Embodying Compassion: Disability Sport and the Mercy of God
The author offers a robustly theological account of compassion, highlighting its bodily nature. Divine mercy is presented as being conveyed through human bodies to remake and enliven both the human agent and recipient. Culminating in a story of a physically and mentally impaired runner, this account...
| Published in: | Journal of disability & religion |
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| Subtitles: | Theology, Disability and Sport : Reflections on Physical and Intellectual Impairment and Well-Being |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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Journal of disability & religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-188 |
| Further subjects: | B
Special Olympics
B Intellectual disability B mutual aid B Scripture B blind runner B Impairment B Compassion B Mercy B Moral Theology B physical disability |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The author offers a robustly theological account of compassion, highlighting its bodily nature. Divine mercy is presented as being conveyed through human bodies to remake and enliven both the human agent and recipient. Culminating in a story of a physically and mentally impaired runner, this account of mercy and compassion fleshes out God's mercy, which can be understood as flowing through human bodies in the context of sporting activities. A challenge is thus levied at modern secularized accounts of compassion and mercy, as well as many of the dominant values in contemporary sport - flawless athletic beauty, agonistic competition, and financial success - which have rendered simple acts of intercompetitive compassion and mercy nearly unintelligible. |
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| ISSN: | 2331-253X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of disability & religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2017.1307157 |