Living for the Future
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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

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An examination of the importance of fundamental issues involved in ethical thought with a view to its significance for future generations.

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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.

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"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
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"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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