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Paperback / softback. New. An estimated 76 million people worldwide are affected by autism-current figures suggest that 1 in 100 people live somewhere along the autism spectrum, though many remain undiagnosed. Frequently, autism occurs alongside other conditions, such as anxiety or depression. Yet despite autism's prevalence and impact, the church remains slow to adapt, with responses that are often poorly informed and irresponsible. In Autism and the Church Grant Macaskill provides a careful, attentive, and sustained analysis of the reality of autism within the church and how this should be approached theologically.Macaskill demonstrates that attempts to read the Bible with reference to autism are often deficient because they move too quickly from the study of particular texts to claims about the condition and how it should be viewed. This leads some Christians to see autism as something that should be healed or even exorcised. Macaskill instead invites readers to struggle with the biblical…
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- Title Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community
- Author Grant Macaskill
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 239
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Baylor University Press
- Date 2021-03-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781481311250 / 1481311255
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.56 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.42 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Autism, Autism - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019015098
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.858
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