TY - BOOK ID - 86071221 TI - Disavowing disability : Richard Baxter and the conditions of salvation PY - 2021 SN - 1108913512 9781108913515 9781108910880 9781108912709 9781108823128 1108823122 1108912702 1108910882 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Disabilities KW - Salvation KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - History KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Baxter, Richard, KW - Disability KW - Disabling conditions KW - Handicaps KW - Impairment KW - Physical disabilities KW - Physical handicaps KW - Diseases KW - Wounds and injuries KW - Animals with disabilities KW - People with disabilities KW - Bakster, Richard, KW - Bacster, Richard, KW - R. B. KW - RB KW - Salvianus, Gildas, KW - Baxter, Ricrard, KW - Baxter, KW - Baxter, R. KW - Reed, KW - Author of The last century, KW - Last century, Author of the, KW - One that is consecrated to sacred ministry, KW - Bacter, Richard, KW - Timorcus, Theophilus KW - English language and literature KW - English language and literature. KW - History of doctrines. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86071221 AB - 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. ER -