Humanity Comes of Age: The New Context for Ministry with the Elderly-#64

by Susanne S. Paul, James A. Paul, James Paul

Humanity Comes of Age - The New Context for Ministry with the Elderly This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2825410489
• ISBN13: 9782825410486
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: World Council of Churches
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

"Humanity Comes of Age"

A mission study resource with a globalized view of how to empower and liberate our ageing populations, not just occupy their time with harmless pastimes and "numbing down."

"Humanity Comes of Age"

This mission study resource is aimed at helping churches work with the expanding issues of ageing and problems of the elderly. The approach is globalized which tends to water down specifics; however, a universal theme is the women's problems of worklessness and unproductinve ageing. The authors give a clear-cut description of how ageing has been viewed throughout the ages, the increasing problems of women in today's society, and last of all, how churches can aid the elderly in achieving empowerment and liberation, not just harmless pastimes and "numbing down." Interestingly, the authors repeatedly chastise the World Bank for increasing difficulties by insisting that impoverished governments eliminate programs which assist our ageing population. Marcia Maguire St Simons United Methodist Church, GA --church librarian