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The Lost Meaning(s) of the Seventh Day

The Lost Meaning(s) of the Seventh Day. A-level Amphitheater October 29, 2011 sktonstad@llu.edu. 1. The World as We Find It. Crowded World. World population by the billions

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The Lost Meaning(s) of the Seventh Day

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  1. The Lost Meaning(s) of the Seventh Day A-level Amphitheater October 29, 2011 sktonstad@llu.edu

  2. 1. The World as We Find It

  3. Crowded World • World population by the billions • 1 billion - 1804 2 billion - 1927 3 billion - 1959 4 billion - 1974 5 billion - 1987 6 billion - 1999* 7 billion - 2011 • *Year when the milestone was observed by the United Nations. • Source: United Nations Population Fund

  4. At 7 Billion • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44933119/ns/world_news/from/toolbar • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44933119/ns/world_news/#.TqgwyrL7bSg

  5. The World as They Find It • Food shortage, damage to environment • Access to information technology, education • Women's rights and gender inequality • Climate change • Aging • Water • Energy

  6. The World as I Find It • Alienated from the earth • Alienated from non-human creation • Alienated from each other • Alienated from the Jews • Alienated from God

  7. Alienation from the Earth Origen Descartes 200 1650

  8. Alienation from the Earth • “This separation of the soul from the body and from the world is no disease of the fringe, no aberration, but a fracture that runs through the mentality of religion like a geologic fault. And this rift in the mentality of religion continues to characterize the modern mind, no matter how secular or worldly it becomes.” Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 108.

  9. Unwanted World • “In the inmost depths of thy soul, thou wouldst rather there were no world, for where the world is, there is matter, and where there is matter, there is weight and resistance, space and time, limitation and necessity. Nevertheless, there is a world and there is matter. How dost thou escape from the dilemma of this contradiction? How dost thou expel the world from thy consciousness, that it may not disturb thee in the beatitude of the unlimited soul? Only by making the world itself a product of will, by giving it an arbitrary existence, always hovering between existence and non-existence, always awaiting its annihilation.” Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), The Essence of Christianity (New York: Harper & Row, 1957), 110.

  10. Alienation from Non-Human Creation • The world’s total meat supply was 71 million tons in 1961. In 2007, it was estimated to be 284 million tons. Per capita consumption has more than doubled over that period. (In the developing world, it rose twice as fast, doubling in the last 20 years.) World meat consumption is expected to double again by 2050, which one expert, Henning Steinfeld of the United Nations, says is resulting in a “relentless growth in livestock production.”

  11. Alienation from Non-Human Creation

  12. Contributors to Global Warming

  13. Meat Consumption and CO2 Emissions

  14. A Candle Burning at Both Ends

  15. Alienated from Each Other

  16. World Armaments

  17. Alienated from the Jews

  18. Alienation from the Jews:Anti-Judaism through the Ages CHRYSOSTOM BLACK DEATH LUTHER CRUSADES 100 400 1000 1350 1500

  19. Luther on the Jews • “What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? … I shall give you my sincere advice: First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians.” - Martin Luther, “On the Jews and Their Lies” (1543)

  20. Alienated from God • “The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in a Monte Carlo game. Is it surprising that, like the person who has just made a million at the casino, we should feel strange and a little unreal?” - Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity , trans. Austryn Wainhouse (London: Collins, 1970), 137.

  21. The Sabbath and the World as We Find It • Alienated from the earth • Alienated from non-human creation • Alienated from each other • Alienated from the Jews • Alienated from God • Does the Sabbath have anything to offer this world?

  22. The Sabbath and the World • Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. (Gen 2:1-3 NRS)

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