Introduction: The question of future generations Chapter 1: Absent generations and the presence of God Chapter 2: Intergenerational covenants Chapter 3: Being called into communities Chapter 4 Turning away from idols Chapter 5: Who am I for future generations? (1) Being in someone else's place Chapter 6: Who am I for future generations? (2) Mothering the future Chapter 7: Sustainable thinking Chapter 8: Passing on the genes Chapter 9: Conclusion
An examination of the importance of fundamental issues involved in ethical thought with a view to its significance for future generations.
Dr Rachel Muers is Lecturer in Theology in the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Blackwell, 2004).She also edited The Modern Theologians (Blackwells) together with David Ford.
"Rachel Muers has initiated a new subfield of theological ethics:
"the Ethics of Intergenerational Responsibility." Muers renews the
Enlightenment's call for us to reason for the sake of future
generations. Then she reminds us that the Enlightenment is
indebted to previous as well as future generations. The result is a
much more radical call: back to the scriptural as well as
philosophic sources of modern ethics and forward to a vision of how
"God constitutes intergenerational communities." It is at once a
maternal, theocentric, and eco-centric vision. A thoroughly
refreshing approach. Living for the Future should become a primary
source for future work on intergenerational matters." - Peter Ochs,
Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of
Virginia, USA
*Peter Ochs*
"Living for the Future is a timely and compelling inquiry into the
subject of intergenerational responsibility that calls Christian
people to practices of hope "for the third and fourth generation".
By developing maternal ways of thinking sensitive to asymmetrical
relations with future generations, Rachel Muers offers a deeply
considered exploration of moral issues entailed in safeguarding the
future. This book is insightful, biblically-informed, and fully
engaged with the realities of today's world. Muers writes the best
kind of systematic theology - exegetical, provocative, and clear."
- Esther D. Reed, University of Exeter
*Esther D. Reed*
Mention -Book News, February 2009
"Creative and timely insights."Baptist Times, 25th June 2010
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