Living for the Future: Theological Ethics for Coming Generations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Portrait

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.

Pressestimmen

"Rachel Muers has initiated a new subfield of theological ethics: "the Ethics of Intergenerational Responsibility." Myers 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