Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Disability and the quest for the human / Brian Brock --The patristic era : early Christian attitudes toward the disfigured outcast / Almut Caspary --Augustine's hierarchies of human wholeness and their healing / Brian Brock --Aquinas on the corporis infirmitas : broken flesh and the grammar of grace / Miguel J. Romero --A ravishing the restful sight : seeing with Julian of Norwich / Amy Laura Hall --The human condition as seen from the cross : Luther and disability / Stefan Heuser --John Calvin and disability / Deborah Beth Creamer --To develop relational autonomy : on Hegel's view of people with disabilities / Martin Wendte --Between necessity and possibility : Kierkegaard and the abilities and disabilities of subjectivity / Christopher Craig Brittain --People are born from people : Willem Van den Bergh on mentally disabled people / Marjolein de Mooij --"My strength is made perfect in weakness" : Bonhoeffer and the war over disabled life / Bernd Wannenwetsch --This ability : Barth on the concrete freedom of human life / Donald Wood --Women, disabled / Jana Bennett --Being with the disabled : Jean Vanier's theological realism / Hans S. Reinders --The importance of being a creature : Stanley Hauerwas on disability / John Swinton.