Disability, Healing, and the Problem of Miracles: Perils and Possibilities for Disabled Hope
Biblical stories of miraculous healing are often presented as emblems of hope. Disability scholars, however, draw attention to various theological and pastoral problems perpetuated by these stories. With the aim of critically interrogating the character of disabled hope, this article explores the in...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Concilium
Year: 2024, Issue: 3, Pages: 11-20 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Handicap
/ Hope
/ Healing
/ Miracle
/ Contextual theology
B Gospels / Miraculous healing / Faith / Salvation (motif) |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Miracles
B Hermeneutics B Hope |
| Summary: | Biblical stories of miraculous healing are often presented as emblems of hope. Disability scholars, however, draw attention to various theological and pastoral problems perpetuated by these stories. With the aim of critically interrogating the character of disabled hope, this article explores the inescapable difficulties of miracle stories and highlights the insights that emerge through their cracks. When viewed with a disability hermeneutic, these stories reflect a powerful association between disability, potency, and agency. Here, durable disabled hope emerges as an interdependent reality inseparable from the recognition of disabled agency and the creation of socio-political spaces in which it can be exercised. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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