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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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SOCIAL JUSTICE: St. Francis and the Integrity of Creation
By St Mary Administrator @ 11:59 AM :: 243 Views ::  :: Social Justice
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In a paper entitled “Covenant and Creation”, Wesley Granberg Michaelson writes this about the integrity of creation, something profoundly understood by St. Francis:
“If the Christian tradition is to play some part in upholding the integrity of the creation in our own time, we must recognize the depth of our challenge. Rather than simply acknowledging immediate environmental problems that need remedy, our task is confronting the basic modern mindset that spawns and rationalizes environmental ruin. This requires nothing short of the power of the gospel.
“The message of new life in Jesus Christ overturns the values and cultural assumptions that lie at the foundation of modern ecological ruin. We are called to conversion, such conversion frees us from the ways of thought and life that are hastening the earth’s destruction and calls us through the Spirit to live in ways that protect and nourish the gift of God’s creation. The power of the gospel beckons us to confront the economic, cultural and technological assumptions that are destroying life on earth and offer a vision for upholding the creation.”
St. Francis believed that preserving the integrity of creation was connected to all of life and that new life in Christ could restore a healing relationship to the earth. On October 4 and thereafter, may we too celebrate this relationship! |
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