Naming the human as somasarx attends to the fullness of ourselves, lineages, and future/s, by intervening in the medical, theological, and religious constructions that seek to divide, parse, and make intelligible our enfleshed, messy selves. We contend that available Christian theological anthropology is incomplete at best and harmful at worst, and must be re-oriented towards and grounded in crip-mad studies.
The authors work from self-embodied realities (mad-crip-able-disabled) to produce together an anthropology that is a practice of what it suggests. Somasarx as mad-crip theological anthropology forwards: 1) creation as ongoing process, not event, 2) enfleshed ties of the body to the body politic, 3) deep belovedness within vulnerable future/s, and 4) disruption as salvific, ethical demand. Somasarx as a theological anthropology is co-constitutive with the work of justice. As such, the paper concludes with the potential lived forms of a somasarx inspired by the work of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.