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| Introduction | vii | |
| Part I | Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Aging | |
| The Christian Practice of Growing Old: The Witness of Scripture | 3 | |
| Special Gift and Special Burden: Views of Old Age in the Early Church | 19 | |
| The Christian Practice of Growing Old in the Middle Ages | 38 | |
| Part II | Critical Perspectives on Modern Problems of Aging | |
| Modernity: The Social Construction of Aging | 63 | |
| Growing Old in a Therapeutic Culture | 90 | |
| Differences among the Elderly: Who Is on the Road to Bremen? | 112 | |
| The Language of Death: Theology and Economics in Conflict | 129 | |
| The Last Gift: The Elderly, the Church, and the Gift of a Good Death | 151 | |
| Part III | The Christian Practice of Growing Old | |
| Captured in Time: Friendship and Aging | 169 | |
| Worship, the Eucharist, Baptism, and Aging | 185 | |
| The Virtues of Aging | 202 | |
| Generational Conflict: Continuity and Change | 226 | |
| The Pressures to Die: Reconceiving the Shape of Christian Life in the Face of Physician-Assisted Suicide | 247 | |
| Memory, Funerals, and the Communion of Saints: Growing Old and Practices of Remembering | 267 | |
| Contributors | 302 | |
| Index | 304 |
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David Nunns
reviewed Growing Old in Christ on August 28, 2011
Growing Old in Christ
Many of these essays are challenging in regards our views on aging and care for the aged, especially if we are truly baptized into a community. What does it mean to be a person in our world today, and how does the loss of ability and other losses affect our own views of ourselves as persons? Many many interesting and thought-provoking ideas of aging and the aged.
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