Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 92 No. 1, 2022.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.92.1.6
Disability as a Concept and Experience. A Theological Perspective in a Contemporary Reflection
Martina Vuk
orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-3864
; Interdisciplinary Institue of Ethics and Human Rights University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Abstract
In recent times, we have witnessed a great interest in and advocacy for understanding disability and including persons with disability in wider areas of social life. However, many positive examples of social activity and care within pastoral theology are insufficient for a systematic and structural understanding of disability. Thus, open, epistemological, and constructive dialogue between the theology of disability and disability studies is needed. In the article, the author points out the need to integrate disability studies into the academic area of Christian theology with the aim to deepen the conceptual reflection on disability and widen the frame of theological interest in disability. Apart from giving an overview of past and contemporary approaches to disability in both, contemporary social-cultural reality and within Christian theology and pastoral practice, the final aim of this approach is to point out the correctness of the conceptual and theoretical understanding and application of knowledge on disability. This will be achieved through setting correct terminology and social-cultural perception in relation to disability in the first part. In the second part of the article, the aim is to emphasize the importance of the theology of disability as a special branch of theology, while the third part offers a theological understanding of disability and, thereby, opens the way for a more correct theological definition of disability.
Keywords
theological anthropology; inclusion; history of disability; disability studies; theology of disability.
Hrčak ID:
280876
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Publication date:
22.7.2022.
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