{"id":1584,"date":"2020-06-14T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/?page_id=1584"},"modified":"2024-11-25T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:39:56","slug":"should-the-church-love-the-gods-world-a-response-to-the-cape-town-commitment-point-seven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/should-the-church-love-the-gods-world-a-response-to-the-cape-town-commitment-point-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the Church Love the (God\u2019s) World? A Response to The Cape Town Commitment Point Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original scientific article<br \/>\n<a class=\"normal\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32862\/k.14.1.3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32862\/k.14.1.3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Should the Church Love the (God\u2019s) World? A Response to The Cape Town Commitment Point Seven<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory S. Thellman<\/strong> ; Visoko evan\u0111eosko teolo\u0161ko u\u010dili\u0161te, Osijek<\/p>\n<table id=\"downloads\" style=\"width: 99.7436%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 590px;\"><a title=\"Should the Church Love the (God\u2019s) World? A Response to The Cape Town Commitment Point Seven\" href=\"https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/file\/345019\">Fulltext: <strong>pdf<\/strong>\u00a0(239 KB)<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 188px;\">pg. 53-71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"al-j\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nThis paper is a response to point seven, sub-points A) and B) of The Cape Town Commitment (TCTC), and attempts to answer the question \u201cis love the proper Christian response to the nonhuman creation, and\/or to human nations and culture?\u201d Based on a summary of the concepts of \u201clove\u201d and the \u201cworld\u201d in the biblical texts, it is shown that the biblical concept of \u201clove\u201d strongly emphasizes heartfelt and caring commitment for another within human relationships and divine-human relationships. The \u201cworld\u201d in scripture can be construed in positive, neutral or negative senses, depending on the term and context, and Christians find themselves both in a fallen creation which awaits liberation and within human nations and cultures in a state of sin and rebellion against God. While the Bible never commands believers to love the nonhuman creation or collective human entities like nations and cultures, Christians may yet appropriate love for God and neighbor through their attentive care of creation and through their contribution to culture in a way that glorifies God. In these ways, Christians may \u201clove\u201d creation and culture, but only in a contingent sense with their foundational love focused on God and neighbor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nChristianity;\u00a0love;\u00a0world;\u00a0creation;\u00a0culture;\u00a0new creation<\/p>\n<p class=\"al-j\"><strong>Hr\u010dak ID:\u00a0<\/strong>237566<\/p>\n<p class=\"al-j\"><strong>URI<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"normal\" href=\"https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/237566\">https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/237566<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original scientific article https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32862\/k.14.1.3 Should the Church Love the (God\u2019s) World? A Response to The Cape Town Commitment Point Seven Gregory S. Thellman ; Visoko evan\u0111eosko teolo\u0161ko u\u010dili\u0161te, Osijek Fulltext: pdf\u00a0(239 KB) pg. 53-71 Abstract This paper is a response to point seven, sub-points A) and B) of The Cape Town Commitment (TCTC), and attempts&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/should-the-church-love-the-gods-world-a-response-to-the-cape-town-commitment-point-seven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1584\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kairosen.bizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}