Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeElizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 févr. 2008 - 272 pages This collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities. |
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... Healing and wholeness come as we are able , unselfconsciously , to connect with and accept other people , disabled or not , as our brothers and sisters . To live interdependently and in love , relating to the person not the disability ...
... Healing and wholeness come as we are able , unselfconsciously , to connect with and accept other people , disabled or not , as our brothers and sisters . To live interdependently and in love , relating to the person not the disability ...
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... healer. McNamara sets out the importance of our understanding of ourselves as embodied persons as we provide care, and work with older people who have disabilities. McNamara and other authors in this book challenge the liberal societal ...
... healer. McNamara sets out the importance of our understanding of ourselves as embodied persons as we provide care, and work with older people who have disabilities. McNamara and other authors in this book challenge the liberal societal ...
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... healing perspectives on their situation. Thus whilst a person's situation may appear to be hopeless, in reality there always remains the possibility of 'something more'. None of this is intended to minimize the very real pain ...
... healing perspectives on their situation. Thus whilst a person's situation may appear to be hopeless, in reality there always remains the possibility of 'something more'. None of this is intended to minimize the very real pain ...
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... healer ' . With him I have asked how wounds can become the source of healing ( Nouwen 1972 ) . Answering this question takes us into the mystery of Christian discipleship and how it engages the strengths and limits of our creaturely ...
... healer ' . With him I have asked how wounds can become the source of healing ( Nouwen 1972 ) . Answering this question takes us into the mystery of Christian discipleship and how it engages the strengths and limits of our creaturely ...
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... healing. In the third section it will then be possible to sketch elements of an ethic that is attentive to the woundedness and healing that characterize the lives of persons who are elderly or who live with a disability. Ageing. persons ...
... healing. In the third section it will then be possible to sketch elements of an ethic that is attentive to the woundedness and healing that characterize the lives of persons who are elderly or who live with a disability. Ageing. persons ...
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A Narrative of Ageing Loss and Exclusion | 72 |
Buddhist Perspectives for a Theology of Pastoral Care for the Ageing and Persons with Disabilities | 145 |
The Interplay of Faith and Depression in Later Life | 163 |
The Potential for Choir Work to Reduce Depression and Meet Spiritual Needs | 182 |
Chapter 15 Humour and Its Link to Meaning and Spirituality in War | 200 |
Chapter 16 Pastoral Rituals Ageing and New Paths into Meaning | 217 |
The Possibilities for Wellbeing and Care | 233 |
REFERENCES | 240 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 258 |
Ethical and Theological Issues for Dementia Care | 81 |
Exploring Disability and Spirituality | 94 |
Jacobs Wrestling with the Unknown Genesis 32 | 106 |
Addressing the Challenge of Dementia in Later Life | 118 |
A Journey Inwards to a Spiritual Self | 134 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 263 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 269 |
back cover | 273 |
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Page 127 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 85 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 129 - Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies: Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!
Page 33 - Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Page 181 - Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.
Page 111 - Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me.
Page 181 - We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
Page 218 - Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Page 118 - May brighter, fairer be. 0 Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be.
Page 113 - So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.