On Blindness and Disability

In order to read what John Hull has written about blindness and disability, you can read his 1990 book Touching the Rock, an Experience of Blindness. This was originally published in several English editions and in several foreign languages. It is out of print but you may find it in second hand book shops, and you will probably be able to borrow it from libraries.

Everything in Touching the Rock is now included in a new and enlarged second edition under the new title On Sight and Insight, a Journey into the World of Blindness. This also has a lot of new material and is about one third as large again as the original book. You can buy it through Amazon.

Hull's most recent book on this subject is In the Beginning there was Darkness, a Blind Person's Conversations with the Bible.  This book is published both in the UK and the USA - for details click on the title above.

On this website, you can read several articles and book chapters about blindness and a theology of disability.  

John Hull interviewed by Sebastian Lübben

The Broken Body in a Broken World

Open Letter from a Blind Disciple to a Sighted Saviour

A Spirituality of Disability 

The Material Spirituality of Blindness and Money

Blindness and the Face of God

Could a blind person have been a disciple of Jesus?

Recognising another world

Do you think I am Stupid?

Sight to the inly Blind: Attitudes to Blindness in the Hymnbooks

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