Regards cilantro. My DNA profile says I am supposed to dislike it. It's supposed to taste like soap. I really can't tell. Mrs Gramps loves it. She will put it in everything if she could.
I am finding this fascinating. I wrote my MA dissertation on working towards a liberation theology for disability, based partly on Eisland's book, but taking it a step further to describe Jesus as a self-disabling of the Godhead. This helps to include a larger variety of disability than the simple physical which occurs during the crucifixion.
If we view the Godhead as being all powerful and all knowing as well as unbounded by time, then becoming a human being, with limitations of power, knowledge and having to live one day at a time, with an end date, is a profound disability. It encompasses both physical and intellectual disabilities.
To view the Godhead as willingly taking on this self-disablement, and doing it from a place of love, for me, changes the way I way I view disability. All humanity is sacred as all humanity is in the image of God, regardless of any disability that some people would view as othering.
Full disclosure - I am not, currently, disabled myself, however at 65 that may change. I do however have three children on the autistic spectrum, with varying degrees of problems. My youngest is non-verbal, unable to care for himself and has epilepsy, whereas my oldest has two degrees and works as an occupational therapist, the middling is middling, that is he lives independantly and works in a nursing home.
I am finding this fascinating. I wrote my MA dissertation on working towards a liberation theology for disability, based partly on Eisland's book, but taking it a step further to describe Jesus as a self-disabling of the Godhead. This helps to include a larger variety of disability than the simple physical which occurs during the crucifixion.
If we view the Godhead as being all powerful and all knowing as well as unbounded by time, then becoming a human being, with limitations of power, knowledge and having to live one day at a time, with an end date, is a profound disability. It encompasses both physical and intellectual disabilities.
To view the Godhead as willingly taking on this self-disablement, and doing it from a place of love, for me, changes the way I way I view disability. All humanity is sacred as all humanity is in the image of God, regardless of any disability that some people would view as othering.
Full disclosure - I am not, currently, disabled myself, however at 65 that may change. I do however have three children on the autistic spectrum, with varying degrees of problems. My youngest is non-verbal, unable to care for himself and has epilepsy, whereas my oldest has two degrees and works as an occupational therapist, the middling is middling, that is he lives independantly and works in a nursing home.
I think my dad has a decade on you, I'm an oldest and kinda relate to your middling.
tessaB1, I like your post, it's an interesting contribution to the question of omnipotence vs., failure. Well, not exactly failure, but less. Its a huge topic.
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There's a kind of harmony in that, I think. Condolences on the loss.
If we view the Godhead as being all powerful and all knowing as well as unbounded by time, then becoming a human being, with limitations of power, knowledge and having to live one day at a time, with an end date, is a profound disability. It encompasses both physical and intellectual disabilities.
To view the Godhead as willingly taking on this self-disablement, and doing it from a place of love, for me, changes the way I way I view disability. All humanity is sacred as all humanity is in the image of God, regardless of any disability that some people would view as othering.
Full disclosure - I am not, currently, disabled myself, however at 65 that may change. I do however have three children on the autistic spectrum, with varying degrees of problems. My youngest is non-verbal, unable to care for himself and has epilepsy, whereas my oldest has two degrees and works as an occupational therapist, the middling is middling, that is he lives independantly and works in a nursing home.
I think my dad has a decade on you, I'm an oldest and kinda relate to your middling.
And yeah, I think that's spot-on. Well said.