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Breaking, not Broken: Ableism and the Church after Constantine


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How have inherited and contemporary notions of perfection distorted our theology and the way in which we have expressed and lived out our faith?

Breaking, not Broken exposes how Western Christianity, post-Constantine, assimilated a Greco-Roman ideal of the flawless body as its anthropology and built its theology, architecture, and memory around it. Against this ableist inheritance, Timothy Goode offers a radical alternative: a return to a risen body anthropology grounded in the wounded yet glorified body of Christ. Drawing deeply on disability and liberation theology, critical heritage studies, and his own lived experience of disability, Timothy Goode reframes how the Church understands the body, healing, time and space. Here, disabled lives are not marginal but central: living archives of God’s story, prophetic voices that disrupt and renew, and bearers of hope for a more just ecclesiology. Written with theological depth and human honesty, this book bridges scholarship and practice, inviting the Church to rediscover its true heritage not in monuments of stone or ideals of perfection, but in the scars of resurrection and the grace of embodied diversity.



Table of Contents:
Foreword by Archbishop Steven Cottrell Acknowledgements Introduction: Reclaiming the Sacred Image – Ableism, Heritage and the Re-membering of the Church 1 Framing the Argument 2 Christianity as Virus: A Theological Metaphor of Contagion and Contestation 3 Scripture and the Pursuit of Perfection 4 God with a Body Like Mine? Anthropomorphism, Ableism and the Disabled Reader of Scripture 5 Theoretical Frameworks: Theology, Ableism and Heritage 6 The Legacy of Exclusion: Ableism in Sacred Heritage Spaces 7 Sacred Space and Theological Vision: How Theology Shapes the Design and Layout of Our Sacred Buildings 8 Power, Priesthood and the Performance of the Ideal: Ableism in the Liturgies of Empire and Ecclesial Authority 9 Embodied Heritage: Disabled Bodies as Living Archives 10 Breath Disrupted: Pneumatology, Normativity and the Spirit of the Risen Body 11 Cracked Chalices, Overflowing Grace: Disability, Sacrament and the Neurodivergent Body of Christ 12 Wounds That Remain: Eschatology, Narrative Bodies and the Kingdom of the Risen Flesh 13 Heritage as Contestation: Crip Interventions and the Reconfiguration of Sacred Memory 14 The Disruptive Grace of Disabled Witness 15 Toward a Crip Ecclesiology and Heritage Practice 16 Re-membering the Body Postscript: Other Wounds, Same Body: Gender, Sexuality, Race, Identity and Class in the Shadow of Ideal Flesh A Final Blessing: For Those who Would Re-member the Body Index of Bible References Index of Names and Subjects

About the Author :
Revd Canon Timothy Goode is Canon for Congregational Discipleship and Nurture at York Minster, a national disability advocate and a leading voice on equity, diversity and inclusion in the Church. He has served parishes in London and the South East, advised the Archbishops on disability and writes and speaks widely on theology, heritage and justice.

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Breaking, not Broken issues a strong and at times uncomfortable challenge, shining a light on an important area of our shared life that we should not ignore. Tim Goode is opening up a long overdue conversation and inviting us into deeper understanding. This is a book born of pain but full of hope for the possibility of transformation, not just for disabled people but for the whole church.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780334063162
  • Publisher: SCM Press
  • Publisher Imprint: SCM Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0334063167
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Ableism and the Church after Constantine


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