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'Us' not 'Them': Disability and Catholic Theology and Social Teaching
Contributor(s): Glyn, Justin (Author), Brady, Terry (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 0648372707     ISBN-13: 9780648372707
Publisher: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
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Published: June 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Series: Catholic Social Justice
Physical Information: 0.05" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" L (0.09 lbs) 26 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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This paper offers an invitation to dialogue about disability by firstly listening to a person living with disability. Justin Glyn SJ shares his experience of physical impairment and explains how it is the interaction of impairment with the social and physical environment that produces disability. Disability is socially constructed; it is the result of structures of sin. It follows that we can respond by trying to build social and physical strucutres that might better mediate grace, facilitating life to the full for all of us.

Responding to disability is not just a secular matter for the state - although laws and policies are needed. Nor is it merely a matter of pastoral practice for the Church. The reality of disability has implications for our theology, which has not always been informed by the experience of people with disability.

Justin's reflections challenge us to examine our own implicit theologies of disability, and they suggest a theology of disability that more effectively honours the personhood of people living with disability. He observes that impairment highlights the fact that we are made for communion with God and each other - our weaknesses and limitations supplement each other's. We all have limitations; there is no 'us' and 'them'.


Contributor Bio(s): Glyn, Justin: - Justin Glyn SJ is a blind Jesuit priest and Australian lawyer currently lecturing in canon law at Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, and is General Counsel to the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus. He grew up in South Africa and practised law there and in New Zealand, obtaining a PhD in internationals law and refugee law at Auckland University in 2008 before joining the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). After ordination in 2016 he spent two years at St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada, where he obtained a licentiate in canon law. Aside from issues of law (especially involving refugees, people with disabilities and others who often find themselves marginalised), Justin has a keen interest in languages and music and enjoys singing in choirs. He has written frequently for general and specialist publications in Australia on issues of international law and politics (especially in areas concerning civil liberties) and canon law as well as occasional articles on theology and spirituality. He lives and works in Melbourne.Brady, Terry: - Bishop Terry Brady is the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Delegate for Social Justice and a member of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council. He is an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
 
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