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Living for the Future - Theological Ethics for Coming Generations (Hardcover)
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Living for the Future - Theological Ethics for Coming Generations (Hardcover)
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This book offers an examination of the importance of fundamental
issues involved in ethical thought with a view to its significance
for future generations.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 implicity 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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