Name Nancy Eiesland | Died March 10, 2009 | |
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Books The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, A particular place | ||
Nancy Eiesland (April 6, 1964 – March 10, 2009) was a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Eiesland, born with a congenital bone defect, underwent numerous operations in her youth and experienced considerable pain as well as disability. These factors informed her theological perspective that God is disabled, culminating in her publication of The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability (1994) (find the German version of this text here.
Eiesland died of lung cancer at age 44.
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