The Ecology of Creation
“Theologically, the recovery of the lesson to be learned from our belief in God's good creation will mean two things. First, it will mean that we sacrifice our demanding attitude toward God, which may be one of the worst forms of human hybris, religious hybris. We cannot rely on God to bail us...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1970
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Theology today
Year: 1970, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 263-276 |
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| Summary: | “Theologically, the recovery of the lesson to be learned from our belief in God's good creation will mean two things. First, it will mean that we sacrifice our demanding attitude toward God, which may be one of the worst forms of human hybris, religious hybris. We cannot rely on God to bail us out when it is our hybris that has caused the problem. God is patient. He can wait. His major form of punishment, as the Apostle Paul reminds us, is not fire and hell, but his leaving us alone, his ‘giving the sinner over to his own passions and desires.’ God has time. He can wait until we have destroyed our world and ourselves, and he may choose to do so. What we perhaps need after the theologies of hope, is a theology of radical humility which is ready to face this waiting God. Second, it will mean a sacrifice of our present style of life and of the goals we preach for the lives of others.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367002700303 |