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Forgetting Whose We Are Alzheimer's Disease and the Love of God

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ISBN-10: 0687020883

ISBN-13: 9780687020881

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Keck

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What does it mean to be truly human? When the mind loses its ability to remember, what happens to the life of the soul? This text considers these questions and many more and offers an arm of support to those who care for Alzheimer sufferers.
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction: Alzheimer's, the Theological Disease
Deconstruction Incarnate: The Etiology and Teleology of Alzheimer's Disease
Medical Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease
Imagining Alzheimer's: Narrative, Prayer, and Disease
Theological Questions Raised by Alzheimer's Disease: An Agenda
Memory and Canonicity
God's Memory, the Foundation of Our Hope
Human Memory, Faith, and Apostolicity in Israel and the Church
Forgetting, Sin, and Modernity
Dynamism and Duree: Modern Contributions to Memory
A Theological Appreciation of Memory: Memory as Canon
Method as Memory
Personal Experience and Pastoral Needs
The Duree of Doctrine
Traditional Christianity and the Church/Academy Problem
Theological Convictions
Method as Memory
The Soul and Its Grammar
The Passive-Voice Soul
The Deactivation of the Active-Voice Soul
Materialism and "Soul-Speak"
Calvin and Hobbes
The Heart-Body Mystery
Death and Resurrection, Praise and Paradise
Resurrection, Present and Past
Caregiving and Resurrection
Death, Dying, and Alzheimer's Disease
Death, Praise, and Church Preaching
Streets of Gold and the Beatific Vision
Sin, Alzheimer's Apocalyptic, and Forgiveness
Sin: A Glutinous Conviction
The Weariness of Acedia and the Burden of Guilt
Alzheimer's Apocalyptic and Church Proclamation
What the Church Can Learn
Beauty, the Church, and Christology
Descriptions of the Beautiful
Beauty and Belief; or, A Christian Rhetoric
The Caregiver as Christian Poet
Caregiving and the Freedom of Churched History
The Caregiver as Historian
Jesus as Historian
The Freedom of Churched History
Afterword: An Alzheimer's Hermeneutic and the Love of God
Notes
Bibliography
Index