Wesley's Disabling Fall
John Wesley attempts to inhabit a liberating space that understands bodily limitation not as the result of an individual's sins but as a fact of finitude. Concurrently, Wesley ultimately constructs the able-body as the norm. This construction leads Wesley on a problematic search of theology for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2011, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-209 |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodism
B Disability B John Wesley B Embodiment |
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| Summary: | John Wesley attempts to inhabit a liberating space that understands bodily limitation not as the result of an individual's sins but as a fact of finitude. Concurrently, Wesley ultimately constructs the able-body as the norm. This construction leads Wesley on a problematic search of theology for the cause of bodily limitation, for which Wesley defaults to the Fall as the explanation. Thus, while bodily limitation is not a result of the individual's sins, bodily limitation is the result of the first sin, and—vis-à-vis Foucault—people with bodily limitation are embodied signifiers of the fallen state of humanity. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15228967.2011.565683 |