The International Ommunities
14Lesson 15: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
The Unity of Human Family: * The biblical accounts of creation bring out the unity of human family and teach that God of Israel is the Lord of history and of the cosmos. * God’s decision to make man in his image and likeness (cf. Gen 1 1:26-27) gives the human being a unique dignity that extends to all generations (cf. Gen. 5) and throughout the entire Earth (cf. Gen 10). * (indicated in the book of Genesis) Human being was not created in isolation but with context, an integral part of which those living spaces that ensure his freedom (the garden), various possibilities for food (the trees of the garden), work (the command to cultivate) and above all, community (the gift of someone who is like himself) (cf. Gen. 2:8-24) * Unity is not to be built on the force of arms, terror or abuse of power; rather, the result of “supreme model of unity” a reflection of the intimate life of God, one God in three (3) Persons… what we Christians mean by the word “Communion;” the achievement of the “moral cultural force of freedom”.
On free trade
Social justice requires that it restores to the participants certain equality of opportunity. This equality is a long term objective, but to reach it we must begin now to create true equality in discussions and negotiations.
Peace: Fruit of Justice and Love (CSDC 494)
Peace is a value and universal duty founded on a rational moral order of society that has its roots in God himself, “the first source of being, the essential truth and the supreme good.”
Peace is not merely the absence of war, nor can it be reduced solely to maintenance of balance of power between enemies.
Peace is the fruit of justice (cf. Is 32: 17), understood in the broad sense as the respect for the equilibrium of every dimension of the human person.
Peace is also the fruit of love. “True and lasting peace is more a matter of love than of justice, because the function of justice is merely to do away with
The Unity of Human Family: * The biblical accounts of creation bring out the unity of human family and teach that God of Israel is the Lord of history and of the cosmos. * God’s decision to make man in his image and likeness (cf. Gen 1 1:26-27) gives the human being a unique dignity that extends to all generations (cf. Gen. 5) and throughout the entire Earth (cf. Gen 10). * (indicated in the book of Genesis) Human being was not created in isolation but with context, an integral part of which those living spaces that ensure his freedom (the garden), various possibilities for food (the trees of the garden), work (the command to cultivate) and above all, community (the gift of someone who is like himself) (cf. Gen. 2:8-24) * Unity is not to be built on the force of arms, terror or abuse of power; rather, the result of “supreme model of unity” a reflection of the intimate life of God, one God in three (3) Persons… what we Christians mean by the word “Communion;” the achievement of the “moral cultural force of freedom”.
On free trade
Social justice requires that it restores to the participants certain equality of opportunity. This equality is a long term objective, but to reach it we must begin now to create true equality in discussions and negotiations.
Peace: Fruit of Justice and Love (CSDC 494)
Peace is a value and universal duty founded on a rational moral order of society that has its roots in God himself, “the first source of being, the essential truth and the supreme good.”
Peace is not merely the absence of war, nor can it be reduced solely to maintenance of balance of power between enemies.
Peace is the fruit of justice (cf. Is 32: 17), understood in the broad sense as the respect for the equilibrium of every dimension of the human person.
Peace is also the fruit of love. “True and lasting peace is more a matter of love than of justice, because the function of justice is merely to do away with