Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch
Matters of Life and Death
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The Importance of Internal Faith in the Age of Dementia
There's a sense in which we are we are what we do or we are our memories and overwhelmingly we seem to link this with a sense of like an enemy that's not connected to the body. I think that that is scientifically untenable there's you know movements of embodied cognition observing that all of these things are fully embodied and we are. And it's interesting that a lot of this move towards understanding the body as the locus of the self comes from French Catholic teaching. It's interesting that these kind of church traditions that focus on liturgy and embodied practice have been the ones to maybe tell us Protestants well hold on it's not just about what you think.
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