Remembering the Creator Spirit in the State of Ecological Crisis
| dc.contributor.author | Kiianesh, Antony | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-07T08:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-01-07T08:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The creation accounts of the Book of Genesis presents to us a cosmos that is created out of chaos and presents a picture of it as orderly and balanced (Gen. 1:25). Genesis also shows us that human beings and animals were living in a state of harmony and communion. God assigned the entire living world to the stewardship of humanity and commanded human beings to care for nature (Gen. 1:28).The entrance of sin into the world due to human disobedience to the will of God resulted in the rapture of this communion and brought about disharmony, suffering and death in the world. From then on the power of sin has occupied the central stage of history and human beings have plundered the resources of the earth to satisfy their greed and selfish motives. And the consequence of such selfishness is what we see in our days as the environmental crisis and ecological deterioration. It is the result of humanity's forgetfulness of the Creator Spirit and Its indwelling presence in the cosmos. In this paper my attempt is to point out the relationship that exists between the created world and the Creator Spirit. The first chapter begins with the definition of ecology and the ecosystem. From the basic understanding of these two fundamental terms an analysis of the problem of ecological deterioration follows, and here a proper description of the problem is presented. The second and most important point in the first chapter is the exploration of the causes of the environmental crisis. There are a number of causes that are dealt with in this paper, and they are mainly anthropological, theological and pneumatological. Effort has been made to point out the root of the crisis as spiritual, and in this regard the concern has been to point out that it is the humanity's greed, provoked by the element of sin, that makes it to forget the divine spirit who indwells the 1 cosmos and gives life to all and sustains them in communion. The crisis is because we do not recognize our place in the universe of God's creatures. The second chapter deals with the Holy Spirit in its relation to creation. Attempt has been made to rediscover the role of Spirit in Creation and to identify the Spirit as the Breath of life and as God's active and vital presence in the universe. The divine spirit is presented as the new beginner, the principle of communion, the healer of ecological wounds, the one who heals, sanctifies and restores creation to its original form of harmony. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/1110 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Tangaza University College | en_US |
| dc.subject | Creator Spirit | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ecological Crisis | en_US |
| dc.title | Remembering the Creator Spirit in the State of Ecological Crisis | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
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