Living for the future [[electronic resource] ] : theological ethics for coming generations / / Rachel Muers

• Autore: Muers Rachel
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 241
• Soggetto topico: Christian ethics; Intergenerational relations - Religious aspects - Christianity
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Living for the future
• ISBN: 1-282-86795-4; 9786612867958; 0-567-13039-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785379003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: T & T Clark theology.