Disability Theology and Eschatology: Hope, Justice, and Flourishing
Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (
forthcoming)
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Abstract
Christian theology looks forward to a consummation of all things in which hope, justice, and flourishing will finally prevail. All creation will be perfectly united to God as its Creator, and all shall be well. But what does this mean for disabled people? The typical Christian answer through history has been that disability will not exist in the world to come. The advent of disability theology has given us reasons to doubt this answer, but until now no extended treatment of disability and eschatology has existed. In response, this book gathers together essays from established and emerging scholars alike to provide an extensive look at what it might mean to imagine disability as a part of humanity’s ultimate ends. Across its pages we aim to advance conversations in disability theology through rigorously creative work, including on the much neglected topic of psychiatric disability. As such, our contributors ask and answer questions like “how can one’s well-being be high if they are disabled?,” “how do our beauty standards limit our eschatological thinking?,” “what does dissociative identity disorder mean for the afterlife?,” and more.
Contributors include Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis), Harvey Cawdron (St Andrews), Jessica Coblentz (Saint Mary's College), Erin Raffety and Emma Worrall (Princeton Seminary), Derek Estes (Pepperdine), Samuel Youngs (Bryan College), Maja Whitaker (Laidlaw College), and the editors.