From Ephphatha to Deaf Pastors
Deaf Pastoral Ministry
by M. Broesterhuizen
This book proposes a liberatory pastoral model that starts from deaf people’s self-experience, Deaf Cultures, and Sign Language as deaf people’s most natural language: deafness as a way of life. In a deaf way of life, deafness is not an impairment or disability, but a world in its own worth. In this Deaf World deaf people are not passive receivers of pastoral ministry, but its primary agents. Topics treated in this book are: the history of deafness in Western culture, deaf people’s self-experience, a non-dichotomizing view on “impairment”, a theological view on language, the deaf community as locus theologicus, and Bible translation into Sign Language.
In the past, pastoral care with the deaf generally took place from the care perspective of hearing pastors: deafness as a disability that deserved charity and a missionary effort towards integration of deaf people into hearing society. This book proposes a liberatory pastoral model that starts from deaf people’s self-experience, Deaf Cultures, and Sign Language as deaf people’s most natural language: deafness as a way of life. In a deaf way of life, deafness is not an impairment or disability, but a world in its own worth. In this Deaf World deaf people are not passive receivers of pastoral ministry, but its primary agents. Topics treated in this book are: the history of deafness in Western culture, deaf people’s self-experience, a non-dichotomizing view on “impairment”, a theological view on language, the deaf community as locus theologicus, and Bible translation into Sign Language.
- By (author) M Broesterhuizen
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How Do Stories Save Us?
An Essay on the Question with the Theological Hermeneutics of David Tracy in View
Volume 35
Standing Responsibly between Silence and Speech
Religion and Revelation in the Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rene Girard
Volume 42
Answerable for our Beliefs
Reflections on Theology and Contemporary Culture Offered to Terrence Merrigan
Volume 48
Towards Another Future
On the Christian Faith and Its Shape between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Volume 34
Suffering and Salvation
The Salvific Meaning of Suffering in the Later Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx
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