Growing Old in Christ,9780802846075

Growing Old in Christ

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ISBN13: 9780802846075
ISBN10: 0802846076
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Carole Bailey Stoneking
Part I: Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Aging
The Christian Practice of Growing Old: The Witness of Scripture
3(16)
Richard B. Hays and Judith C. Hays
Special Gift and Special Burden: Views of Old Age in the Early Church
19(19)
Rowan A. Greer
The Christian Practice of Growing Old in the Middle Ages
38(25)
David Aers
Part II: Critical Perspectives on Modern Problems of Aging
Modernity: The Social Construction of Aging
63(27)
Carole Bailey Stoneking
Growing Old in a Therapeutic Culture
90(22)
Keith G. Meador and Shaun C. Henson
Differences among the Elderly: Who Is on the Road to Bremen?
112(17)
Patricia Beattie Jung
The Language of Death: Theology and Economics in Conflict
129(22)
D. Stephen Long
The Last Gift: The Elderly, the Church, and the Gift of a Good Death
151(18)
Joel James Shuman
Part III: The Christian Practice of Growing Old
Captured in Time: Friendship and Aging
169(16)
Stanley Hauerwas and Laura Yordy
Worship, the Eucharist, Baptism, and Aging
185(17)
Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones
The Virtues of Aging
202(24)
Charles Pinches
Generational Conflict: Continuity and Change
226(21)
David Matzko McCarthy
The Pressures to Die: Reconceiving the Shape of Christian Life in the Face of Physician-Assisted Suicide
247(20)
David Cloutier
Memory, Funerals, and the Communion of Saints: Growing Old and Practices of Remembering
267(35)
M. Therese Lysaught
Contributors 302(2)
Index 304

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