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 ethical framework,
but to rethink how ethics is done. Doing intergenerationally
responsible theology and ethics means paying attention to how
people are formed as theological and ethical reasoners (reasoners
about the good), how social practices of deliberation about the
good are maintained and developed, and how all of this relates to
an understanding of the world as the sphere of God's transforming
action. In other words, an intergenerationally responsible
theological ethics will pay attention to the ethics, and the
spirituality, of "ethics" itself.
Her account of the ethical relation to future generations
centres on three key concepts: "choosing life" (see Deut 30:19);
"keeping the sources open"; and "sustaining fruitful contexts."
These concepts are developed theologically and in engagement with
extra-theological conversations on intergenerational
responsibility. She shows how they take up and move beyond concerns
expressed in those conversations - for "survival," for the right
distribution of resources, and for the maintenance of human
values.
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