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Courtney Wilder

Courtney Wilder

Professor of Religion

Midland University

Courtney Wilder is professor of religion at Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. In 2016 she published Disability, Faith and the Church: Inclusion and Accommodation in Contemporary Congregations with Praeger.

Published Articles

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Luther, the Catechisms, and Intellectual Disability

Courtney Wilder

No. 47 · Spring 2018

Wilder confronts Luther’s deeply troubling response to a child with disabilities at Dessau, then mines his Small and Large Catechisms for a Lutheran theology of inclusion — reading the Third Article of the Creed, the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, and the sacrament of baptism as resources that affirm the full humanity of people with intellectual disabilities as faithful children of God.

Courtney Wilder

Published Articles

Luther, the Catechisms, and Intellectual Disability