The Disabled God Revisited: Trinity, Christology, and Liberation [Paperback]

Lisa D. Powell strengthens and amplifies the claim that God is disabled, made by Nancy Eiesland in her ground breaking bookThe Disabled God(1994). She offers an alternative understanding of the doctrine of God and the Trinity, resulting in a God who is not autonomous and utterly independent. According to this view, God's triune identity is established in God's decision for covenant, and thus creation is a requirement for the fulfillment of God's nature - not only is the Son always anticipating full embodiment and human nature, but more specifically is eternally anticipating an impaired body. Powell argues that God is not only interdependent within the immanent Trinity, but God experiences real dependency, risk and vulnerability from God's original self-determination.

Powell revisits Eiesland's claim about Christ's resurrected body and her conclusions about eschatological embodiment, arguing that it is the able-body that does not persist eschatologically, but all humanity journeys toward ever more transparency, vulnerability and interdependency as the Body of Christ.

This book will be of interest not only to disability theologians, but also to those engaged in debates in trinitarian theology and theological anthropology. The brevity and clarity with which it is written make the book accessible to undergraduate students and refreshing to more advanced readers as well.The Disabled God Revisitedis a thought-provoking and welcome addition to the growing literature on disability in Christian systematic theology. Journal of Moral Theology

Nancy Eiesland'sDisabled Godhas shaped several generations of disability theologians, despite leaving some important theological questions unasked. Gathering together various criticisms in an extremely helpful way, Lisa D. Powell constructively and sympathetically extendslÃ#