Reading Bodies from Hidden Places: Reflections on Disability in the Christian Tradition

Abstract

This article reflects on Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader (2012), noting its groundbreaking contribution to the study of bodies in the Christian tradition. This article considers the problem of historiography illumined by this text and the absence of colonialism as an aspect of periodization and post-colonial thought as a lens through which to analyze disability.

KEYWORDS:

• Brian Brock
• John Swinton
• disability
• colonialism
• slavery
• Whiteness