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Living for the Future

Theological Ethics for Coming Generations

By: Rachel Muers

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Living for the Future

Theological Ethics for Coming Generations

By: Rachel Muers

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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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567130398

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Modern Theology

A Critical Introduction

By: Rachel Muers,Mike Higton

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Modern Theology

A Critical Introduction

By: Rachel Muers,Mike Higton

This book offers a fresh and up-to-date introduction to modern Christian theology. The ‘long nineteenth century’ saw enormous transformations of theology, and of thought about religion, that shaped the way both Christianity and ‘religion’ are understood today. Muers and Higton provide a lucid guide to the development of theology since 1789, giving students a critical understanding of their own ‘modern’ assumptions, of the origins of the debates and the fields of study in which they are involved, and of major modern thinkers. Modern Theology: introduces the context and work of a selection of major nineteenth-century thinkers who decisively affected the shape of modern theology presents key debates and issues that have their roots in the nineteenth century but are also central to the study of twentieth- and twenty-first-century theology includes exercises and study materials that explicitly focus on the development of core academic skills. This valuable resource also contains a glossary, timeline, annotated bibliographies and illustrations.

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Routledge

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1136250921

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9781136250927

Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

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Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been proposed and debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe or misadventure is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design that the word once conveyed. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in particular as a case study. Chapters focus on the origins of tragedy in ancient Greece, gospel and tragedy, the beginnings of the Quaker movement in seventeenth-century England, apocalyptic versus secularized experiences of time, Edwardian Quaker triumphalism, the search for English identity in postcolonial Britain, liberal Quakerism at the end of the twentieth century, and the promise and dilemma of postmodernity. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation. A Foreword by Richard Fenn introduces the book with an original and provocative meditation on tragedy and time.

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1351878417

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Theology on the Menu

Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet

By: David Grumett,Rachel Muers

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Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet

By: David Grumett,Rachel Muers

Food - what we eat, how much we eat, how it is produced and prepared, and its cultural and ecological significance- is an increasingly significant topic not only for scholars but for all of us. Theology on the Menu is the first systematic and historical assessment of Christian attitudes to food and its role in shaping Christian identity. David Grumett and Rachel Muers unfold a fascinating history of feasting and fasting, food regulations and resistance to regulation, the symbolism attached to particular foods, the relationship between diet and doctrine, and how food has shaped inter-religious encounters. Everyone interested in Christian approaches to food and diet or seeking to understand how theology can engage fruitfully with everyday life will find this book a stimulus and an inspiration.

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Routledge

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1135188327

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9781135188320

Testimony

Quakerism and Theological Ethics

By: Rachel Muers

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Testimony

Quakerism and Theological Ethics

By: Rachel Muers

This book brings Quaker thought on theological ethics into constructive dialogue with Christian tradition while engaging with key contemporary ethical debates and with wider questions about the public role of church-communities in a post-secular context. The focus for the discussion is the distinctive Quaker concept and practice of ‘testimony’ – understood as a sustained pattern of action and life within and by the community and the individuals within it, in communicative and transformative relation to its context, and located in everyday life. In the first section, Rachel Muers presents a constructive theological account of testimony, drawing on historical and contemporary Quaker sources, that makes explicit its roots in Johannine Christology and pneumatology, as well as its connections with other Quaker “distinctives” such as unprogrammed worship and non-creedalism. She focuses in particular on the character of testimonies as sustained refusals of specific practices and structures, and on the way in which this sustained opposition gives rise to new attitudes and forms of life. Articulating the ongoing relevance of this approach for theology, Rachel Muers engages with the “ethics of witness” in contemporary Protestant theology and with a longer tradition of thought (and debates) about the significance of Christian ascesis. In the second section, she develops this general account through a series of case studies in Quaker testimony, written and practised. She uses each one to explore aspects of the meaning of, and need for, shared and individual testimony.

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SCM Press

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0334046688

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9780334046684

Living for the Future

Theological Ethics for Coming Generations

By: Rachel Muers

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Theological Ethics for Coming Generations

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A&C Black

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0567006441

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Filming the Gods

Religion and Indian Cinema

By: Rachel Dwyer

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Filming the Gods

Religion and Indian Cinema

By: Rachel Dwyer

Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India's other cinemas. Rachel Dwyer's lively discussion encompasses the mythological genre which continues India's long tradition of retelling Hindu myths and legends, drawing on sources such as the national epics of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana; the devotional genre, which flourished at the height of the nationalist movement in the 1930s and 40s; and the films made in Bombay that depict India's Islamicate culture, including the historical, the courtesan film and the 'Muslim social' genre. Filming the Gods also examines the presence of the religious across other genres and how cinema represents religious communities and their beliefs and practices. It draws on interviews with film stars, directors and producers as well as popular fiction, fan magazines and the films themselves. As a result, Filming the Gods is a both a guide to the study of film in religious culture as well as a historical overview of Indian religious film.

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Routledge

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1134380690

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The Text in Play

Experiments in Reading Scripture

By: Mike Higton,Rachel Muers

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The Text in Play

Experiments in Reading Scripture

By: Mike Higton,Rachel Muers

In The Text in Play, Mike Higton and Rachel Muers conduct a series of experiments in the reading of Scripture. They experiment in the first place with a form of Christian theological exegesis of the Bible that they call "serious play"--a form of reading beyond the literal sense that is nevertheless serious about the ethical, historical, and textual responsibilities of the reader. They experiment in the second place with the practice called Scriptural Reasoning--in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims read and argue over their respective Scriptures together--and argue that the practice makes deep sense for "seriously playful" Christian readers. This constitutes the most detailed and developed account of Scriptural Reasoning yet published.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610978595

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9781610978590

Keeping God's Silence

Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication

By: Rachel Muers

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Keeping God's Silence

Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication

By: Rachel Muers

This ground-breaking book provides a new perspective on Christian practices of silence. An original, theologically informed work, written by a significant Quaker theologian Provides a new perspective on Christian practices of silence Considers the theological and ethical significance of these practices Relates silence, listening and communication to major contemporary issues Takes forward theological engagement with feminist thought Contributes to ongoing research into the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405137711

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Modern Theology

A Critical Introduction

By: Rachel Muers,Mike Higton

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A Critical Introduction

By: Rachel Muers,Mike Higton

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Theology on the Menu

Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet

By: David Grumett,Rachel Muers

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Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet

By: David Grumett,Rachel Muers

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1135188319

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Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

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Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

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Living for the Future

Living for the Future

Modern Theology

Modern Theology

Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Theology on the Menu

Theology on the Menu

Testimony

Testimony

Living for the Future

Living for the Future

Filming the Gods

Filming the Gods

The Text in Play

The Text in Play

Keeping God's Silence

Keeping God's Silence

Modern Theology

Modern Theology

Theology on the Menu

Theology on the Menu

Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

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