Using ethnographic fieldwork, the book offers a deeper understanding of how grace and sin are visible within the lives and relationships of people with intellectual disabilities.

Using ethnographic research, The Work of Inclusion brings the standpoints of people with intellectual disabilities to the forefront of the theological conversation around disability, inclusion, grace, and sin.

In a world shaped by interdependency, developing a theological attunement to intellectual disability helps us to understand that human agency is both enabled by and limited by dependency relationships. Only by recognizing the kinds of complex layers of agency seen in this ethnographic study can Christian ethics more broadly address the place of hope, grace, and resistance against structures of sin and injustice.

"Using ethnographic research, Cuddeback-Gedeon attempts to bridge the gap between disabled communities and the scholarship that aims to represent them. Cuddeback-Gedeon urges scholars to not merely discuss people with IDD from a distance but to, instead, generate and enhance disability discourse alongside IDD communities as prominent and essential conversation partners" - Reading Religion