Bill, we got a note from Dr. Aaron Brian Davis, who is Fellowship Engagement Director

and Theologian in Residence at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in Arden, North Carolina.

As an academic, he works mainly on topics in systematic and philosophical theology, as well as ethics,

and he's written a review of your book, Reasonable Faith, and has invited you to take a look at his

review, so we're going to do that.

I want to chase one quick rabbit before we go to the article, Bill, from Dr. Davis's bio.

He's also an editor and contributor to the book, Disability Theology and Eschatology,

Hope, Justice, and Flourishing. Here's a quick description of the book.

Christian theology looks forward to a consummation of all things in which hope, justice, and

flourishing will finally prevail. All creation will be perfectly united to God as its creator and all shall be well.

But what does this mean for disabled people?

The typical Christian answer, through history, has been that disability will not exist in the world to come.

The advent of disability theology has given us reasons to doubt this answer.

In response, disability theology and eschatology gathers together essays from established and emerging scholars alike to provide an extensive look at what it might mean to imagine disability as a part of humanity's

ultimate ends."

End of quote.

Now, Bill, I haven't read the book, so I don't know what the contributors' arguments

are.

But my first reaction is that indeed, disabilities or physical handicaps will not be in the

new heaven and the new earth. Any thoughts on disability theology? I have to confess, Kevin,

that I've never heard of this before. It's extraordinary. To me, at first blush, it sounds

incompatible with the resurrection body, which Paul describes

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