By Stanley Hauerwas
ISBN-10: 0802846076
ISBN-13: 9780802846075
Growing outdated in Christ offers the 1st critical theological mirrored image ever on what it capacity to get older, really in our tradition and especially as a Christian. In a full-orbed dialogue of the topic, eighteen nice Christian thinkers survey biblical and ancient views on getting older, examine getting older within the smooth international, and describe the "Christian perform of starting to be old." alongside the best way they handle many well timed matters, together with the medicalization of getting older, the controversy over physician-assisted suicide, and the significance of friendships either one of the aged and among the aged and the young.
Weighty adequate to coach theologians, ethicists, caregivers but available sufficient for pastors and normal readers, this e-book will gain an individual looking faith-based perception into starting to be old.
Contributors:
David Aers
David Cloutier
Rowan A. Greer
Stanley Hauerwas
Judith C. Hays
Richard B. Hays
Shaun C. Henson
L. Gregory Jones
Susan Pendleton Jones
Patricia Beattie Jung
D.
Stephen Long
M. Therese Lysaught
David Matzko McCarthy
Keith G. Meador
Charles Pinches
Joel
James Shuman
Carole Bailey Stoneking
Laura Yordy
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