Century marks.(a collection of quotations on alzheimer's, faith, guns, fair trade, theology and so on) From: The Christian Century | Date: August 9, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

CALVIN V. FREUD: Alzheimer's is a tragedy for any human being, but the disease must be an especially cruel fate for a historian, one who has made his livelihood and identity out of memory and of knowledge of the past. Such was James Nichols, a church historian who taught at the University of Chicago and Princeton Theological Seminary, where he also served as dean. His daughter, novelist Sue Miller, writes that her father seemed to accept the onset of Alzheimer's. A key to his persp...