ABSTRACT
This chapter explores medieval accounts of the resurrected body – in particular, its capacity for motion and sensation – and reads these accounts from a disability-theoretic perspective. It shows that certain normative views of the body made on the basis of ableist presuppositions are alien to at least some traditional theological reasoning about the resurrected body. In particular, mobility was not taken to require limbs, and certain kinds of sensation were held to be alien to the resurrected body – either superfluous or actively harmful to it. The chapter defends medieval theologians against the charge that their speculations neglect the materiality or physicality of the body.
