The Paradox of Disability

The village of Trosly-Breuil in northern France is home to the first of well over one hundred L'Arche communities worldwide, where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together. In 2007 an impressive assortment of social scientists and theologians gathered there to offer responses to a question posed by L'Arche's visionary founding leader, Jean Vanier: "What have people with disabilities taught me?" Their answers are here presented in a diverse collection of essays.

Hans S. Reinders is the Bernard Lievegoed Professor of Ethics and Mental Disability at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is also the author of Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics.

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction
Human Vulnerability: A Conversation at L'Arche	p. 3
The Call
What Have People with Learning Disabilities Taught Me?	p. 19
Responses From The Sciences
The Psychology of Love and Recognition
Drawing Closer: Preserving Love in the Face of "Hypercognitive" Values	p. 27
Dementia: A Spiritual Journey for the Patient and the Caregivers	p. 37
Effects of Social Exclusion and Interpersonal Rejection: An Overview with Implications for Human Disability	p. 51
Moral Transformation
Moral Transformation in L'Arche Communities for People with Developmental Disabilities	p. 60
Disability Attitudes, Cultural Conditions, and the Moral Imagination	p. 75
Anthropology
The Sign of Contradiction	p. 94
Responses From Theology
Identity and Community
Learning from People with Disabilities: How to Ask the Right Questions	p. 103
The Peace and Justice of L'Arche
Seeing Peace: L'Arche as a Peace Movement	p. 113
Supererogation and the Riskiness of Human Vulnerability	p. 127
Ways of Knowing God
Known by God	p. 140
Watch the Lilies of the Field: Theological Reflections on Profound Disability and Time	p. 154
The Paradox of Disability
On the Importance of Suffering: The Paradoxes of Disability	p. 169
Index	p. 180
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