Disability Theology: What I’m Learning

A Field We Always Needed.

Disability theology is an established field of academic theology. It has major scholars, landmark texts, and a growing body of work that intersects with liberation theology, pastoral care, bioethics, and biblical studies. It has been active for over thirty years.

The field has a central commitment that distinguishes it from most theology written about disability: it speaks from within disabled experience, not about it from the outside. That distinction matters. These are not able-bodied theologians speculating about what disabled people need. These are disabled scholars and their close collaborators doing theology from the ground up.

Let me introduce you to some of them.