by CCW | 8 May 2009 13:57
There is something quite special and wonderful about the Easter season. The Scripture readings at Holy Communion during the forty days of Easter assist us in our understanding of the radical nature of the Resurrection. It changes everything. It changes our outlook on life and death, our outlook on ourselves and one another. It does so by offering us a larger view of our humanity and the world. We are more, though not less than our bodies. And the world is God’s world.
The world exists for God and not simply for us. This goes a long ways towards countering the dreaded and dreadful fatalisms of our world and day. We are only too much aware of the power of our technocratic reason – the reason which expresses itself in power over nature and over ourselves. Reason, itself the image of God in us, is viewed as an instrument of the will to power. This results in the exploitation of nature rather than the nurture of nature and it also results in the destruction of nature. Both the exploitation of nature and our fears about our destruction of nature have to do with our assumptions about human reason seen as an instrument of the will. Both viewpoints are destructive of our humanity, too.
The Scriptures counter these approaches by recalling us to our creatureliness and to our place in the order of creation and by reminding us of God’s larger purposes for his creation and for our humanity. Perhaps, the poet, Thomas Traherne, puts one of the themes of Eastertide best when he says “you never love the world aright until you love it in God.” The world which God cares for, is the world in which we live. The Resurrection teaches us to care for one another and for the world which God cares for.
Fr. David Curry
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