Nancy Eiesland

Nancy Eiesland (April 6, 1964 – March 10, 2009) was a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.[1][2]

Eiesland, born with a congenital bone defect, underwent numerous operations in her youth and experienced considerable pain as well as disability. These factors informed her theological perspective that God is disabled, culminating in her publication of The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability (1994). A German translation of this book was published in 2018: Nancy L. Eiesland, Der behinderte Gott. Anstöße zu einer Befreiungstheologie der Behinderung. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Werner Schüßler, Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 2018, 2nd ed. 2020.

Eiesland died of lung cancer at age 44.

References

1. Martin, Douglas (March 21, 2009). "Nancy Eiesland Is Dead at 44; Wrote of a Disabled God". The New York Times. Retrieved March 22, 2009.
2. "Obituaries: Nancy Eiesland, Theologian and sociologist who wrote of a disabled God". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. 2009-04-10. Retrieved 5 July 2009.

Further reading

• "Eiesland, Nancy L. 1964–". Contemporary Authors. 222. Thomson Gale. 2004. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-0-7876-6702-3.
• "Eiesland, Nancy L. 1964–". Dem behinderten Gott begegnen. IN: Der Mensch lebt nicht vom Brot allein : Forum fuer Heil- und Religionspaedagogik, 2001 Muenster: Comenius Institut, Germany. Open Access Link for this publication: https://www.comenius.de/biblioinfothek/open_access_pdfs/Der_Mensch_lebt_nicht_vom_Brot_allein.pdf. External link in |title= (help)