TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKendry,Andrew
TI  - Disavowing disability: Richard Baxter and the conditions of salvation 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections
SN  - 9781108913515 (ebook)
AV  - BX5207.B3 M34 2021
U1  - 285.90924 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Baxter, Richard,
KW  - Salvation
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Disabilities
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - History
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jul 2021); Open Access title
N2  - 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. In constructing an ideology of ability that imposed moral self-determination, Baxter encountered a germinal form of the 'problem' of disability in liberal theory. While a strategy of 'inclusionism' served to assimilate most manifestations of alterity, melancholy presented an intractability that frustrated the logic of rehabilitation in fatal ways. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913515
ER  -