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The author tests the kinship of the concepts “faithful aging,” the centerpiece of her book, The Art of Growing Old: A Guide to Faithful Aging (1998), and “development of character,” central to James Hillman's book, The Force of Character and the Lasting Life (1999). Faithful aging is assessed in characters from two plays: Graham Greene's The Potting Shed and Robert Anderson's I Never Sang for My Father. Finally, Saussy reflects on the development of character as a theological issue.
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Saussy, C. Faithful Aging and the Development of Character. Pastoral Psychology 49, 451–460 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010353601993
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