“Those Who Cannot See the Whole Are Offended by the Apparent Deformity of a Part”: Disability in Augustine's City of God
In De ciuitate Dei (ciu.), Augustine famously calls people with disabilities created on purpose by an absolutely competent God (16.8). On the whole, however, Augustine's views on disabilities in ciu. are often misunderstood. The statement about the creation of people with disabilities is part o...
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 540-566 |
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Augustine
B Dignity B Creation B De civitate Dei B Theodicy B Disabilities |
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