1st Edition
Growing Up Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old, and vocation for people of faith is lifelong, Thomas Robb provides personal and Biblical... Read more
Contents
Preface
- Chapter 1: Growing Up
- My Life Has Changed
- Chapter 2: A Time for Every Purpose
- Humans Serve a Wonderful Purpose
- Humans Bear God’s Likeness
- Humans Have a Particular Responsibility
- It’s All in the Timing
- Chapter 3: Heroes, Heroines, and Role Models
- Growing Up Means Living a Long Time
- Growing Up Means Being in Covenant With God
- Growing Up Isn’t Easy
- Growing Up Means Facing Uncertainty
- Growing Up Means Saying “Yes” to God’s Call
- Chapter 4: The Play’s the Thing
- Two New Acts
- Entrances, Exits, and Intermissions
- An Analogy for Life
- Chapter 5: Still Room to Grow
- Children Become Adults
- Changes in Marriage and Family
- Changes in Physical Status and Health
- Midlife Crisis
- Learning to Grow Older
- Chapter 6: More Growing to Do
- Retiring From Work
- But Not for Lunch!
- Widowhood
- Caring for Elderly Parents
- Changes and Adjustments
- Getting It All Together
- Chapter 7: Growing Beyond Life
- Illness and Long Term Care
- The Process of Dying
- Loss and Grief
- Growing Up is Hard
- Chapter 8: A Place to Grow In
- Arguments in Favor of Older Adult Ministry
- An Argument From Design
- Chapter 9: Enabling Older People to Grow
- In Search of a Premise
- The Shape of Pastoral Nurturing
- A Kind of Case Management
- Ritual as a Form of Nurture
- Index
Biography
Thomas B Robb
