Kultūros Teologijos Paradigma: Nuo Sukūrimo Apokalipsės Link
Paradigm of Theology of Culture: From Creation to Apocalypse

Summary/Abstract: Theology cannot be separated from culture. Culture is a ground of humanity. Holy Scripture can be considered as a foundation for a theology of culture. Already in Genesis a creative process is going on when the first man gives names for different creatures. In such a way the first man continues the creative job started by God. In the New Testament we also find some places where Apostle Paul uses texts of his coeval writers and their interpretations in his speeches and letters. Already these facts allow talking about theology of culture. According to P. Tillich and A. Maceina, having started a creative process, God did not finish it to the outmost but left man to finish it. That is why a man is so creative. During the process of his creation, man was granted divine creative power. In the course of history, man was designated for creation and employed his creative potency to lay a road leading to transfiguration and transformation. Upon man’s creative intentions – good or bad – depend when transfiguration comes. God and man’s creative intentions raise spirit and anticipate God’s victory and transformation whereas bad intentions remove all that.

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