Title: Spirituality of Creation
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As we approach the new year 2002, everyone pursues a new hope and vision. Just as new wine must be put into a new bottle, so we must have a new heart.
To live is to celebrate the day of life in pursuit of beauty and feeling freedom of choice. Life has a spiritual nature that transcends mechanical action. Our age is an age that understands and cares about spirituality beyond the material and spiritual world. So all religious life has to do with the issue of spirituality. The Christian life of faith is also related to the spiritual dimension that gives meaning to life and fundamentally sustains it.
This ultimate concern becomes the existential center of life. This ultimate concern is a spiritual matter that transcends material and spiritual concerns. This ultimate concern is in personal dialogue with the transcendental world. When we personally understand the transcendent world, we encounter the transcendent or the 'living God'. According to the testimony of the Bible, this living God is the Creator God, who created the universe and all things. The world God created is ultimately true, just, and beautiful.
This age demands a new spirituality in the Christian faith. Therefore, the core of Christian spirituality newly discovered in the pursuit of wisdom and survival is creation-centered spirituality. This tradition has until now been a Christian-centered spirituality. It is a core spirituality of Christianity that is older than the Fall/Redemption spirituality. The Fall/Redemption spirituality is the spirituality formed after St. Augustine (354-430). This spirituality did not find God in nature, but in the individual soul. While this tradition has made great contributions, it is true that it has been overly biased. According to Matthew Fox, the creation-oriented tradition has been almost completely forgotten in Western Christianity. It argues that this creation-centered spirituality must be reclaimed for the new age.
Contrasting creation-centered spirituality with fall/redemption spirituality to summarize its core is inspiring. Creative spirituality is more feminine than patriarchal, more aesthetic than ascetic. He welcomes ecstasy and passion, and understands suffering not as the price of sin, but as the suffering of the dissolution of the universe.
In the understanding of the universe, we do not emphasize the principle, but the original blessing. The universe does not begin with sin, but with God's creative power. The core of salvation is also ecological and cosmic beyond egocentrism. What is important is that the soul does not doubt the body as in Augustine's position of doubting the body, but welcomes the body like Eckhart, and the soul loves the body. It is that this spirituality is not elitist that is related to a specific person like the fallen/redemption spirituality, but has a universalistic character that is open to many.
While understanding the cross (via negativa), it emphasizes the coming of the Spirit and co-creation through the resurrection (via positiva). Thus, this spirituality goes beyond the spirituality of the powerful and listens to the passionate appeals of the least in human history through the spirituality of anawim for the powerless.
For example, we can be outraged at the violation of human dignity because by nature humans are created with the image of the living God in them. It is also sad that this suppression of creativity is because humans are creative. In this way, the meaning of the memory of pain can be realized when the memory of joy and original Blessing is premised.
As we enter the new year, we seek a new spirituality. The Bible teaches that for a new age, a true new age will come when we must be refreshed with God's spirit. 'Spirituality' is the true motive of life and the power of love to pursue ultimate interest and courage. We need to gain new strength from the 'Spiritual of Creation' that extends from the beauty of creation, which has the longevity of Christian spirituality. The breath of love of the living God who created the whole universe and all things, this is the essence of the spirituality of creation.
We invite you to the spirituality of God's creation that opens a breakthrough of hope and change from a spirituality centered on repentance and pessimism so far. In the New Year, in the new morning, at this Eucharistic Table, the communal table of the saints and the feast of God's feast, let us celebrate the participation, diversity and openness that are the hallmarks of true life. As we eat and drink the body and blood of the Lord together, we must discover the image of the living God in us. The ethos that makes it possible to eat God (the Eucharist) and become like God (creation realization) is the spirituality of creation.
I hope that the spirituality of creation will always be with us in our lives and the activities of the faith community in the new year. To live is, as Johannes Metz says, to restore an alternative history from the memory of the Passion. This alternative creation of history is possible because of the memory of Wonbok. As we partake of this sacrament together, let's dream of a day when the original restoration is restored and God, humans, and history and the world can enjoy the joy and joy of creation while suffering the reality of the loss of the original restoration. And the sacrament is a meal to celebrate these days ahead of time.
Let's all meditate on the world of creation of soil, grass, insects, and all living things, and dream in the waiting of hope that this world of truth, justice and beauty will come back to today's site.
I wish you all the best in the new year.