Bodies of Hope: Temporality, Disability, and the God of Uncontrollable Mystery
Hope for persons with disabilities is most often associated with the possibility of cure. When cure is not achievable, there remains a dire lack in our socio-cultural imagination around and construction of hopeful disabled futurity. This paper explores Karl Rahner's eschatology as a means of bo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Philosophy & theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 33, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 139-157 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rahner, Karl 1904-1984
/ Handicap
/ Hope
/ Time
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology |
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| Summary: | Hope for persons with disabilities is most often associated with the possibility of cure. When cure is not achievable, there remains a dire lack in our socio-cultural imagination around and construction of hopeful disabled futurity. This paper explores Karl Rahner's eschatology as a means of both deconstructing narrow visions of curative hope and affirming the presence of theological hope that already exists in the lives of disabled people. Ultimately, this paper argues that "crip time" - the time embodied by persons with disabilities - witnesses to a prophetic relationship with time in its openness to the life-giving possibilities of the absolute future. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-828X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2022107144 |
