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Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation

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Disavowing Disability examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. Exploring how the use and definition of the term 'disability' functioned to allocate agency and culpability, this study argues that the post-Restoration imperative to capacitate 'all men'—not just the 'elect'—entailed a conceptual circumscription of disability, one premised on a normative imputation of capability. The work of Richard Baxter, sometimes considered a harbinger of 'modernity' and one of the most influential divines of the Long Eighteenth Century, elucidates this multifarious process of enabling.

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362.1 MCK d

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2021

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781108913515

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362.1

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Orang sakit dan disabilitas

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Andrew McKendry

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Erwin Hendarto

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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913515

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