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Still Waters Run Deep
148 pages, Paperback
Published December 18, 2024
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John Swinton
113 books77 followersJohn Swinton (born 1957) is a Scottish theologian. He is the Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. He is founder of the university's Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability. He is an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and Master of Christ’s College, the university's theological college. Swinton is a major figure in the development of disability theology.
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December 10, 2025
I can't remember which source led me to discover the collection of articles in Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, 28 but I greatly appreciated working through these and was glad to discover that they had belatedly been made more accessible to a wider audience in this book. If I had to identify one of the contributors from which I most benefitted, it would probably be Warren Kinghorn's “I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer. His spans both the theoretical and the practical:
> "human personhood, worth, and identity is not self-generated; it is rather received as a gift of God, and secured by God in God’s life and God’s memory against any who would violate it (Hudson, 2004). ... As Swinton (2012, p. 197) writes, “‘I think, therefore I am’ is replaced [in the Christian story] with ‘We are because God sustains us in God’s memory.’ Our hope lies in the fact that we are living in the memories of God.”"
> "Caring for someone with moderate or advanced dementia can be hard, draining, frustrating, exhausting work, particularly if the caregiver is a spouse or close family member. It is, in fact, too hard for anyone to do alone. Healthy caregiving requires the matrix of a community willing to “bear one another’s burdens” rather than hiding them from each other, ensuring not only that people with dementia are “companioned” but that caregivers are “companioned” also, receiving the help and support that they need."
> "human personhood, worth, and identity is not self-generated; it is rather received as a gift of God, and secured by God in God’s life and God’s memory against any who would violate it (Hudson, 2004). ... As Swinton (2012, p. 197) writes, “‘I think, therefore I am’ is replaced [in the Christian story] with ‘We are because God sustains us in God’s memory.’ Our hope lies in the fact that we are living in the memories of God.”"
> "Caring for someone with moderate or advanced dementia can be hard, draining, frustrating, exhausting work, particularly if the caregiver is a spouse or close family member. It is, in fact, too hard for anyone to do alone. Healthy caregiving requires the matrix of a community willing to “bear one another’s burdens” rather than hiding them from each other, ensuring not only that people with dementia are “companioned” but that caregivers are “companioned” also, receiving the help and support that they need."
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