Book — Baylor University Press, 2021
Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving
Part of the Baylor University Press Studies on Religion, Theology and Disability series.
About the book
Formed Together is a culmination of many years' work and personal experience — beautiful and intermingled with profound delight and heartbreaking loss.
The book explores how our experiences of caregiving reveal the mystery of our shared human limits and the divine image in one another. Drawing from theology, philosophy, and personal stories, Dr. Dow challenges professional and cultural assumptions about ability, virtue, and transparency.
He invites readers to encounter caregiving not as a set of skills to master, but as a formative practice of love, humility, and courageous belonging, shaped by the mystery of God's love already given. Rooted in lived experiences with people with intellectual disabilities, Formed Together offers a reflective yet accessible vision of Christian caregiving as mutual transformation, not mere service.