5. Organic Farming
BIBLICAL & THEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
“More than being just the planter and
reaper, man is the Steward of Creation”
- “Subdue the earth…dominion over the earth”… (Gen. 1:28)
- It is not an absolute power or freedom to “use and misuse” the natural world. (Gen. 2:16-17)When it comes to the use of the natural world, man is subject to both
- physical/biological and moral laws…
(John Paul II, On Social Concern)
- Man as a social being, that is the responsibility for one’s actions extend to the consequences those actions have on other people… “No man is an island”
- Man has the right to live in a dignified manner (befitting manner)
- Development cannot ignore both the needs of man and nature and the effects of indiscriminate industrialization and progress.
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