tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post9065341275177952983..comments2023-11-05T07:23:49.530-05:00Comments on Vox clamanti: Isolations, and the Divorce of Creation from ChristianityV and Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13065509512912860551noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-31155940688283580622009-02-19T23:57:00.000-05:002009-02-19T23:57:00.000-05:00Lifespark:Ah, but this dressing/keeping is in the ...Lifespark:<BR/><BR/>Ah, but this dressing/keeping is in the <I>Garden</I>; nowhere is it defined as being part of a postlapsarian vocation. Alternatively, this verse is in the OT. Where is the New Covenant's voicing of this vocation? Etc. ... You get the idea.<BR/><BR/>...<BR/><BR/>Part of my frustration in talking to those who claim the name of Christ about ecology and fit care of Creation lies in the multiplicity of theologies - and how the base assumptions can be so widely different from creed to creed. This is why I highlighted St. Paul: dispensationalist theology (one of the more annoying ones) frequently will nullify teachings in the OT or even the words of Christ Himself, all in the name of different "dispensations."<BR/><BR/>And this is why I come back to commonsense (Don't urinate in the well, etc.) as the best way to address the problem of man's abuse of Creation. I haven't the time nor the inclination to research and rebut the myriad "theological" reasons not to care for our food source, our water source, our air.<BR/><BR/>Victoria: You are most welcome. These things shouldn't need articulation, but such is the world we live in ... what LifeSpark accurately calls the "wretched trajectory of the cultural disorder known as modernity". And these things will need articulation by a heck of a lot of people before the resistant (including a lot of "conservative" Christians) change.<BR/><BR/>I invite you to contribute to this conversation ... the more bloggers, the merrier!<BR/><BR/>Elizabeth: Phillip Sherrard's name has been coming up a lot lately. For that alone I would be interested in reading more from him. But if he touches on this, all the better.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, all.<BR/><BR/>- V.V and Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13065509512912860551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-50034014076354556222009-02-18T21:32:00.000-05:002009-02-18T21:32:00.000-05:00Yes. This is hard - the situation we are in - remi...Yes. This is hard - the situation we are in - remind me to tell you about an essay i read by Phillip Sherrard that touches on this...elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-76088906678911257452009-02-18T16:31:00.000-05:002009-02-18T16:31:00.000-05:00very well articulated thoughts. thank you for thi...very well articulated thoughts. thank you for this.Kassiannihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04761629509670296037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-87728561462974375422009-02-18T13:24:00.000-05:002009-02-18T13:24:00.000-05:00The Bible does mention it. Right from the start. ...The Bible does mention it. Right from the start. Vocational assignment #1 - the first thing God does with man after creating him:<BR/><BR/>Genesis 2:15<BR/>And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.<BR/><BR/>The fall itself is related to subsequent abuse of the material created order(Genesis Chapter 3). Inability to recognize this underlines a good part of the wretched trajectory of the cultural disorder known as modernity.LifeSparkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00139338306042721734noreply@blogger.com