Sabbath rest as vocation: aging toward death

Autumn Alcott Ridenour offers a deep Christian theological discussion on the meaning of aging towards death with purpose, identity, and communal significance.

Drawing from both explicit claims and constructive interpretations of St Augustine's and Karl Barth's understanding of death and aging, she books describes moral virtue as participation in Christ across generations that crystallises in preparation for Sabbath rest during the aging stage of life.

Locating moral agency as union with Christ results in virtuous practices for aging individuals and their surrounding communities.

Likewise, circumscribing aging identity in terms of both its limits and possibilities helps offer meaning for our mortality and agedness, thus, entailing implications not only for virtue ethics, but also for the goals of medicine.