The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
by Amos Yong
Eerdmans, November 2011
161 pp., $20.00
From an able-bodied reading of the Bible, it is easy to assume God wants to heal every person with a disability. In the New Testament, every person who encounters Jesus blind, deaf, or lame is restored to health. But theologian Amos Yong wants the church to read the Bible differently, seeing good news for people with disabilities as they are, and not as God might change them.
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