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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809043803321

Autore

Muers Rachel

Titolo

Living for the future : theological ethics for coming generations / / Rachel Muers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, c2008

ISBN

1-282-86795-4

9786612867958

0-567-13039-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

T & T Clark theology

Disciplina

241

Soggetti

Christian ethics

Intergenerational relations - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Beginning with the Revolution; 2 Searching the Scriptures; 3 Idolatry and Intergenerational Relations; 4 Being Called into Communities; 5 Being in Someone Else's Place; 6 Mothering the Future; 7 Sustainable Thinking; 8 Passing on the Genes; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; Biblical References

Sommario/riassunto

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 ethi