Volume 33, Issue 1/2, 2021
Madeline Jarrett

Pages 139-157
https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2022107144
Bodies of Hope
Temporality, Disability, and the God of Uncontrollable Mystery
Hope for persons with disabilities is most often associated with the possibility of cure. When cure is not achievable, there remains a dire lack in our socio-cultural imagination around and construction of hopeful disabled futurity. This paper explores Karl Rahner¡¯s eschatology as a means of both deconstructing narrow visions of curative hope and affirming the presence of theological hope that already exists in the lives of disabled people. Ultimately, this paper argues that ¡°crip time¡±¡ªthe time embodied by persons with disabilities¡ªwitnesses to a prophetic relationship with time in its openness to the life-giving possibilities of the absolute future.