This article draws on the author’s experience of spinal cord injury to reflect on theological method and central elements of Christian theology. It uses disability theory to unmask the ablest ideology that too often frames church hierarchies and that marginalizes and excludes people with disability and others who are different, notably LGBTQI people of faith. From this perspective, it provides a critical reading of the traditional threefold Christian gospel of perfect creation, fall, and redemption as renewed perfection, arguing that vulnerability, pain, and disability are not a consequence of the fall, but the product of the creative generativity of nature. It tentatively reimagines atonement theory and redemption as a reversal of unjust marginalization (transformative grace for those who experience and perpetrate evil). Finally it considers the transformation of the soul by reference to a disability aesthetic and the truth, goodness, and beauty of God and the diverse creation. It elevates disability as beautiful and desirable, a creative gift of infinite difference.

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当我把轮椅推到门外时，基督教神学陷入瘫痪

本文借鉴作者脊髓损伤的经验，反思基督教神学的神学方法和核心要素。它使用残疾理论来揭露最有能力的意识形态，这种意识形态经常构成教会等级制度，边缘化和排斥残疾人和其他不同的人，特别是有信仰的 LGBTQI 人。从这个角度来看，它提供了对完美创造、堕落和救赎作为更新的完美的传统基督教三重福音的批判性解读，认为脆弱、痛苦和残疾不是堕落的结果，而是创造性生成的产物。自然。它试探性地将赎罪理论和救赎重新想象为对不公正边缘化的逆转（对那些经历和犯罪的人的改造恩典）。最后，它通过参考残疾美学和上帝的真善美和多样化的创造来考虑灵魂的转变。它将残疾提升为美丽和可取的，是一种具有无限差异的创造性礼物。