The field of disability theology is an emerging area of theological enquiry that seeks to explore the relationship between our understandings of God and human beings in the light of the experience of human disability. When it comes to disability, the tendency within the pastoral and ethical literature has been to concentrate on issues around pastoral care and ethics. Here disability is seen as a pastoral or ethical issue with little or no concentrated attention paid to the theological implications. The focus is on ethical dilemmas, such as whether or not prenatal testing for disability is appropriate, or pastoral matters around how to make sure that churches are accessible to people in wheelchairs. There is of course nothing wrong with such approaches. We all need pastoral care and all of us need the tools to deal with complex ethical challenges. Disability theology acknowledges the importance of such things but seeks to push further into a broader range of theological issues, which includes but is not defined by the pastoral and the ethical.