Nancy Eisland, author of “The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability,” has died.
She pointed to the scene described in Luke 24:36-39 in which the risen Jesus invites his disciples to touch his wounds.
“In presenting his impaired body to his startled friends, the resurrected Jesus is revealed as the disabled God,” she wrote. God remains a God the disabled can identify with, she argued — he is not cured and made whole; his injury is part of him, neither a divine punishment nor an opportunity for healing.
Ms. Eiesland (pronounced EES-lund), who was an associate professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, died not of her congenital bone condition, nor of the spinal scoliosis that necessitated still more surgery in 2002, but of a possibly genetic lung cancer, said her husband, Terry.
via NYTimes.com
2 comments:
Thank you for linking to this article about someone I didn't know enough about....It challenged me to be more open about my own disability and more compassionate about my son's (both bipolar disorder). Now I need to read her book.
Sophia- thanks for reading - and your comment. I found her book to be groundbreaking in its affirmation of people with disabilities.
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