생태적 삶을 위한 기독교교육：매튜 팍스(M. Fox)의 창조영성을 중심으로

Abstract

Ecological suffering is common to all parts of the globe and all species on the earth. In this context, this study is initiated by the need for living on ecological life from the perspective of christian education. Thomas Berry suggests that the earth is a medium of the revelation of God, Salle Mcfague takes up the position that theological imagination, emotion, and new language for post– modern society is needs. Lonardo Boff contends that ecology has to do with the relation, interaction, and dialogue of all living creatures (whether alive or not) among themselves and with all that exists. This includes not only nature but culture and society (human ecology, social ecology, and so on). From an ecological viewpoint everything that exists, co exists. We need to emphasize the importance of a correct understanding of creation spirituality that have been withering since the theology of Augustin, the so–called, fall/redemption theologies. This paper focuses on four way for a christian education of creation spirituality, in other words, the via positiva, the via negativa, the via creativa, and the via transformativa. The via positiva is a way of tasting the beauties and cosmic death of creation, which means us and everything else. To put it concretely, it is a christian education to give an answer to God’s hospitality in the creation world. The via negativa opens us to our divine depths and teaches us that the depth of nothingness is directly related to the experience of everythingness. We learn we are cosmic beings not only in our joy and ecstasy but also in contemplation of pain, sorrow, emptiness, and darkness. The via creativa explores that creativity is a cosmic energy, cosmic birthing itself. In other words, art is the basic form of meditation in the creation–centered tradition. With art as meditation, we truly listen to the cosmos within us and around us and give birth to the ongoing cosmogenesis of our world and worlds. With art as meditation, creation as blessing is recovered and our trust in letting go is affirmed. The via transformativa challenges us to be transformers not merely of structures but surely of religious ones as well. In the interest of creation spirituality, The compassion in christian education is the requirements of the via transformativa