Sustaining Hope: Friendships and Intellectual Impairment

by David B. McEwan, Jim Good

Overview

In the Gospels we encounter many people who were shunned by their society because they lived with some form of impairment. In stark contrast, Jesus embraces these people and offers compassion without condescension, relationship without ulterior motive, and provides them with practical help. Subsequent history has rarely matched his ministry, particularly for people living with intellectual impairment and their families. Based on personal interviews with a number of families who have children living with intellectual impairment, two major challenges constantly impacted them--a longing for people to treat their child as a person and to form genuine friendships with them. Written from a Wesleyan perspective, this book seeks to address these two issues from a theological and pastoral perspective. It offers practical help for anyone to initiate and develop healthy friendships with people who live with moderate to severe intellectual impairment, their families, and carers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532667237
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	06/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David B. McEwan is Director of Research and Associate Professor of Theology and Pastoral Theology at Nazarene Theological College Brisbane and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. He serves as the pastor of the Logan Community Church of the Nazarene and is the author of Wesley as a Pastoral Theologian (2011) and The Life of God in the Soul (2015).



Jim Good is a Special Education Teacher at Moss Vale High School (NSW) and has also taught at Mater Dei Special School (NSW), and Narbethong State Special School (QLD). He has presented papers on disability studies at several conferences in Australia and New Zealand.

David B. McEwan is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Nazarene Theological College, Brisbane, Australia.