Ep51. Wondrously Wounded: theology, disability, & the body of Christ, Brian Brock

2020-04-21

I sat down with Brian Brock to talk about his book Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ (Baylor University Press, 2019). We discuss his motivation for writing the book, what it was like to try and ‘witness to the witness’ of his son, reclaiming wonder, pre-natal screening and how liberal societies establish norms, the need to be rescued from seeing ourselves as ‘abled’, where the doctrine of sin fits in a theology of disability, the body of Christ as a circulator of divine gifts, and going b...

I sat down with Brian Brock to talk about his book Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ (Baylor University Press, 2019). We discuss his motivation for writing the book, what it was like to try and ‘witness to the witness’ of his son, reclaiming wonder, pre-natal screening and how liberal societies establish norms, the need to be rescued from seeing ourselves as ‘abled’, where the doctrine of sin fits in a theology of disability, the body of Christ as a circulator of divine gifts, and going beyond charity and inclusion.

Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology, Department of Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. His works include Christian Ethics in a Technological Age; Captive to Christ, Open to the World; and, edited with John Swinton, Disability and the Christian Tradition: A Reader.

“Redemption is learning to receive the wonder of life, hearing the particular call that comes to each one in love”

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