Spirit And The Politics Of Disablement by Sharon V. Betcher

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A promising young theologian here analyzes our world and God's embodied presence in the light of her own disability and the insight it affords. In this remarkable and incisive work, Sharon Betcher claims disablement as a site of powerful social and religious critique and reflection, as, well as fruitful theological understanding. With searing honesty, she reveals how our culture, only recently tolerant and supportive of disabled people, still fears them. The presence of disabled persons, she argues, stands as a rebuke to our images of body and health, to the distorted values of our consumerist culture, and to the globalized economy that embodies those values in unjust structures. Yet, Betcher claims, when released from the "ideology of normalcy," disablement has also revealed powerful alternative understandings of the body and body politic, in Scripture, in the actions of Jesus, in the healing work of the Spirit at work in a broken world. A theology that "stares back," Betcher's highly original work brims with ideas and is itself a revelation and a bracing challenge to all Christians.

About the Author:
Sharon V. Betcher is Associate Professor of Theology at Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia

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