{"id":2378,"date":"2010-04-10T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2010-04-10T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:33:16","slug":"nancy-eiesland-the-disabled-god-how-do-we-define-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/nancy-eiesland-the-disabled-god-how-do-we-define-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"(Nancy Eiesland) 'The Disabled God' -How do we define "normal"?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In reality, all of us “healthy” or “normal” people can more aptly call ourselves, “the temporarily<\/em> able-bodied.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theologian, sociologist, and author Nancy Eiesland was wheelchair bound since childhood. She surprised many when she said she hoped to be disabled in heaven<\/strong>. She died at age 44 of congenital lung cancer, but not before she made huge inroads for the Rights and Dignity of the Disabled, and penned a groundbreaking book about understanding disability, and suffering, in light of God, and his nature.<\/p>\n

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Nancy Eiesland 1965-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Article excerpt on Eiesland\u00a0from the “Scotsman” publication:<\/em><\/p>\n

By the time of her death, Eiesland had come to believe God was disabled, a view she articulated in her influential 1994 book, The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability<\/em>. She pointed to the scene described in Luke 24:36-39 in which the risen Jesus invites his disciples to touch his wounds.<\/p>\n

“In presenting his impaired body to his startled friends, the resurrected Jesus is revealed as the disabled God,” she wrote. God remains a God the disabled can identify with, she argued \u2013 he is not cured and made whole; his injury is part of him, neither a divine punishment nor an opportunity for healing. FULL ARTICLE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is normal? Nancy Eiesland, author of “The Disabled God”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,76],"tags":[121,6535,296,299,556,888,928,985,986,988,1112,1472,1575,1608,41,2014,2096,2190,2193,2304,2364,2621,2730,2825,2888,2990,3134,3391,85,3678,3685,3760],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-abnormal","tag-authors","tag-autism","tag-autism-awareness-month","tag-candler-school-of-theology","tag-cure","tag-deborah-beth-creamer","tag-disability","tag-disability-studies","tag-disabled-rights","tag-emory-university","tag-god","tag-handicap","tag-heaven","tag-jesus","tag-liberation-theology-of-disability","tag-lung-cancer","tag-mental-handicap","tag-mental-retardation","tag-nancy-eiesland","tag-normal","tag-postmodernity","tag-puff-chair","tag-rehabilitation","tag-rights-and-dignity-of-persons-with-disabilities","tag-scotsman","tag-sociology","tag-the-disabled-god","tag-theology","tag-what-is-normal","tag-wheelchair-bound","tag-wounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}