Disability Theology in a Missional Context (original) (raw)

In this essay I will be assessing the contribution of the Old Testament to a positive description of disability today. I will approach this by examining current attitudes today towards people with disabilities (PWD). I will outline some of the positive and negative attitudes found in the Old Testament and then focus in on the Levitical practices through Melcher’s use of signs and then apply this to a more positive area of the Old Testament in Ecclesiastes. I will then seek to compare the two using Raster’s Anthropic Zones. These will be held in tension to provide a more positive description of disability from the Old Testament.