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Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability

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Authors:
  1. Martina Vuk

    1. University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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  • Discusses classic, modern, and contemporary approaches of friendships
  • Examines the caveats surrounding the meaning of disability and friendship in perspective of Disability Studies and Disability Theology
  • Rethinks friendship anthropology implying the notion of vulnerability and interdependency

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Context of Friendship: From Aristotle to Facebook

    • Martina Vuk
    Pages 1-60

  3. Disability Studies and Disability Theology Perspectives on Disability and Friendship

    • Martina Vuk
    Pages 61-127

  4. Reimagining of an Anthropology of Friendship: The Implication of the Notion of Vulnerability and Solicitude

    • Martina Vuk
    Pages 129-175

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 177-184
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About this book

This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the respect for human dignity and the person´s vulnerability as the criterion in reconsidering such an anthropology. The reality of disability is not only the reality of being in the world, but also concerns the concept of the meaning of otherness and being created as an image of God. The constructive critique that the emergence of disability as a human condition posits to theo-anthropological and ethical concepts is the quest of the renewal of theo-anthropological and ethical knowledge on the meaning of disability, otherness and friendship. The theological and anthropological entities, such as disability and friendship, are interconnected in a sense that the meaning of the one needs to be explained in the light of the other, and vice versa. The renewal of certain anthropological categories in such regard is a search for a deeper understanding of humanity, not apart from, butin light of, the presence of disability.

The book examines the anthropological and theological systems regarding the theme of friendship and disability.


Reviews

“Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability is a welcome addition to the growing resources in theological disability studies. By integrating vulnerability and solicitude into the notion of friendship Martina Vuk demonstrates that the lived experience of people with disabilities brings signifi cant insights into our shared human interdependency and so confi rms the intrinsic dignity of us all.” (Pia Matthews, Senior Lecturer at St Mary‘s University Twickenham and Mater Ecclesiae College, London)

“This book enriches the discourse around the two major topics of Disability and Friendship, and thus paves the way for a contemporary theological anthropology that truly acknowledges that strange mixture of the fragile and the strong, of individual and social animal that we are. As a Benedictine, I am heartened by the emphasis on Solicitude, a key value of the Rule of St Benedict. This scholarly work will surely contribute to that enhanced fraternity our fractured world so needs.” (Hugh Gilbert, OSB, Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Martina Vuk

About the author

Martina Vuk is a theologian and a scientific collaborator at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethics and Human Rights and associate lecturer at Department of Nursing at Catholic University in Zagreb, Croatia. She specializes in disability, vulnerability,  ethics and personalistic and  integrative bioethics. Her research utilizes the concept of vulnerability and the concept of interdependency. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability

  • Authors: Martina Vuk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33816-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33815-1Published: 15 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33818-2Due: 15 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33816-8Published: 14 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 184

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Sociology of Religion

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