| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 216 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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T & T Clark theology
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T & T Clark theology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Beginning with the revolution -- Searching the scriptures -- Idolatry and intergenerational relations -- Being called into communities -- Being in someone else's place -- Mothering the future -- Sustainable thinking -- Passing on the genes. |
| Summary |
Our relationship to future generations raises fundamental issues for ethical thought, to which a Christian theological response is both possible and significant. A relationship to future generations is implicitly central to many of today's most public controversies - over environmental protection, genetic research, and the purpose of education, to name but a few; but it has received little explicit or extended consideration. In Living for the Future Rachel Muers argues and seeks to demonstrate that to consider future generations as ethically significant is not simply to extend an existing ethical framework, but to rethink how ethics is done. Doing intergenerationally responsible theology and ethics means paying attention to how people are formed as theological and ethical reasoners (reasoners about the good), how social practices of deliberation about the good are maintained and developed, and how all of this relates to an understanding of the world as the sphere of God's transforming action. In other words, an intergenerationally responsible theological ethics will pay attention to the ethics, and the spirituality, of "ethics" itself. Her account of the ethical relation to future generations centres on three key concepts: "choosing life" (see Deut 30:19); "keeping the sources open"; and "sustaining fruitful contexts". These concepts are developed theologically and in engagement with extra-theological conversations on intergenerational responsibility. She shows how they take up and move beyond concerns expressed in those conversations - for "survival", for the right distribution of resources, and for the maintenance of human values. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Christian ethics.
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Christian ethics. |
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Intergenerational relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Intergenerational relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Intergenerational relationships. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Muers, Rachel. Living for the future. London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2008 9780567032256 (DLC) 2009292113 (OCoLC)233263474 |
| ISBN |
9780567130396 (electronic book) |
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0567130398 (electronic book) |
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9780567155757 (paperback) |
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0567155757 (paperback) |
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9780567032256 |
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0567032256 |
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