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Abstract Faithfully participating in the Eucharist has been a struggle for the body of Christ since the formation of the Church (I Cor 11:17-34). According to Paul, the Eucharist, as a cruciform meal was intended to perform socializing dynamics that pushed against rather than reinforced social fragmentation and marginalization within the Corinthian body (Gerd Theissen and Mark T. Finney). The meal offered the church in Corinth a way to enable boundaries by giving the church a cruciform location for its identity recognition, moral formation, and missional vocation (Yung Suk Kim, Matthew Meyer Boulton, and Joseph H. Hellerman). Like the church in Corinth, the late modern church continues to struggle with faithfully “keeping the feast.” One example of this struggle that this paper explores is the tension that exists between many church’s practices of the Eucharist and the inclusion of individuals with disabilities. The late modern church’s struggle with ableism has ancient roots. Some argue (Saul M. Olyan) that it is present even within the biblical data itself, while others (Amos Yong) argue that ableism is caused by misinterpretations of the biblical data from “normate perspectives” which exclude disability as normal and therefore give way to the stigmatization and marginalization of individuals with disabilities in the church. I argue that when Scripture is read as a whole it offers a more hopeful picture for the inclusion of individuals with disabilities, particularly when it is read in light of the cruciform arc of the redemptive story which is symbolized in the Eucharist meal (Nancy Eiesland, Grant Macaskill, and Edward Foley). 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, with its cruciform picture of the Eucharist feast, offers the late modern church a heuristic model for how to read the biblical data to enable boundaries for individuals with disabilities.
自教会成立以来,忠实地参加圣体圣事一直是为基督的身体而奋斗(格前11:17-34)。根据保罗的说法,圣餐作为一个十字形的餐,是为了执行社交动态,推动而不是加强哥林多体内的社会分裂和边缘化(Gerd Theissen和Mark T. Finney)。这顿饭为哥林多教会提供了一种边界的方式,通过给教会一个十字架的位置来识别身份,道德形成和宣教使命(Yung Suk Kim, Matthew Meyer Boulton和Joseph H. Hellerman)。像哥林多教会一样,晚期现代教会继续为忠实地“守节期”而挣扎。这篇文章探讨的一个斗争的例子是存在于许多教会的圣餐实践和残疾人的包容之间的紧张关系。晚期现代教会与残疾歧视的斗争有着古老的根源。一些人认为(Saul M. Olyan),它甚至存在于圣经数据本身,而另一些人(Amos Yong)认为,残疾歧视是由从“正常角度”对圣经数据的误解造成的,这种误解将残疾排除在正常的情况下,因此让位于教会对残疾人的污名化和边缘化。我认为,当圣经作为一个整体来阅读时,它为残疾人提供了一幅更有希望的画面,特别是当它被视为圣餐中象征的救赎故事的十字弧线时(Nancy Eiesland, Grant Macaskill和Edward Foley)。《哥林多前书》11:17-34中圣餐盛宴的十字形画面,为晚期现代教会提供了一个启发式模型,告诉他们如何阅读圣经数据,从而为残疾人士提供界限。