Medi Ann Volpe

In God’s Image

Theology

“In this groundbreaking study, Bishop Comensoli turns the usual question about being in the image of God on its head. Drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas, he argues that the profoundly cognitively impaired are in the image of God by nature. There is thus no need to prove that they bear the image of God. It is we, the ‘rationally capacious,’ who have the capacity to mar the image of God by conscious opposition to God’s grace. Comensoli’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in theology and intellectual disability.”