Beauty from brokenness: Witness and wonder as God works through all bodies
This article draws on personal narrative and art along with disability and the Bible to challenge who is able to witness. Disability creates barriers in how people imagine witness to God taking place. Personal narrative paints a picture of this reality. Yet the gospel flips expectations with ultimat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Missiology
Year: 2024, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 380-394 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament NCC Social ethics RA Practical theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Disability
B Beauty B Christian Mission B 2 Corinthians B Christian witness B Weakness B disability theology B Species |
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| Summary: | This article draws on personal narrative and art along with disability and the Bible to challenge who is able to witness. Disability creates barriers in how people imagine witness to God taking place. Personal narrative paints a picture of this reality. Yet the gospel flips expectations with ultimate beauty as Jesus on the cross. Accordingly, a damaged body points to God working through brokenness to bring blessing. In light of frailty, brokenness, and troubles in this world, this article intersects art, disability and Christian mission to demonstrate how art subverts norms of human strength, and highlights how beauty flows through brokenness. With Paul’s weakness language in 2 Corinthians, disability becomes the showplace for God’s glory. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00918296241269636 |