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Renewing New Testament Christology
Leander E. Keck; Foreword by David Keck; Afterword by Richard B. Hays
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Alzheimer's disease - a degenerative disease of the central nervous
system characterized especially by premature mental deterioration -
is the most publicly visible and widely discussed form of a range
of disorders known as senile dementia. The nature of Alzheimer's
disease, especially its progressive debilitation of the memory,
raises key theological issues. What does it mean to be truly human?
Does our ability to remember define who we are as persons? When the
mind loses its ability to remember, what happens to the life of the
soul? When we forget God, does God still remember us? Forgetting
Whose We Are offers a Christian understanding of and response to
the difficult theological, spiritual, and pastoral problems raised
by Alzheimer's disease. Filling an important gap in existing
literature by directly confronting the theological challenges of
Alzheimer's disease to victims, caregivers, and their communities,
the book affirms the classic Christian doctrines that witness to
the reality of grace and the promises of salvation even for those
who can no longer remember themselves, their families, or their
relationship with God.
This book offers a full-scale study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages. Seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society, David Keck considers a wide range of fascinating questions such as: Why do angels appear on baptismal fonts? How and why did angels become normative for certain members of the church? How did they become a required course of study? Did popular beliefs about angels diverge from the angelologies of the theologians? Why did some heretics claim to derive their authority from heavenly spirits? Keck spreads his net wide in the attempt to catch traces of angels and angelic beliefs in as many portions of the medieval world as possible. Metaphysics and mystery plays, prayers and pilgrimages, Cathars and cathedrals-all these and many more disparate sources taken together reveal a society deeply engaged with angels on all its levels and in some unlikely ways.
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