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“it means that, for Augustine, every human falls short of the norm. No human can claim to be complete, wholly healthy. At best we see intimations of the perfect human spread through the best of humanity’s diverse traits.”
― Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader
― Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader
“Concerning monsters [monstra] which are born and live, however quickly they die, neither is resurrection to be denied them, nor is it to be believed that they will rise again as they are, but rather with an amended and perfected body. . . . And so all other births which, as having some excess or some defect or because of some conspicuous deformity [deformitate], are called monsters, will be brought again at the resurrection to the true form of human nature [humanae naturae figuram]” (The Enchiridion, 87). His”
― Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader
― Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader
