Receiving the gift of friendship : profound disability, theological anthropology, and ethics / Hans S. Reinders.

The subject
A new vision
Beyond rights and justice
Intelligible experience
The program
Profound disability
One of us
Introducing Kelly
The hierarchy of disability
The problem and its problems
No moral taxonomy
A theological inquiry
The politics of friendship
Terminology
"Being human" and "being disabled" I
A preliminary objection
Social constructionism
The social model of disability
"Disability identity"
The realist version of social constructionism
Invention and discovery
Freedom of the self as our final end
Conclusion
"Being human" and "being disabled" II
Roman Catholic doctrine on being human
The anthropological ambiguity of natural law
A hierarchy of being
Marginal cases
Agere sequitur esse
Potentiality and actualization
The theological option
The disabled person as mystery
Profound disability and the quest for the good
A different agenda
The good of being human
"Disability culture"
The ethics of access
Distinct motivations
Participation in the good of being human
Theology
Theology and disability I
Introduction
A theology of liberation
Self-representation
Moving from outside in
Breaking the barrier
"The others who care"
A theology of access
"Beyond access"
Theology and disability II
Introduction
Digging up presuppositions
"Suffering presence"
Writing about the disabled
"A theology of human being"
The contributory view of worth
No instrumental value
The goodness of being
"Freely creative activity"
Conclusion
A trinitarian concept of divine and human being
Introduction: intrinsic qualities
The double portrait of man
"Relationality"
Trinitarian theology and "relational being"
The contribution of John D. Zizioulas
Ecstatic personhood as ecclesial reality
Zizioulas's critics
Extrinsic movement
Conclusion
Ethics
The fullness of being: God's friendship
Introduction: three responses
Difference
"Activities that direct us to God"
"Poised between chaos and cosmos"
From first to last : all is grace
Disability as moral failure?
Steadfast love without reciprocation
Receiving the gift of friendship
Introduction
Receiving
The story of a man born blind
Seeing
Three caveats
Being with
No hiding in strength
Moments of wonder
Learning to become friends
Introduction
My friend Ronald
"We are friends, aren't we?"
Aristotle's friends
Christian friendship
Eucharistic practice
The face of friendship
Friendship with the profoundly disabled.