Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship - Softcover

Swinton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334055571 ISBN 13: 9780334055570

Publisher: SCM Press, 2017

Synopsis

In Becoming Friends of Time, John Swinton crafts a theology of time that draws us toward a perspective wherein time is a gift and a calling. Time is not a commodity nor is time to be mastered. Time is a gift of God to humans, but is also a gift given back to God by humans. 

Swinton wrestles with critical questions that emerge from theological reflection on time and disability: rethinking doctrine for those who can never grasp Jesus with their intellects; reimagining discipleship and vocation for those who have forgotten who Jesus is; reconsidering salvation for those who, due to neurological damage, can be one person at one time and then be someone else in an instant. 

In the end, Swinton invites the reader to spend time with the experiences of people with profound neurological disability, people who can change our perceptions of time, enable us to grasp the fruitful rhythms of God’s time, and help us learn to live in ways that are unimaginable within the boundaries of the time of the clock.

About this title

About the Author

John Swinton is Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of 'Dementia: Living in the Memories of God' for which he won the 2016 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing

Edition details

• Publisher: SCM Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0334055571
• ISBN 13: 9780334055570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256