ABSTRACT
This chapter is an extension of an earlier article, “Defiant Afterlife—Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God.” My primary aim there was to push back against a common theological view which holds, even if unreflectively or uncritically, that union with God in the afterlife requires that individuals with disabilities will have those disabilities ‘cured’ or ‘healed’ prior to heavenly union with God. To this end, I developed an argument for the possibility of redeemed individuals retaining their disabilities in the eschaton (i.e., in beatitude) and nevertheless enjoying complete union with God (and through God to others). In the present paper, I show not just that it is possible for there to be disability in heaven, but that there are considerations in favor of ‘disabled beatitude.’
