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Rising Above A Crippling Hermeneutic, Luke Steven, Carlos, Armando Thompson
Rising Above A Crippling Hermeneutic, Luke Steven, Carlos, Armando Thompson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Sacred texts authored in antiquity present a challenge for contemporary religious practitioners because there is always a question regarding how to interpret and apply the message today. Prominent Pentecostal theologian and disability theorist Amos Yong faces this challenge concerning the Bible as it relates to disabilities and those who have them. As I argue in this thesis, Yong succeeds in challenging the Pentecostal perceptions of disability without compromising on the over-all Pentecostal view of scripture.
The Hebrew Bible, which, according to Yong, "...serves as the foundation of the Christian scriptures," contains multiple passages that portray disability in a negative light. …