Erinn Staley

"All Are Welcome": Feminist Ecclesiology and Intellectual Disability

Date: Monday, April 2, 2012 - 5:30pm
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Erinn Staley (Religious Studies) "All Are Welcome":  Feminist Ecclesiology and Intellectual Disability. This paper responds to the problem of church discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities.  Drawing on feminist liberation theologian Letty
Russell, it advocates a theology of hospitality in which congregations seek the presence and full participation of people with disabilities, including recognizing them as practitioners--not only recipients--of welcome.