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“Community as a Window of Hope”The Story of an Emerging L’Arche Community

Cassidy Klein

Resource Types

Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)

Resource Languages

English

Institutional Repository

Point Loma Nazarene University

Description / Abstract

This project tells the stories of families involved in an emerging L'Arche community in San Diego through a short documentary and narrative storytelling that also explores disability theology and the meaning of 'community.' L'Arche is a worldwide federation of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together. My paper engages with philosophers such as Jean Luc Nancy, Sharon Betcher, Nancy Eisland and others to rethink ‘community’ as encounter rather than ideology.