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...

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Main Author: Cross, Richard 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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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
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