Abstract
This chapter explores some of the justice concerns raised by attention to disability, and demonstrates parallels between this lens and the commitments of various liberation theologies. It explores barriers of architecture and attitude that limit access to religious participation by people with disabilities. It argues that it is essential that we look not only at institutional and individual discrimination, but also at the religious values, ideas, and images that permeate societal webs of meaning. Three existing proposals for a liberation theology of disability are described: the Accessible God, proposed by Jennie Weiss Block; the Interdependent God, proposed by Kathy Black; and the Disabled God, proposed by Nancy Eiesland. As with other liberation theologies, they each propose a preferential option for the marginalized, imaging God in ways that show God's commitments to access, inclusion, and justice.
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