Sarah continues our series on Being God's Image by exploring the relationship between human embodiment and our identity as image bearers. She makes the important point that being an image bearer is not based on our capacity for certain functions (e.g. moral reasoning, rational thinking, creativity etc) but simply on the fact that we have (and are!) human bodies. All bodies – young, old, male, female, fragile, strong, impaired, growing – are an image of God and there is no ontological or value hierarchy between them. She meditates on the story from John 9 where Jesus heals a man who was blind from birth and in doing so, troubles the categories of ideal bodies by showing how impaired bodies are also the site of God's glory.
