Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2058148
David Lê
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2058147
Saša A. Horvat, T. Horvat
Abstract People with different needs and abilities continue to be marginalized by society, including by church communities. One of these groups is people on the autism spectrum. Disability theology seeks to point to the dignity of every human being as an imago Dei, and as a gift of God. In search of perspectives that will contribute to a clearer understanding of this truth and the overcoming of prejudice and marginalization, this paper analyzes the phenomenon of creativity. This is a phenomenon that is important in many disciplines, and thus underlies the theology of creation, philosophical and everyday thinking. Furthermore, empirical studies examine the relationship between autism and creativity. Their results emphasize the exceptional talent and creativity of as many as a third of the members of this group. Building on these insights, the article promotes creativity as a field of relationship between God the Creator and all people, with each individual called by God to creatively shape themselves and the world in which they live. By focusing the theological view on the marginalized group of people on the autism spectrum and emphasizing the necessity of the whole body of Christ, we are not stressing the importance of the product and usefulness of the individual’s creativity but the belief that all humans are equally called to co-create God’s plan, regardless of the possibilities and obstacles the individual faces.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-26DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2051677
B. Brock
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Pub Date : 2022-03-26DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2051678
B. Brock
Put in the situation of needing to sum up what I wanted to say about disability without reducing it to something less complex than it is, I reached for a range of aesthetic themes, supremely, the category of wonder. Wonder is not solely an aesthetic category (Klink, 2020; McFarland, 2020), but does have stronger aesthetic aspects than I realized, which is no doubt why it attracted me as more capacious than the traditional doctrinal term it is expressing, revelation. I am extremely grateful that Stephen Wright has educated me as to precisely how my argument relies on aesthetic claims. It helps me understand what I am seeing when something appears strange or uncanny, prompting me to slow down and attempt to describe what I have seen in order to better appreciate what just happened. Wright also helped me to link up another set of inchoate impressions. One occurred during a visit to the supposed resting place of Paul’s bones in Rome, the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Before the door of the church stands a huge statue of Paul brandishing a long sword. Inside, the sanctuary is lined with rows of giant white marble statues labeled on their plinths as biblical saints. The bodies of these saints are indistinguishable from the statues of Greek gods. I have never imagined Paul as a physical Adonis (2 Corinthians 10:10), nor Jesus for that matter, who at his crucifixion fit the prophet’s description of the messiah as one who appalled onlookers, “so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human” (Is. 52:14, NJB; Matthew 27:30). I could not help thinking how jarring it would seem if one of the disabled saints that I know were carved in marble and placed in this lineup. The aesthetics dominating the space would position their bodies as embarrassingly disproportionate (an insight recently explored in secular sculpture, Brock, 2005). Wright explains that the problem is the Greek aesthetics of proportionality, insinuated into Christianity through the Neoplatonism of Pseudo Dionysius. This insight gives me language to articulate why it seemed intuitively important in Wondrously Wounded to draw out Augustine’s insistence that the link https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2022.2051678
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Pub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2051679
B. Brock
I am in Joanna Leidenhag’s debt for so clearly describing how my account of doxology asks a new question in order to advance current scholarly discussions about the contribution of people with disabilities to the life of the church: “How do we receive those who bear the label ‘disabled’ or ‘autistic,’ as a word of judgment from the Spirit calling the church into the likeness of Christ, whilst simultaneously empowering those same people to be fully enveloped in the loving arms of mother church? Brock has offered us a ‘doxological approach’ in order to combine the best of both inclusivity and prophecy and to avoid the twin pitfalls of marginalization and romanticization.” A strikingly precise encapsulation of a theological proposal in which I am deeply invested.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2049431
B. Brock
Abstract Calle Micale prompts discussion of the importance of divine judgment. Sarah Jean Barton engages the role of method in disability theology. Louise Gosbell prompts questions about resurrected life. Kate Bowman-Evans extends a disability hermeneutic on behalf of others marginalized by the church. Kevin Timpe wants less Christian optimism. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran and Joanna Leidenhag ask how autistic people might be tripped up by issues of race and a church that is deaf to their voices. Stephen Wright’s aesthetics leads to a clarification of wonder language. A conclusion asks about anger and hope in the face of injustice and divine mercy.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2051681
B. Brock
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).
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Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2049429
B. Brock
Kate Bowman-Evans suggests that the exegetical procedure I pursue in Wondrously Wounded is one that is promising for that church that seeks to navigate its relationships with all sorts of people who have been socially marginalized more faithfully. By offering Christians an alternative exegetical procedure to the sorts of biblical scholarship that dominates theological education today, I allow the church to face its scriptures more self-criti-cally. A more self-critical reading is one that is aware that the readings of others are essential to a church that is together plumbing the fullness of scripture and the Christian tradition. I am grateful for Bowman-Evan’s attention to this strand of the book, which I not only affirm but would like in this response to make even more explicit.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2051680
B. Brock
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Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2049427
B. Brock
Sarah Jean Barton very generously reads Wondrously Wounded as offering a fresh methodological approach to a range of problems and puzzles that attend theological thinking about the intellectually disabled. Deftly inverting Miguel Romero’s (2020) criticism of the overall approach I pursue in Wondrously Wounded , she proposes that I have proved that the irruptive singularity of Adam’s witness can be meaningfully held together with a faithful reading of the Christian theological tradition. I am deeply appre-ciative of her drawing attention to the fact that I seek an approach that not only valorizes, but embodies the maxim “nothing about us without us,” and does so taking full account of my being an able-bodied neuro-typical white man.
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