Simon Biggs

J. Gordon Harris (2008). Biblical Perspectives on Ageing: God and the Elderly (second edition). New York: Harworth Press, 199 pp. ISBN 978 0 78903 538 7 (hardbound)

Theorising ageing and the question of a long life: eye openings

A life course perspective, drawing on historical and personal experiences, is used to identify eye-opening concepts that can be used to make sense of the world in terms of personal and social ageing, in the context of intergenerational relationships. Two issues have been identified that characterise a challenge to cultural adaptation: that of generations inc