Theology on Disability: A Disabled Theology

Christian theology needs to recognize its own endemic disability. In the footsteps of the prophets and of Christ himself, the Word of Life, who was made radically powerless, theologians will be able to speak more adequately about God if they integrate in their thinking the experience of dependence and radical injustice which disability carries with it. In ecclesiastical life, hosting the disabled or persons who are dependant, pushes one to discover another way of expressing God, closer to the mystery of the Cross. And from a moral standpoint, it is a way of reconsidering the notion of norms and normality. Through Christ, human vulnerability takes on another meaning.