{"id":807,"date":"2014-11-24T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=807"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T00:19:23","slug":"theology-of-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/theology-of-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Theology of the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nature,People of every spiritual tradition should explore the heritage of their faith with regard to the human interaction with planet Earth.\u00a0The accusation that the Genesis Creation narrative is responsible for depredation of the earth is false.\u00a0The Bible is theocentric; the idea that \u201cMan is the measure of all things\u201d comes from another source; it has been taken up by some who delighted in the name of Christian, while exploiting and pillaging our natural resources.\u00a0Rethinking priorities is at the beginning of a balanced understanding of the human vocation.<\/p>\n

For decades Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has called attention to the Christian theological vision of our environment.\u00a0Recently his advisor, Archdeacon John Chryssaygis, addressed an ecumenical audience at the University of Alberta.\u00a0See the article, Natural environment honours the divine mystery, says cleric<\/em>, in\u00a0the Western Catholic Reporter<\/em> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People of every spiritual tradition should explore the heritage of their faith with regard to the human interaction with planet Earth.\u00a0The accusation that the Genesis Creation narrative is responsible for depredation of the earth is false.\u00a0The Bible is theocentric; the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enviroment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}