Professional paper
THEOLOGICAL EMPHASIS AT THE MEETING IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Valentin Pozaić
; Institutum Studiorum Philosophici et Theologici Societatis Jesu, Zagreb
Abstract
Over the last two decades the environmental problems have not been decreasing, quite the opposite. The only success being the increase of the public interest in the difficulties as well as the development of the conscience of responsibility. The basic question seems to be the motivation to change the mentality and behaviour in all of us, but particularly in the people responsible for planning the future development. The Christian person's moving according to his basic belief that God is the wise Creator of everything; he considers that man, made to resemble Him, should wisely and lovingly manage the world confided on to Him. The believer knows he is not and cannot be the absolute and egotistic lord, but is given temporarily the power to rule the world and is responsible for his own fate and the fate of this world, and will one day have to answer to Him for it.
Keywords
anthropocentrism; development; ecophylia; moral transformation; solidarity; war
Hrčak ID:
138759
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Publication date:
15.7.1992.
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