Aquinas on Physical Impairment: Human Nature and Original Sin

Medieval accounts of disability by and large (though not universally) defend what is now labeled the “religio-moral” construction of disability: seeing an individual's disability as a punishment for that individual's sin. Unsurprisingly, such models are not much in favor among contemporary...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cross, Richard 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2017]
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2017, Volume: 110, Issue: 3, Pages: 317-338
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274 / Physical disability / Original sin / Punishment
IxTheo Classification:KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBE Anthropology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Volltext (doi)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1582148031
003 DE-627
005 20190313152643.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 181022s2017 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1017/S001781601700013X  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1582148031 
035 |a (DE-576)512148031 
035 |a (DE-599)BSZ512148031 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)174042477  |0 (DE-627)698939387  |0 (DE-576)13487790X  |4 aut  |a Cross, Richard  |d 1964- 
109 |a Cross, Richard 1964-  |a Cross, Richard Alan 1964- 
245 1 0 |a Aquinas on Physical Impairment  |b Human Nature and Original Sin  |c Richard Cross 
264 1 |c [2017] 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Medieval accounts of disability by and large (though not universally) defend what is now labeled the “religio-moral” construction of disability: seeing an individual's disability as a punishment for that individual's sin. Unsurprisingly, such models are not much in favor among contemporary disability theorists for a number of reasons, among which we might include the unacceptable thought that an individual with disabilities somehow deserves those disabilities. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) accepts some version of this theory, but one rather different from the standard one (or at least, from what is now generally understood as the religio-moral model). Aquinas sees physical impairments—things that constitute a subclass of what he labels “bodily defects”—fundamentally as punishments for original sin. He is (generally) very careful to distance his account of defects from notions of individual punishment. (When he is not, it is because of pressure from Scriptural sources—though as we shall see below he believes that by and large the Bible, too, explicitly rejects the view that disability could be a punishment for individual sin.) So whatever we think of punishment models more generally, Aquinas's certainly removes one of the least appealing aspects of such models as typically understood. And Aquinas is careful, too, to associate many features of the human condition—not just those identified as a certain subclass of defects - with corporate punishment for original sin. To this extent, his account of physical impairments tends to normalize such impairments, and to de-emphasize their distance from other features of post-lapsarian human existence. While I doubt that what Aquinas says about bodily defects would satisfy many contemporary disability theorists, it seems to me that parts of his accout—and not least this normalization strategy—may appeal to more theologically-inflected accounts of the human condition. 
652 |a KAE:KDB:NBE 
689 0 0 |d p  |0 (DE-588)118622110  |0 (DE-627)134387503  |0 (DE-576)209132787  |2 gnd  |a Thomas  |c von Aquin, Heiliger  |d 1225-1274 
689 0 1 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4031584-8  |0 (DE-627)106264869  |0 (DE-576)208993320  |2 gnd  |a Körperbehinderung 
689 0 2 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4015122-0  |0 (DE-627)106337807  |0 (DE-576)208910522  |2 gnd  |a Erbsünde 
689 0 3 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4057785-5  |0 (DE-627)106149474  |0 (DE-576)209123699  |2 gnd  |a Strafe 
689 0 |5 (DE-627) 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Harvard theological review  |d Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1908  |g 110(2017), 3, Seite 317-338  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)331504553  |w (DE-600)2051494-3  |w (DE-576)094533326  |x 1475-4517  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:110  |g year:2017  |g number:3  |g pages:317-338 
856 4 0 |u https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/aquinas-on-physical-impairment-human-nature-and-original-sin/A8A7B78D6D3045EB0F771903AE0E3A16  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
856 |u https://doi.org/10.1017/S001781601700013X  |x doi  |3 Volltext 
936 u w |d 110  |j 2017  |e 3  |h 317-338 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 302935332X 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1582148031 
LOK |0 005 20190313152643 
LOK |0 008 181022||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a ixzo 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442049839  |a KDB 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 144205168X  |a NBE 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442044462  |a KAE 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw 
STA 0 0 |a Original sin,Original sin,Physical disability,Physical handicap,Punishment,Punishment,Sanction,Penalty,Punishment in art 
STB 0 0 |a Handicap physique,Peine,Peine,Punition,Châtiment,Punition,Châtiment,Punition (motif),Châtiment,Punition,Châtiment,Péché originel,Péché originel 
STC 0 0 |a Discapacidad física,Pecado original,Pecado original,Pena,Pena,Castigo,Castigo,Castigo (Motivo),Castigo 
STD 0 0 |a Disabilità fisica,Peccato originale,Peccato originale,Pena <motivo>,Pena,Castigo,Castigo,Castigo (motivo),Castigo 
STE 0 0 |a 原罪,原罪,惩罚,惩罚,惩处,处罚,惩处,处罚,肢体残疾,残废,伤残 
STF 0 0 |a 原罪,原罪,懲罰,懲罰,懲處,處罰,懲處,處罰,肢體殘疾,殘廢,傷殘 
STG 0 0 |a Deficiência física,Pecado original,Pecado original,Pena,Pena,Castigo,Castigo,Castigo (Motivo),Castigo 
STH 0 0 |a Инвалидность,Первородный грех (мотив),Первородный грех,Штраф <мотив>,Штраф,Наказание,Наказание (мотив) 
STI 0 0 |a Ποινή <μοτίβο>,Ποινή,Τιμωρία,Τιμωρία (μοτίβο),Προπατορικό αμάρτημα (μοτίβο),Προπατορικό αμάρτημα,Σωματική αναπηρία 
SYG 0 0 |a Thomas,von Aquin,1225-1274,Thomas,de Aquino, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,de Aquino,1225-1274,Thomas,ab Aquino, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,ab Aquino,1225-1274,Doctor Angelicus,1225-1274,Dottore angelico,1225-1274,Thomas,Akinatos, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Akuinatos, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinatus, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinas, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinus, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinatus, Sanctus,1225-1274,Thōmas,Akinatos, Heiliger,1225-1274,Tommaso,d'Aquino, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,von Aquino, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,von Aquino,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinatis, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,d'Aquin, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,d'Aquin, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,de Aquinas, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Camisensis, Heiliger,1225-1274,Tomás,de Aquino, Heiliger,1225-1274,Tomasz,z Akwinu, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,ho Akinatas, Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Daqui, Heiliger,1225-1274,Tommaso,d'Aquino, San,1225-1274,Tommaso,d'Aquino,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinas, Saint,1225-1274,Tomás,de Aquino, Santo,1225-1274,Tūmā al-Akwīnī,Heiliger,1225-1274,Thomas,Beatus,1225-1274,Aquinatus, Thomas,Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquin, Thomas,von, Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquino, Thomas,von, Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquinas, Thomas,de, Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquino, Tommaso,d', Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquino, Thomas,de, Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquino, Tomás,de, Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquinas, Thomas,Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquinas, Thomas,Saint,1225-1274,Aquino, Tommaso Niccolò,d', Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquino, Tommaso N.,d', Heiliger,1225-1274,Akvinskij, Foma,Heiliger,1225-1274,Aquinas,Heiliger,1225-1274,Akwīnī, Tūmā,al-, Heiliger,1225-1274,Foma,Akvinskij, Heiliger,1225-1274,Daqui, Thomas,Seut,1225-1274,Pseudo-Thomas,von Aquin,1225-1274,Pseudo-Thomas,Aquinas,1225-1274,Pseudo-Thomas,de Aquino,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinas, Saint,1225-1274,Ak'vineli, T'oma,Saint,1225-1274,Akvinietis, Tomas,Saint,1225-1274,Akvinskii, Foma,Saint,1225-1274,Aquinas,1225-1274,Aquinas, Thomas,Saint,1225-1274,Foma,Akvinskiĭ, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,Aquinas, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,av Aquino, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,d'Aquin, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,von Aquin, Saint,1225-1274,T'oma,Ak'vineli, Saint,1225-1274,Toma,Akvinski, Saint,1225-1274,Toma,Akvinskii, Saint,1225-1274,Toma,Akvins'kyi, Saint,1225-1274,Toma,ot Akvino, Saint,1225-1274,Tomas,Akvinietis, Saint,1225-1274,Tomas,de Aquino, Saint,1225-1274,Tomasu,Akuinasu, Saint,1225-1274,Tomasu,Akwinasu, Saint,1225-1274,Tomasz,Akwinu, Saint,1225-1274,Tommaso,d'Aquino, Saint,1225-1274,T'ovma,Ak'uinats'i Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,'o Akinatos, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,'o Akinates, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,'o Akuinatos, Saint,1225-1274,Thomas,'o Akuinates, Saint,1225-1274,Tomás,de Aquino, Saint,1225-1274,Aquin, Thomas von,1225-1274,Aquino, Thomas von,1225-1274,Тома,Аквінський, Saint,1225-1274,Pתומאס אקווינאס,1225-1274,Pתומס אקווינס,1225-1274,اكويني ، توما,1225-1274 , Körperliche Behinderung , Erbsündenlehre,Peccatum originale,Ursünde , Bestrafung,Strafen