Living for the Future Theological Ethics for Coming Generations

by Muers, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9780567032256
• ISBN10: 0567032256
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
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Summary

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 con

Author Biography

Rachel Muers is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

Beginning with the Revolution	p. 13
Searching the Scriptures	p. 31
Idolatry and Intergenerational Relations	p. 58
Being Called into Communities	p. 78
Being in Someone Else's Place	p. 102
Mothering the Future	p. 127
Sustainable Thinking	p. 151
Passing on the Genes	p. 171
Afterword	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 211
Biblical References	p. 215
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