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'Us' not 'Them': Disability and Catholic Theology and Social Teaching
Into the Deep: Seeking Justice for the people of West Papua
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Catholic Social Justice Series

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This paper offers an invitation to dialogue about disability by firstly listening to a person living with disability. Justin Glyn SJ shares his experience of physical impairment and explains how it is the interaction of impairment with the social and physical environment that produces disability. Disability is socially constructed; it is the res

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Release dateJan 1, 1973
'Us' not 'Them': Disability and Catholic Theology and Social Teaching
Into the Deep: Seeking Justice for the people of West Papua

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  • Into the Deep: Seeking Justice for the people of West Papua

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    Into the Deep: Seeking Justice for the people of West Papua
    Into the Deep: Seeking Justice for the people of West Papua

    In this paper, Peter Arndt examines the issues faced by the indigenous people of West Papua and discusses their claim for freedom and independence. Peter has visited West Papua on several occasions, has met and spoken with people working for freedom and justice, and has heard their accounts of oppression and brutality on the part of police

  • 'Us' not 'Them': Disability and Catholic Theology and Social Teaching

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    'Us' not 'Them': Disability and Catholic Theology and Social Teaching
    'Us' not 'Them': Disability and Catholic Theology and Social Teaching

    This paper offers an invitation to dialogue about disability by firstly listening to a person living with disability. Justin Glyn SJ shares his experience of physical impairment and explains how it is the interaction of impairment with the social and physical environment that produces disability. Disability is socially constructed; it is the res

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Justin Glyn

Justin Glyn SJ is a blind Jesuit priest and Australian lawyer currently lecturing in canon law at Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, and is General Counsel to the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus. He grew up in South Africa and practised law there and in New Zealand, obtaining a PhD in internationals law and refugee law at Auckland University in 2008 before joining the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). After ordination in 2016 he spent two years at St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada, where he obtained a licentiate in canon law. Aside from issues of law (especially involving refugees, people with disabilities and others who often find themselves marginalised), Justin has a keen interest in languages and music and enjoys singing in choirs. He has written frequently for general and specialist publications in Australia on issues of international law and politics (especially in areas concerning civil liberties) and canon law as well as occasional articles on theology and spirituality. He lives and works in Melbourne.

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