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Disability Theology and Eschatology

Hope, Justice, and Flourishing

Edited by Preston McDaniel Hill and Aaron Brian Davis - Contributions by Harvey Cawdron; Jessica Coblentz; Aaron Brian Davis; Derek Estes; Preston McDaniel Hill; Erin L. Raffety; Eleonore Stump; Maja Whitaker; Emma Worrall and Samuel J. Youngs

Christian theology looks forward to a consummation of all things in which hope, justice, and flourishing will finally prevail. All creation will be perfectly united to God as its Creator, and all shall be well. But what does this mean for disabled people? The typical Christian answer through history has been that disability will not exist in the world to come. The advent of disability theology has given us reasons to doubt this answer. In response, Disability Theology and Eschatology: Hope, Justice, and Flourishing gathers together essays from established and emerging scholars alike to provide an extensive look at what it might mean to imagine disability as a part of humanity’s ultimate ends. The volume advances conversations in disability theology through rigorously creative work, including on the much neglected topic of psychiatric disability. Contributors ask and answer questions like “how can one’s well-being be high if they are disabled?,” “do Thomists have to be ableists?,” “how do our beauty standards limit our eschatological thinking?,” “what does dissociative identity disorder mean for the afterlife?,” and more.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 254 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66695-435-7 • Hardback • March 2025 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-66695-436-4 • eBook • July 2099 • $50.00 • (£38.00) (coming soon)
Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic, Social Science / People with Disabilities, Philosophy / Religious

Preston Hill is assistant professor of integrative theology at Richmont Graduate University, where he is the Co-Chair of Integration and serves as Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program.

Aaron Brian Davis is fellowship engagement director and theologian-in-residence at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in Arden, North Carolina (US).

Introduction: Disability Theology and Eschatology, Aaron Brian Davis and Preston Hill

Part I: Disability in the Resurrection

Chapter 1: A Theory of Well-Being for Disability Theology, Aaron Brian Davis

Chapter 2: For the Beauty of Glory: Aquinas, Disability and Resurrection, Derek Estes

Chapter 3: Disability, Life After Death, and the True Self, Eleonore Stump

Chapter 4: Beautiful Bodies: Disgust, Diverse Embodiment, and Redeemed Perception in the Eschaton, Maja Whitaker

Part II: Psychiatric Disabilities

Chapter 5: Yo-Yo Hope, “Symptom Talk,” and the Courage Not to be Well: A Practical Theology of Chronic Illness, Long Covid, and Hope, Erin L. Raffety and Emma Worrall

Chapter 6: On the Afterlife of Saint Dymphna: A Reflection on the Interplay of Psychiatric Disability and the Communion of the Saints, Jessica Coblentz

Chapter 7: “Ask, Wish, and Believe Through Another”: Dissociative Identity Disorder and a Renewed Doctrine of Fides Aliena, Samuel J. Youngs

Chapter 8: Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Eschaton: Community, Integration, and Life After Death, Harvey Cawdron

The question of resurrected life has bulked large in recent debates in disability theology. The authors in this extremely rich volume push the cutting edge of that debate a big step forward by asking not only how Christians should think about the resurrected life for those with physical and intellectual disabilities, but also of those with mental illness, whose conditions are very much part of their identity. A landmark work drawing together some of the most important voices in the debate today.


— Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen


Disability Theology and Eschatology

Hope, Justice, and Flourishing

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Summary
Summary
  • Christian theology looks forward to a consummation of all things in which hope, justice, and flourishing will finally prevail. All creation will be perfectly united to God as its Creator, and all shall be well. But what does this mean for disabled people? The typical Christian answer through history has been that disability will not exist in the world to come. The advent of disability theology has given us reasons to doubt this answer. In response, Disability Theology and Eschatology: Hope, Justice, and Flourishing gathers together essays from established and emerging scholars alike to provide an extensive look at what it might mean to imagine disability as a part of humanity’s ultimate ends. The volume advances conversations in disability theology through rigorously creative work, including on the much neglected topic of psychiatric disability. Contributors ask and answer questions like “how can one’s well-being be high if they are disabled?,” “do Thomists have to be ableists?,” “how do our beauty standards limit our eschatological thinking?,” “what does dissociative identity disorder mean for the afterlife?,” and more.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 254 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-1-66695-435-7 • Hardback • March 2025 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
    978-1-66695-436-4 • eBook • July 2099 • $50.00 • (£38.00) (coming soon)
    Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic, Social Science / People with Disabilities, Philosophy / Religious
Author
Author
  • Preston Hill is assistant professor of integrative theology at Richmont Graduate University, where he is the Co-Chair of Integration and serves as Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program.

    Aaron Brian Davis is fellowship engagement director and theologian-in-residence at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in Arden, North Carolina (US).

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Disability Theology and Eschatology, Aaron Brian Davis and Preston Hill

    Part I: Disability in the Resurrection

    Chapter 1: A Theory of Well-Being for Disability Theology, Aaron Brian Davis

    Chapter 2: For the Beauty of Glory: Aquinas, Disability and Resurrection, Derek Estes

    Chapter 3: Disability, Life After Death, and the True Self, Eleonore Stump

    Chapter 4: Beautiful Bodies: Disgust, Diverse Embodiment, and Redeemed Perception in the Eschaton, Maja Whitaker

    Part II: Psychiatric Disabilities

    Chapter 5: Yo-Yo Hope, “Symptom Talk,” and the Courage Not to be Well: A Practical Theology of Chronic Illness, Long Covid, and Hope, Erin L. Raffety and Emma Worrall

    Chapter 6: On the Afterlife of Saint Dymphna: A Reflection on the Interplay of Psychiatric Disability and the Communion of the Saints, Jessica Coblentz

    Chapter 7: “Ask, Wish, and Believe Through Another”: Dissociative Identity Disorder and a Renewed Doctrine of Fides Aliena, Samuel J. Youngs

    Chapter 8: Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Eschaton: Community, Integration, and Life After Death, Harvey Cawdron

Reviews
Reviews
  • The question of resurrected life has bulked large in recent debates in disability theology. The authors in this extremely rich volume push the cutting edge of that debate a big step forward by asking not only how Christians should think about the resurrected life for those with physical and intellectual disabilities, but also of those with mental illness, whose conditions are very much part of their identity. A landmark work drawing together some of the most important voices in the debate today.


    — Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen


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