Unbalanced Reading: Dis/ability-Critical Approaches to Biblical Healing Narratives Illustrated by Mk 7.31-37
As illustrated by the example of the healing of a deaf man with a speech impediment, in Mk 7.31-37, a comparison of traditional approaches to interpretation with a hermeneutics based on a dis/ability critique raises questions about the ideas of wholeness and visions of healing derived from biblical...
| Published in: | Concilium |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
[2020]
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2020, Issue: 5, Pages: 37-47 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mark
/ Miraculous healing
/ Hermeneutics
/ Handicap
/ Participation
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Deaf men
B Healing B Speech disorders |
| Summary: | As illustrated by the example of the healing of a deaf man with a speech impediment, in Mk 7.31-37, a comparison of traditional approaches to interpretation with a hermeneutics based on a dis/ability critique raises questions about the ideas of wholeness and visions of healing derived from biblical healing narratives. Drawing on so-called Dis/ability Studies produces an approach to interpretation that understands disability as a contingent, socio-cultural or historical construct that is very often created and passed on by forms of literary description. When the context of the biblical texts and that of today's readers are taken into account, in reading New Testament healing stories we find, amazingly, hope in the power of Jesus' miracles to change the world and the realisation that human fragility changes the interpretation of these narratives. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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