1st Edition
Still Waters Run Deep Theological Reflections on Dementia, Faithfulness, and Peaceable Presence
A Word From the Editor
James W. Ellor
A Word From the Guest Editors
John Swinton and Elizabeth MacKinlay
1. A Spiritual Journey Into the I-Thou Relationship: A Personal Reflection on Living With Dementia
Christine Bryden
2. My Glorious Opportunity: How My Dementia Has Been a Gift
Jennifer Bute
3. Journeys With People Who Have Dementia: Connecting and Finding Meaning in the Journey
Elizabeth MacKinlay
4. Epiphanies: Small Miracles in Everyday Experiences of Dementia
Ann Zubrick
5. God’s Faithfulness and Dementia: Christian Theology in Context
Rosalie Evelyn Hudson
6. Lost in Eden: Dementia From Paradise
Aileen Barclay
7. The Lived Experience of Dementia: Developing a Contextual Theology
Christopher C. H. Cook
8. "I Am Still With You": Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer
Warren A. Kinghorn
9. What Happens to the Person With Dementia?
Stephen Ames
Biography
John Swinton is Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care and Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. For more than a decade John worked as a registered mental health nurse. He also worked for a number of years as a hospital and community mental health Chaplain. In 2016 John’s Dementia: Living in the memories of God won the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Ramsey Prize for excellence in theological writing.
Elizabeth MacKinlay is a registered nurse and priest in the Anglican Church of Australia. Inaugural Director of the Centre for Ageing and Pastoral Studies until 2012 and now Professor in the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University. Her book, co-authored with Corinne Trevitt, Finding meaning in the Experience of Dementia, won the Australasian Journal on Ageing book prize 2013.
