Nancy Eiesland
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Nancy L. Eiesland (April 6, 1964 – March 10, 2009) was a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.{{cite news|title=Nancy Eiesland Is Dead at 44; Wrote of a Disabled God|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=March 21, 2009|accessdate=March 22, 2009|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/22eiesland.html|work=The New York Times}}
{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Nancy Eiesland, Theologian and sociologist who wrote of a disabled God |url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Nancy-Eiesland-Theologian-and-sociologist.5160978.jp|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202060627/http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Nancy-Eiesland-Theologian-and-sociologist.5160978.jp|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 2013|work=The Scotsman |location=Edinburgh |date=April 10, 2009 |accessdate=July 5, 2009 }}
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.
Legacy
In the Fall 2014 Centennial Commemorative Edition of the Candler Connection magazine, Eiesland is posthumously recognized as one of fifty-six Centennial Medalists, and The Disabled God is named among the most significant books written by Candler faculty in its first 100 years.{{Cite web |title=Candler Connection Centennial by Candler School of Theology - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/candlertheology/docs/candler_connection_centennial |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}
In 2015, Candler established the Nancy Eiesland Endowment Lecture series in Eiesland's honor.{{cite news|title=Candler to Present Inaugural Eiesland Lecture on March 25|first=Laurel|last=Hanna|date=February 23, 2015|accessdate=April 22, 2022|url=https://candler.emory.edu/news/releases/2015/02/inaugural-eiesland-lecture-march-25.html|work=Candler School of Theology|location=Atlanta, GA}}
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |title=Contemporary American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader |publisher=AltaMira Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0761991960 |editor-last=Edgell Becker |editor-first=Penny |location=Walnut Creek, CA |editor-last2=Eiesland |editor-first2=Nancy L.}}
- {{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors |volume=222 |year=2004 |publisher=Thomson Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-6702-3 |pages=111–112 |chapter=Eiesland, Nancy L. 1964– }}{{Verify source|date=April 2022}}
- {{cite book |last=Eiesland |first=Nancy L. |title=The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability |publisher=Abingdon Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0687108015 |location=Nashville, TN |language=English}}
- {{cite book |title=Human Disability and the Service of God: Reassessing Religious Practice |publication-date=1998 |editor-last=Eiesland |editor-first=Nancy L. |publication-place=Nashville, TN |publisher=Abingdon Press |isbn=9780687273164 |editor2-last=Saliers |editor2-first=Don E.}}
- {{cite book |last=Eiesland |first=Nancy L. |title=A Living Sculpture of Certain Truths: Reverencing Bodies in Church and Society |publication-date=1999 |series=Margaret E. Pyne Memorial Lecture |place=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Weston Jesuit School of Theology}}
- {{cite book |last=Eiesland |first=Nancy L. |title=A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb |publication-date=2000 |publication-place=New Brunswick, NJ |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0813527383}}
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