Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction

• Part I: The Atlanta Experience
• How to Integrate Gerontology Into Seminary Curriculum
• Three Seminaries and a Gerontology Center in Atlanta
• Gerontology in the Three Atlanta Seminaries: Views of the Post-Doctoral Fellows
• Part II: Gerontological and Theological Disciplines and Practices
• Aging and a Meaningful Future
• An Historical Perspective on the Church and the Elderly
• Gerontology and the New Testament
• Pastoral Care and Models of Aging
• Christian Education and Older Persons in Congregations
• Worship and Gerontology
• Spirituality and the Later Years
• Gerontology in Urban and Rural Congregations and Communities
• Preaching and Aging

About the Author

Barbara Payne, Earl D. C. Brewer