Curative Eschatology in advance
Christian Ableism and Religious Cripistemology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22250554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua St Pierre (0000-0003-3853-5804, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Philosophy of Disability (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2690-3326 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/jpd2024112027 |
| OpenAlex | W4404604834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Mobilizing a “cripistemological” approach that “think[s] from the critical, social, and personal position of disability,” (Johnson and McRuer 2014, 134), this paper engages a fundamental site of Christian ableism: the expected cure of disability in the afterlife. I offer the term “curative eschatology” to describe the visceral attachment to the belief that bodies and minds will be remade without disability, madness, or illness in the eschatological (final) future. Examining the affective charge in the promise of a perfect and final Other World, I argue that curative eschatology shapes present-day religious thought and practice by circulating preconscious affects like dread and resentment against conditions of existence that necessitate pain and suffering. The paper concludes by gesturing towards a Crip nontheistic religious practice that nurtures “belief in this world” and affirms a world of becoming and the tragic view of life it entails
Eschatology · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |