The embodied Deaf God: a God just like us
The body, whether understood positively or negatively, has always been a part of Christian thinking and practice. However, the body has often been viewed as a 'prison' from which humans should seek to escape. In this paper, I suggest that, despite dominant theological discourses that have...
| Published in: | Practical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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| In: |
Practical theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B Spirituality B deaf theology B Survival B embodied theology |
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| Summary: | The body, whether understood positively or negatively, has always been a part of Christian thinking and practice. However, the body has often been viewed as a 'prison' from which humans should seek to escape. In this paper, I suggest that, despite dominant theological discourses that have sought to negate the human body - and especially bodies that do not conform to certain norms - we find in the Christian tradition extra-ordinary theologies and spiritualities of survival and resistance expressed through the body. Deaf perspectives on God provide one example of this. By giving attention to the ways in which Deaf people imagine God as embodied, I argue that we can imagine ourselves as just like God - concretely in God's image in our embodied condition, and that in this discovery, we can learn to affirm our embodied states in all their diversity. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2019.1606520 |