Deborah Beth Creamer

Body Parts

Theology

““Michelle Voss Roberts has crafted a remarkable text here, weaving together Christian and Hindu understandings of the self and of the divine in ways that not only lead to better understandings of each tradition but that also fearlessly take on some of the most challenging issues in theological anthropology. This scholarly but accessible volume will doubtlessly spark meaningful and engaged classroom discussion; it is also valuable for those of us who seek nuanced understandings of the embodied self that attend to vulnerability and interdependence. This volume is especially relevant and important in our current age, particularly insofar as it affirms the beauty of difference and the necessity of multiplicity."”

Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness

Evangelism & Missions

“This accessible volume does one of the best things that good scholarship can do: it puts two disciplines in conversation with each other and invites them to listen, learn, create, and ultimately act in ways that have the potential to make the world a better place. After reading this text, one wonders why these discourses had not engaged each other sooner, given their overlapping areas of interest as well as the potential for synergy and new growth. Not only does this book make significant contributions to the individual fields of contemporary missiology and of disability studies, this work also has immediate and concrete applications in churches and beyond and could be a fruitful model for other [dis]abling projects as well. Beyond all this, the narrative serves as a reminder of what it means to be a true community of faith, at once contextual and interdependent, empowering and inspiring us to encounter each other more fully.”