Growing Old in Christ

, by Hauerwas, Stanley M.

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ISBN: 9780802846075 | 0802846076
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2003

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Introduction

vii

Carole Bailey Stoneking

Part I: Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Aging

The Christian Practice of Growing Old: The Witness of Scripture

(16)

Richard B. Hays and Judith C. Hays

Special Gift and Special Burden: Views of Old Age in the Early Church

(19)

Rowan A. Greer

The Christian Practice of Growing Old in the Middle Ages

(25)

David Aers

Part II: Critical Perspectives on Modern Problems of Aging

Modernity: The Social Construction of Aging

(27)

Carole Bailey Stoneking

Growing Old in a Therapeutic Culture

(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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