baylor University Press

Becoming the Baptized BodyDisability and the Practice of Christian Community\nAuthor(s): Sarah Jean Barton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Baylor University Press, United States\nImprint: Baylor University Press\nISBN-13: 9781481316880, 978-1481316880\nSynopsis\nBaptism offers the distinctive practice of Christian initiation, rooted in Jesus' own baptism, ministry, death, and resurrection. Too often, however, people with intellectual disabilities are excluded from this core Christian practice and so barred from full inclusion in the life of discipleship. How can the work of the Triune God in baptism renew Christian imagination toward an embrace of baptismal identities and vocations among disabled Christians?In Becoming the Baptized Body Sarah Jean Barton explores how baptismal theologies and practices shape Christian imagination, identity, and community. Privileging perspectives informed by disability experience through theological qualitative research, Becoming the Baptized Body de.