Open AccessHoly Grandeur Enough for All
Author(s) -
Novriana Gloria Hutagalung
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
gema teologika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2502-7751
pISSN - 2502-7743
DOI - 10.21460/gema.2017.22.317
Subject(s) - creatures , beauty , christianity , forgetting , environmental ethics , religiosity , natural (archaeology) , criticism , value (mathematics) , philosophy , aesthetics , history , theology , art , literature , archaeology , linguistics , machine learning , computer science
Natural degradation is not merely a competition between ecology and economy. The destruction of nature is closely related to religiosity and human relationships to fellow human beings, the environment, and God. Ecotheology becomes a self-criticism of the classical doctrines of Christianity, which are considered to exalt humankind as the "crown of creation" and marginalize non-human creatures as commodities of economic value for human interests. Ecotheology seems to have talked too often about damaged nature, or even extinct plants or animals, and forgetting the other side of the bountiful biodiversities, which is the holy beauty of nature. Ecotheology needs to ponder that God, the Holy Grandeur, who manifests the cosmic wisdom in the beauty of all creation, is enough for all.