Title | Wesley's Disabling Fall |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Hall, K |
Journal Title | Journal of Religion, Disability & Health |
Volume | 15 |
Pages | 197–209 |
ISSN | 1522-8967 |
Abstract | John Wesley attempts to inhabit a liberating space that understands bodily limitation not as the result of an individual's sins but as a fact of finitude. Concurrently, Wesley ultimately constructs the able-body as the norm. This construction leads Wesley on a problematic search of theology for the cause of bodily limitation, for which Wesley defaults to the Fall as the explanation. Thus, while bodily limitation is not a result of the individual's sins, bodily limitation is the result of the first sin, and—vis-à-vis Foucault—people with bodily limitation are embodied signifiers of the fallen state of humanity. |
URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228967.2011.565683 |
DOI | 10.1080/15228967.2011.565683 |
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