Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-432) and indexes.

Anticipating Down syndrome and disability. Introduction : narrating and imagining Down syndrome and disability ; The blind, the deaf, and the lame : biblical and historical trajectories -- Down syndrome and disability in the modern world. Medicalizing Down syndrome : disability in the world of modern science ; Deconstructing and reconstructing disability : late modern discourses ; Disability in context : feminist, cultural, and world religious perspectives -- Reimagining and renewing theology in late modernity : enabling a disabled world. Reimagining the doctrines of creation, providence, and the imago Dei : rehabilitating Down syndrome and disability ; Renewing ecclesiology : Down syndrome, disability, and the community of those being redeemed ; Rethinking soteriology : on saving Down syndrome and disability ; Resurrecting Down syndrome and disability : heaven and the healing of the world.