can jesus sign?

[perdrix]

I've been looking through the Cambridge library catalogue to see what books there are on Liberation Theology - because I owe Jo a reading list, and because I am dying to get back into it myself.

I came across the title Deaf Liberation Theology (Hannah Lewis is the author if anyone's interested) and looked at it out of idle curiosity. This was the

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[cosmic_elephant]

Of course he can! Just like Santa in "Miracle on 34th Street"!

[countess_rezia]

Gosh, I hadn't thought about it either. Though my instictive reaction is 'Of course He can'

What about deaf priests - or priests with any disability? There must be a similar feeling, a similar argument regarding this as per female priests, maybe? (So the preist represents Jesus, but it doesn't matter if they are female/disabled when Jesus happened to be male/able-bodied)

[perdrix]

I'd tend to agree with your instinctive reaction. The reason why I brought up the topic, though, is because it began to shape a debate I hadn't thought about. And my tentative conception of the debate is this