Growing old in Christ /

Growing old in Christ / edited by Stanley Hauerwas ... [and others]. - x, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Christian practice of growing old: the witness of scripture / Special gift and special burden: views of old age in the Early Church / Christian practice of growing old in the Middle Ages / Modernity: the social construction of aging / Growing old in a therapeutic culture / Differences among the elderly: who is on the road to Bremen? / Language of death: theology and economics in conflict / Richard B. Hays and Judith C. Hays -- Rowan A. Greer -- David Aers -- Carole Bailey Stoneking -- Keith G. Meador and Shaun C. Henson -- Patricia Beattie Jung -- Last gift: the elderly, the Church, and the gift of a good death / Captured in time: friendship and aging / Worship, the Eucharist, baptism, and aging / Virtues of aging / Generational conflict: continuity and change / Pressures to die: reconceiving the shape of Christian life in the face of physician-assisted suicide / D. Stephen Long -- Joel James Shuman -- Stanley Hauerwas and Laura Yordy -- Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones -- Charles Pinches -- David Matzko McCarthy -- David Cloutier -- Memory, funerals, and the communion of saints: growing old and practices of remembering / M. Therese Lysaught.

0802846076 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003049023

GBA3-Y7236


Older Christians--Religious life.
Aging--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BV4580 / .G76 2003

261.8 HAU