In this remarkable and incisive work, Sharon Betcher analyzes our world and God's embodied presence in the light of her own disability and the insight it affords. She claims disablement as a site of powerful social and religious critique and reflection. With searing honesty, she reveals how our culture, only recently tolerant and supportive of disabled people, still fears them. The presence of disabled persons stands as a rebuke to our images of body and health, to the distorted values of our consumerist culture, and the globalized economy that embodies those values in unjust structures. Yet, Betcher claims, disablement has also revealed powerful alternative understandings of the body and body politic, in Scripture, in the actions of Jesus, in the healing work of the Spirit at work in the world. Brimming with insight, Betcher's work is a revelation and a bracing challenge to all Christians.
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Sharon V. Betcher is Associate Professor of Theology at Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, she has spoken and written extensively about disability and theology.
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A stunning breath of fresh air for Christians, the world and especially those who find themselves "other bodied," including poets, mystics and holy fools! The Rev. Dr. Betcher, speaking from a pastor's heart, but with a scholars bite, has managed to gnaw open the spine (as in Frieda Kahlo's cover art) and reveal the deep wounds of our society which still staggers under the flawed, arrogant notion of perfection being goal and disability somehow being other and surely invisible. If you're ready to join wisdon's song for our time, this is a must read.
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Brilliant,
This review is from: Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Paperback)
This is a brilliant book! It offers deep, critical insights into our commonly accepted ideas about human bodies and their effects on all of us. The book's constructive work on the Spirit and Hope are also unique and enticing. Worth reading more than once.
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Great thoughts, muddled articulation,
This review is from: Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Paperback)
I read this book for a graduate-level theology of the body class. As a person with a disability this book is loaded with good ideas. However, it gets muddled down by over-citation. The introduction alone had over 100 citations. Each citation is relevant, but I would have liked to hear more of Betcher's voice than direct quotes from a plethora of scholars. This book reads like a dissertation run amok. However, if one can weed through all the referential material and academic lingo, it offers a useful analytic for examining disability and religion.
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