How have inherited and contemporary notions of perfection distorted
our theology and the way in which we have expressed and lived out our
faith? Breaking, not Broken exposes how Western Christianity,
post-Constantine, assimilated a Greco-Roman ideal of the flawless body
as its anthropology and built its theology, architecture, and memory
around it. Against this ableist inheritance, Timothy Goode offers a
radical alternative: a return to a risen body anthropology grounded in
the wounded yet glorified body of Christ. Drawing deeply on disability
and liberation theology, critical heritage studies, and his own lived
experience of disability, Timothy Goode reframes how the Church
understands the body, healing, time and space. Here, disabled lives
are not marginal but central: living archives of God’s story,
prophetic voices that disrupt and renew, and bearers of hope for a
more just ecclesiology. Written with theological depth and human
honesty, this book bridges scholarship and practice, inviting the
Church to rediscover its true heritage not in monuments of stone or
ideals of perfection, but in the scars of resurrection and the grace
of embodied diversity.
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Ableism and the Church after Constantine
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780334063186
Publisert
2026
Utgiver
Hymns Ancient & Modern LTD
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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