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“I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer

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Kinghorn, WA
Published in: Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging
April 2, 2016

Persons with dementia suffer not only from neuropathology but also from cultural norms that exalt agency, privilege rationality, equate worth with capacity, and discourage disability and dependence. In Christian theological context, however, these are faulty assumptions that harm people with dementia. Christian tradition affirms, rather, that humans are integrated, whole-person, embodied souls on a journey to God; dependent on others and on God; and endowed by God with intrinsic worth that is unrelated to capacities. Four theological parameters—creation, participation, lament, and song—enable resistance to prevalent toxic social norms and promote faithful Christian re-membering of people with dementia.

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Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging

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1552-8049

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1552-8030

Publication Date

April 2, 2016

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28

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1-2

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98 / 117

Related Subject Headings

  • 50 Philosophy and religious studies
  • 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies
 

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Kinghorn, W. A. (2016). “I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, 28(1–2), 98–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2015.1046633
Kinghorn, W. A. ““I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer.” Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging 28, no. 1–2 (April 2, 2016): 98–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2015.1046633.
Kinghorn WA. “I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging. 2016 Apr 2;28(1–2):98–117.
Kinghorn, W. A. ““I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer.” Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, vol. 28, no. 1–2, Apr. 2016, pp. 98–117. Scopus, doi:10.1080/15528030.2015.1046633.
Kinghorn WA. “I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging. 2016 Apr 2;28(1–2):98–117.

Published In

Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging

DOI

EISSN

1552-8049

ISSN

1552-8030

Publication Date

April 2, 2016

Volume

28

Issue

1-2

Start / End Page

98 / 117

Related Subject Headings

  • 50 Philosophy and religious studies
  • 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies