Toward a missiology that begins with creation  

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Coorilos, Metropolitan Geevarghese Mor

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Review of Mission vol. 100 no. 393 (Nov. 2011), page 310.

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In the face of the environmental crises that threaten all of life, I first review how the WCC focus on creation emerged. I then explore what it would mean for mission theology to turn to God in creation, moving from a dominating to a kenotic "down to earth" missiology that is rooted in the earthliness of creation, there finding God's grace and healing. This is especially poignant for Dalit and Indigenous People in India who are considered of the earth (mud), and for the filling and keeping of creation that is our biblical mandate. (1) ********** In 1982, Alice Walker sounded an alarm in a significant speech she delivered in San Francisco: Over the pandemic condition of human greed and wanton consumption hangs a curse, the curse of total annihilation, a curse we set in motion when we exploit and destroy instead of help and heal.... But if by some miracle, and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living thing (and everything is alive) will save humanity. And we are not saved yet. Only justice can stop a curse. (2) The enormous environmental predicament that humanity faces today is cogently reflected in these words. Climate change, global warming, deforestation, desertification, destruction of land, water and biodiversity, pollution and so on, pose grave threats to the survival of all forms of life. Humanity is on the brink of an abyss. Mission theology cannot ignore these concerns because missio Dei encompasses the entire creation of God. Of all the doctrines that have been drawn upon to develop missiological paradigms, seldom has it been the doctrine of creation. Here I will consider the doctrine of creation, as recorded in the biblical creation accounts, and its implications for an environmentally relevant missiology.

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