Polecenie panowania nad stworzeniem (Rdz 1,26-28) w ekologicznej hermeneutyce Biblii

• Authors: Tomasz Twardziłowski

Title variants

EN

The Command to Rule over Creation (cf. Gen 1:26-28) in the Ecological Hermeneutics of the Bible

Abstracts

EN

The divine command given to a man (cf. Gen 1:26-28) has been a matterof concern in biblical scholarship for centuries. In the last decades, theologians and biblical scholars have tried to re-read this passage in view of the environmental crisis. This paper starts with an overview of the development of a new proposal – the ecological hermeneutics of the Bible. Particular paragraphs present results of the application of various ecological hermeneutical forms to the passage Gen 1:26-28: apologetic, radical and revisionist (neo-orthodox). The apologetic form perceives the text of the Bible as a friendly one to the environment and develops the idea of responsible human stewardship.It emphasizes the role of man as a custodian of creation. The radicalform, by contrast, perceives the same texts as infected anthropocentrically.The order of command over creation introduces enmity between man andnature that is disclosed through exploitation and injustice towards the earthfrom the part of humankind. Therefore, it proposes a reconstruction of thetext retrieving the voice of the earth. Representatives of a revisionist formclaim instead that the passage Gen 1:26-28 re-read in the context of Gen 1-9does not allow people to exploit the natural environment and it criticizespeoples’ behavior towards creation. The analysis shows that reading thedivine command of human dominion in Gen 1:26-28 in a hermeneuticallight considering the circumstances and specificity of the biblical text meansneither the justification of the degradation of the natural environment, northe refraining from gaining benefits from its natural resources.

Keywords

PL

ekologia; ekologiczna hermeneutyka Biblii; Rdz 1; 26-28

EN

Ecology; Ecological hermeneutics of the Bible; Gen 1; 26-28

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Collectanea Theologica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 87
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-24

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Tomasz Twardziłowski

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/ct.2017.87.1.01

Biblioteka Nauki

2035291