부산대학교 도서관

Life on Earth has long been plagued by global calamities: pandemics, environmental disasters, climate change, and species extinctions. Humans have been witnesses and even victims of some of these; too often, we have contributed to the problem. Some people draw a direct causal link between those catastrophes and the third chapter of Genesis: our sinful nature and original sin. But perhaps we should also consider drawing another link coming from the first chapter of Genesis in which human beings are commanded to subdue and have dominion over a very good creation that had change, innovation, exploitation, and even death built into it. Humans were not yet up to that task: we were never omnipotent nor omniscient. But God wanted us to learn how to fill that role, and Jesus again redirected us into it when he inaugurated the arrival of the Kingdom of God on Earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]