Forgetting whose we are

Forgetting whose we are Keck, David Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York Abingdon Press 1966 monographic en English David Keck Alzheimer's disease-a degenerative disease of th characterized especially by premature mental deteric licly visible and widely discussed form of a range of disorders known as senile dementia. The nature of Alzheimer's disease, especially its progressive debilita-tion 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 promise of salvation even for those who can no longer remember themselves, their families, or their relationship with God. "David Keck's courageous book opens up new horizons in the struggle to understand the biblical theological, and pastoral implications of the devastating effects of Alzheimer's disease on its victims, their caregivers, and the community at large. No one can read it without being both informed and deeply moved." Brevard 5. Childs, The Divinity School, Yale University My mother, aged eighty-three, has suffered with Alzheimer's disease for thirteen years. This remarkable book places the personal and familial devastation of Alzheimer's in the context of an acute inquiry into the role of memory in identity and faith, and the power of Christian faith's conviction that God remembers who we are even when we cannot. Unflinchingly, Keck's linking of this disease centrally with the cross-with the love and suffering of God-discloses both the depth of its destructiveness and its power as a reminder of our finiteness. With graceful erudition and compelling writing, Keck helps us claim our need for the sustaining power of faith's shared memory and the grounding of our lives and deaths in God's faithful remembering." James W. Fowler, Candler School of Theology. Emory University "Beauty and Alzheimer's disease are usually not things one thinks of at the same time, but in this remarkable book David Keck helps us understand that Alzheimer's disease must be seen as a part of God's glory. I do not know when I've read a book that was such a feast intellectually and yet at the same time so deeply moving. I hope this book will become something of a classic, it should be required reading for anyone involved in min-istry, especially to those who minister to persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease and related disorders and to families whose loved ones are so afflicted." Stanley Hauerwas, The Droinity School, Duke University DAVID KECK is Visiting Professor of History at Ateneo de Manilla University in the Philippines. His mother, Janice Osburn Keck, to whom the book is dedicated, was diag-nosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1990. 261.8321968687020883 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 261.832196831 Kec f E08001480 Non Fiction 261.832196831 Kec f Forgetting_whose_we_are.jpg 22934 2014-05-14 11:21:40 2026-02-21 08:39:12 machine generated