What Happens to Faith When Christians Get Dementia?: The Faith Experience and Practice of Evangelical Christians Living with Mild to Moderate Dementia

by 'Tricia Williams

Overview

What happens to faith when Christians get dementia? Here, the unique voices of Christians who live with this illness bring insight and prompt theological reflection on the profound questions that dementia asks of faith. Within the boundaries of a biblical agenda, these questions are explored using a model of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation (reminiscent of Brueggemann's scheme), to seek deeper understanding of faith experience and practice. Arising from the research, fresh theological insights and challenges for the church call for new, creative practices to enable the faith nurture of disciples of Jesus living with this disease. Counterintuitively, the study reveals a growing, positive experience of faith in the light of dementia highlighting the significance of Christian hope. Faith does not end with diagnosis of this illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725272156
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	294
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

‘Tricia Williams is a practical and contextual theologian who has been deeply involved in reflection on issues of faith and dementia. She developed the “Being with God” Bible resources (Scripture Union) for Christians living with dementia, and has written widely on the subject.