Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole /
Attitudes about disability have such deep cultural roots we almost forget their sources, but open the Bible and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters, Isaac is blind, Jesus heals the sick, the paralyzed and the possessed. Yet religious leaders and cultural commentators treat disability as a metap...
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Claiming disability
- Grappling with the Bible: gender, disability, and God
- Hiddenness and visibility: passing and presenting as disabled
- Ableism: the social-political dimension of disability
- Priestly blemishes: talking back to the Bible's ideal bodies
- Moses: portrait of a disabled prophet
- The land you cannot enter: longing, loss, and other inaccessible terrain
- The perils of healing
- Isaac's blindness: the complexity of trust
- Jacob and the angel: wheels, wings, and the brilliance of disability difference
- The politics of beauty: disability and desire
- The radical practice of rest: Shabbat values and disability justice
- God on wheels: disability theology.