Made in an Imperfect Image: Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Infirmity in the Life of Aphou

At the beginning of a debate concerning human imperfection, the Bishop Theophilus supposedly asked: “How can you [Aphou] say of the Ethiopian that he is in the image of God? Or someone who is leprous or lame or blind?” This inquiry, recorded in the fifth-century Coptic Life of Aphou, offers a glimps...

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Main Author: Buckner, Candace (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2019]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 87, Issue: 2, Pages: 483-511
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Vita von Apa Aphu, des Anachoreten und Bischofs von Pemdje / Image of God / Physical disability / Racism
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KBL Near East and North Africa
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