Nancy Eiesland

Nancy Eiesland (April 6, 1964 March 10, 2009) was a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.[1][2]

Eiesland, born with a congenital bone defect, underwent numerous operations in her youth and experienced considerable pain as well as disability. These factors informed her theological perspective that God is disabled, culminating in her publication of The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability (1994) (find the German version of this text here.

Eiesland died of lung cancer at age 44.

References

  1. Martin, Douglas (March 21, 2009). "Nancy Eiesland Is Dead at 44; Wrote of a Disabled God". The New York Times. Retrieved March 22, 2009.
  2. "Obituaries: Nancy Eiesland, Theologian and sociologist who wrote of a disabled God". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. 2009-04-10. Retrieved 5 July 2009.

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