Description
Book SynopsisCrafts a theology of time that draws us toward a perspective wherein time is a gift and a calling. Time is not a commodity nor is time to be mastered. Time is a gift of God to humans, but is also a gift given back to God by humans.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Time, Disability, and the Fragile Brain
- Part I. Time and Disability
- Chapter 1. Thinking about Time: The Tyranny of the Clock
- Chapter 2. Time and Progress: Disability and the Wrong Kind of Time
- Part II. Learning to Live in God's Time
- Chapter 3. Time and Christ: A Brief Theology of Time
- Chapter 4. Becoming Friends of Time: Love Has a Speed
- Part III. From Inclusion to Discipleship
- Chapter 5. Time and Discipleship: Inclusion, Discipleship, and Profound Intellectual Disability
- Chapter 6. Time and Vocation: Slow and Gentle Disciples
- Part IV. Reclaiming the Heart
- Chapter 7. Time and Memory: Dementia and the Advancement of Time
- Chapter 8. Time and the Heart: Affective Remembering
- Part V. The Horror of Time
- Chapter 9. The Horror of Time: Acquired Brain Injury and Personality Change
- Chapter 10. The Time Before and the Time After: Brain Injury, Human Identity, and the Hiddenness of Our Lives in Christ
- Chapter 11. Time and Ritual: Funerals for Friends
- Conclusion: Being in Christ, Being in Time: Every Body Has a Place
- Appendix: Redeeming Time: A Lived Funeral
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
