Everybody’s talking at me…
Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised
I’ve been intrigued that everyone seems to be talking about New Creation at the moment (let’s try, for example, Tom Wright, John Piper, Terry Virgo, Chris Wright, Rob Bell – yes, I know that’s not everyone, but it’s a good mix & you have access to Google too…).
Presumably we haven’t all finally made it the end of Revelation, so why the current focus? I’ve had a few theories floating round — post-modernism? environmental issues? Today I came across this by Douglas Moo (quoting Richard Bauckham), which fits it together interestingly…
…the perspective of our own culture may also legitimately become a lens through which we freshly read the Scriptures and formulate their message in terms of biblical theology. As Richard Bauckham argues, the environmental crisis has helped to free us from modernistic ideologies about nature. And so we can now “read the New Testament differently. We can recognize that, in continuity with the Old Testament tradition, it assumes that humans live in mutuality with the rest of God’s creation, that salvation history and eschatology do not lift humans out of nature but heal precisely their distinctive relationship with the rest of nature.”
Tags: culture, eschatology
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