Lumps and Bumps: Why Contemporary Missiology Needs Cartography, Geology, Archaeology and Gerontology

ABSTRACT

Although the human lifespan continues to expand and the experience of ageing changes, many parts of society, including the churches, continue to marginalise the experience of older people. This paper argues that in order to chart our course through the new story of ageing, we need older people to act as guides, and we need to use the hidden clues in their stories to interpret what is emerging.

KEYWORDS:

• Adulthood II
• ageism
• Erikson
• landscape
• mapping
• story
• third age

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Note on contributor

The Revd Dr Keith R. Albans was Director of Chaplaincy and Spirituality, Methodist Homes (MHA), Derby, from 2001 to 2017.