Ways of Knowing God, Becoming Friends in Time; a timeless conversation between disability, theology, Edith Stein and Professor John Swinton
Over time disability theology has successfully argued that ‘people with disabilities have at best been minority voices in the development of Christian theology and at worst have been completely silenced within its conversation’. Decisions have been made about people rather than with them. Disability...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of disability & religion |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor & Francis
[2020]
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Journal of disability & religion
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Disability
B sense-ability B Experience B unrepeatable B response-ability B person essence |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Over time disability theology has successfully argued that ‘people with disabilities have at best been minority voices in the development of Christian theology and at worst have been completely silenced within its conversation’. Decisions have been made about people rather than with them. Disability theologian John Swinton believes that at the heart of this problem we might notice a judgemental ‘hypercognitive’. Church which, paradoxically, works in opposition to Christian anthropology of the givenness of every person. Such a paradox serves only to downgrade the ‘Locus theologicus: present in human experience’ and the faith expressions of ‘people whose life experience includes disability’. A reading of modern philosopher Edith Stein’s insatiable interest in the human person and the importance of empathic practice, within the human exchange, can make some significant contributions to this problematic issue. Emulating a method of inductive writing, utilized by Stein herself, the article investigates what this contribution might be by entering into an imaginary conversation between her phenomenal, anthropological-theological thinking and that of a foundational voice in disability theology, Professor John Swinton. 1 |
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| ISSN: | 2331-253X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of disability & religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2020.1750537 |