Title: New World, New Relationship
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But in reality, the history we have lived has divided the world into dualism. However, the dualism was not simply to divide or differentiate, but to demean or discriminate against one another. This was the case with the dualism of men and women and the dualism of black and white. Power and dominion also suppressed people in this sense. However, quantum theory rejects such dualism and speaks of the wholeness that we should pursue. The Christian worldview is also here. Look at the proclamation of Isaiah. In Isaiah 35, he begins: "Rejoice, you dry land and desert. Let my joy blossom, you wasteland. . . . But the situation was not like that at all. This is calling for a major change. It saw a new world opened up in the midst of darkness, oppression, and frustration. That is how Isaiah is singing the historical reversal that people should achieve the perfection of the world by revealing the glory of God in the dark history, not in the form of people.
The words of Jesus, which he commanded to preach to John the Baptist, who was imprisoned, are more clearly looking forward to a new history. The changing world, where the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf and even the dead come to life, speak of a radically revolutionary situation. The proclamation of Jesus made while John was imprisoned is truly shocking. The way we should go, that way, John was the one who paved the way for us before. Let us see the world we await today through Jesus' proclamation to John in prison.
The 8th WCC General Assembly closes today in Harare. Dr. Raiser, the general secretary of WCC, explains the new ecumenical relationship with the word Network before the General Assembly. In other words, the new relationship with the Roman Catholic Church and numerous Pentecostal churches, which WCC has not yet established a relationship with, cannot be changed by structure or organization. So, he intends to propose a role through Network, that is, practical joint solidarity. Because the new world depends on how to build a communal relationship that complements and cooperates with each other. Solidarity here is the inevitable way and method to solve the most dire challenges facing the world: from external debt to poverty, war and famine, and to achieve human dignity.
The 20th century we have lived in has always been the 'logic of the table' and 'the logic of power'. There is a story like this in Van Eden's Iranian fairy tale. A father and son were passing by and saw mushrooms growing by the side of the road. The father points at the mushroom with his wand and tells his son, "That's a poisonous mushroom." Poisonous mushrooms were a surprise. Then ask the other mushroom next to it. "Am I a poisonous mushroom?" a friend says "No, you're not poisonous, you're a good friend to me. That's what people say." A person's judgment is determined by whether it can be eaten or not. That is the 'table logic' and the 'logic of power'. Poisonous mushrooms only have poison to preserve themselves, but not poison that harms others. But we only talk about the ontology of eat or eat. Here's how to live together, that is, living together without eating what can be eaten is ultimately changing the world of edible power. I think the harmony between the strong and the weak, the excess and the lack, and the many and the few is the wisdom of Network.
The new world is a world of harmony. It should be a world of cooperation and sharing. That is a new path that will soon give us. The path to wholeness will be a world in which each leans on each other, the whole wraps around the parts, and is internally connected and living together.