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Growing old in Christ / edited by Stanley Hauerwas ... [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2003Description: x, 310 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802846076 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.8 HAU 21
LOC classification:
  • BV4580 .G76 2003
Contents:
Christian practice of growing old: the witness of scripture / Richard B. Hays and Judith C. Hays -- Special gift and special burden: views of old age in the Early Church / Rowan A. Greer -- Christian practice of growing old in the Middle Ages / David Aers -- Modernity: the social construction of aging / Carole Bailey Stoneking -- Growing old in a therapeutic culture / Keith G. Meador and Shaun C. Henson -- Differences among the elderly: who is on the road to Bremen? / Patricia Beattie Jung -- Language of death: theology and economics in conflict /
D. Stephen Long -- Last gift: the elderly, the Church, and the gift of a good death / Joel James Shuman -- Captured in time: friendship and aging / Stanley Hauerwas and Laura Yordy -- Worship, the Eucharist, baptism, and aging / Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones -- Virtues of aging / Charles Pinches -- Generational conflict: continuity and change / David Matzko McCarthy -- Pressures to die: reconceiving the shape of Christian life in the face of physician-assisted suicide / David Cloutier --
Memory, funerals, and the communion of saints: growing old and practices of remembering / M. Therese Lysaught.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Christian practice of growing old: the witness of scripture / Richard B. Hays and Judith C. Hays -- Special gift and special burden: views of old age in the Early Church / Rowan A. Greer -- Christian practice of growing old in the Middle Ages / David Aers -- Modernity: the social construction of aging / Carole Bailey Stoneking -- Growing old in a therapeutic culture / Keith G. Meador and Shaun C. Henson -- Differences among the elderly: who is on the road to Bremen? / Patricia Beattie Jung -- Language of death: theology and economics in conflict /

D. Stephen Long -- Last gift: the elderly, the Church, and the gift of a good death / Joel James Shuman -- Captured in time: friendship and aging / Stanley Hauerwas and Laura Yordy -- Worship, the Eucharist, baptism, and aging / Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones -- Virtues of aging / Charles Pinches -- Generational conflict: continuity and change / David Matzko McCarthy -- Pressures to die: reconceiving the shape of Christian life in the face of physician-assisted suicide / David Cloutier --

Memory, funerals, and the communion of saints: growing old and practices of remembering / M. Therese Lysaught.

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