Growing old in Christ / edited by Stanley Hauerwas ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2003.Description: x, 310 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0802846076 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.8 21 H292g
LOC classification:
  • BV 4580 .G76 2003
Contents:
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 --
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 /
Memory, funerals, and the communion of saints: growing old and practices of remembering / M. Therese Lysaught.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 261.8 H292g (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000855532

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

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 /

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

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