In God's Image? – A Book Review

Do people with disabilities belong to God's people? Do they have a role to play in the journey this people are called to undertake? The dense pages of this collective essay—providentially synodal in spirit—open a conversation that must become ever more familiar to our Christian life. A conversation we need if we are to finally address and live these questions. It begins with Justin Glyn's reflection on the absence of a theology of disability, already explored two years ago in La Civiltà Cattolica. Glyn, a Jesuit and a blind man, underscores what is lost when people with disabilities are absent from theological reflection. From his own experience, he observes the deep and often unrecognized sense of separation—that divide between "us" and "them"—which has shaped Christian perception and action toward people with disabilities. He now claims his active condition as a sinner, not merely as someone to be helped. He asserts the same hunger and need for salvation and transformation that marks every Christian journey.