RT Article
T1 Creation as Sacrament: An Orthodox Contribution to the Cultivation of an Ecological Ethos
JF Communio viatorum
VO 66
IS 1
SP 69
OP 81
A1 Coman, Viorel ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/192040693X
AB This article looks at the contribution of Dumitru Stăniloae’s theology of the sacramentality of creation for the cultivation of an ecological sensitivity, attending in particular to his ideas that the entire created reality is God’s gift to humanity and that the cosmos has a mysterious or apophatic dimension. This helps in developing a Christian ecology whose central idea is of non-possession or non-domestication of the world by human beings. Understanding the world thus is seen as world-affirming and a reminder that creation cannot be treated as mere utility, property, or raw material, but is always also a vehicle of grace and spiritualization.
K1 Apophaticism
K1 Grace
K1 klíčová slova: Dumitru Stăniloae
K1 Sacramentality
K1 Theological Anthropology
K1 theology of creation
DO 10.14712/30296374.2024.7