Rodney Clapp Citas

• La mayordomía sacerdotal sugiere que la creación no es sólo para nosotros, que tiene una finalidad independiente de los usos que podamos hacer de ella. Toda la creación -humana y no humana- existe en última instancia para Dios y para alabanza de Dios.

  Rodney Clapp

  Independent, Environmental, Purpose

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• What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

  Rodney Clapp

  Worry, People, Historical

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• It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.

  Rodney Clapp

  Appreciate, Desire, Benefits

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• Significativamente, Dios en Génesis 1 pronuncia que el resto de la creación es "buena" antes de crear a la humanidad. El salmista y los profetas Isaías, Jeremías y Ezequiel pueden hablar de montañas, árboles, sol y luna alabando a Dios. A diferencia de un complejo de oficinas o un gimnasio, que carecen de valor si no los habitan personas, la creación puede glorificar y deleitar a Dios al margen de la presencia humana.

  Rodney Clapp

  Moon, Ezekiel, Office

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