The Dangers and Necessity of Speaking up for the Voiceless

Abstract

that this strife between rival visions of Christianity is constantly alive within the thought of individual Christians and is by no means absent from contemporary thinking about disability as well as Christian enactments of the human. The most eloquent voices raised in defense of a Christianity that valued fragile and marginal human life had to make themselves heard in the face of the fears and desire for power that were dominant in the Christianity of their times. No golden past beyond conflict exists, and agreement as well as disagreement are integral to the very idea of tradition (emphasis original).