Letter & Spirit, Vol. 3: The Hermeneutic of Continuity Christ, Kingdom, and Creation by St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

Author:St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781931018463
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Published: 2007-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, commented on this passage vis-à-vis Genesis 1:

To understand the account of creation properly, one has to read the Sabbath ordinances of the Torah. Then everything becomes clear. The Sabbath is the sign of the covenant between God and man; it sums up the inward essence of the covenant. If this is so, then we can now define the intention of the account of creation as follows: creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man. . . . If, then, everything is directed to the covenant, it is important to see that the covenant is a relationship: God's gift of himself to man, but also man's response to God. Man's response to the God who is good to him is love, and loving God means worshipping him. If creation is meant to be a space for the covenant, the place where God and man meet one another, then it must be thought of as a space for worship.48

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