RT Article
T1 Is There a "Theology of the Disabled Body"? John Paul II's Theology of the Body on Limit and Sign
JF Journal of disability & religion
VO 20
IS 3
SP 163
OP 177
A1 Windley, Susan
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1572017937
AB This essay examines the potential influence of John Paul II's theological anthropology as expressed in the Theology of the Body audiences and associated literature on key issues raised by the contemporary Theology of Disability. Although John Paul II did not directly address the issue of disability in the audiences, he does spend the first half of the audiences elaborating a theology of the sign of the human body, and its import in understanding that we are all called to self-giving relationship. The foci on the ensouled body as sign and the imago Dei best perceived in relationship can both reveal a way of thinking about the meaning of the impaired, ensouled body that honors and frames the experience of unexpected limit and the universal call to holiness.
K1 Catholic
K1 Creamer
K1 Imago Dei
K1 Impairment
K1 John Paul II
K1 limit
K1 Reinders
K1 Reynolds
K1 Theological Anthropology
K1 Vanier
K1 Yong
DO 10.1080/23312521.2016.1210947