RT Article
T1 Duns Scotus on Disability: Teleology, Divine Willing, and Pure Nature
JF Theological studies
VO 78
IS 1
SP 72
OP 95
A1 Cross, Richard 1964-
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1559762179
AB According to the so-called “religio-ethical” model of disability accepted in some sense by Aquinas, disability is fundamentally a punishment for wrongdoing. Duns Scotus rejects this view and holds that disability could simply have been part of God’s plan, and that its presence could have been explained simply by virtue of God’s finding beauty in some of the bodily configurations of the disabled. I conclude by showing how Scotus’s view relates to the so-called “social” model of disability.
DO 10.1177/0040563916682324