Shane Clifton is Honorary Associate and Professor at the Centre of Disability Research and Policy in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney.
Crippled Grace is a wide-ranging reflection on the issues
surrounding disability and flourishing. Clifton boldly asks the
difficult and confronting questions, recognising his limitations
and being prepared to not have comprehensive answers, while still
setting a solid framework for understanding the dynamics of
flourishing and challenges and issues that are presently hindering
it for the disabled community. Paragraph after paragraph the work
continues to offer wisdom and insight as Clifton shows a
comprehensive awareness of the relevant ethical, practical and
theological concerns. -- Christopher Car -- Journal of Contemporary
Ministry
This book deserves to be read by anyone interested in the fragility
of the human condition and the hope God's grace gives. --
Choice
[Clifton] also manages to combine personal honesty with
sophisticated reflection, a feat too rare in academic theology
today. This is truly a book all who want to work in theology and
disability should read, because it is thoughtful, brutally honest,
deeply reflective, and methodologically sophisticated. -- Aaron
Klink -- Reading Religion
Clifton has convinced me that what my congregation needs is not
wheelchair ramps and ADA-approved restrooms so much as a wrecking
ball taken to its Sunday-best pretenses.... Crippled Grace helps us
see, regardless of ability, that this sort of frank admission of
brokenness-and a candid willingness to be dependent upon God or
others-is the path to happiness. -- Jason Micheli -- The Christian
Century
Clifton forges into new territory and produces perhaps the most
thorough work by a Pentecostal scholar on disability and suffering
and surely the most important work on this topic since Amos Yong's
Theology and Down Syndrome (Baylor University Press, 2007). I
heartily endorse this work as a primary textbook for disability
studies, ethics, and human relationships, as well as secondary and
recommended reading for Pentecostal-specific courses with emphases
upon healing, prophetic justice, suffering, and practical theology.
This work also deserves a wide readership among pastors,
particularly those engaged in pastoral care, and all readers
interested in ministry to, from, and with our friends in the
disability community. -- Martin W. Mittelstadt -- Pneuma: The
Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies
Crippled Grace belongs in our library of ethics as envisioned by
disabled people - exemplifying how disabled people actively develop
and enact virtues for living a good life specific to our realities.
-- Alise de Bie -- Disability and Society
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