Folia Theologica et Canonica 6. 28/20 (2017)
SACRA THEOLOGIA - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem.. Encyclical letter «Laudato si’» as ‘constitution’ on responsibility of global sustainability
50 SZABOLCS ANZELM SZUROMI, O.PRAEM. Our Catholic image of human being is based on the Creation's description in the Bible. Only briefly, I would like to call your attention on Genesis 1: 1-31 and the text most significant statements7: “( 1 ) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (3) Then God said, «Let there be light»', and there was light. (6) Then God said, «Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.» (9) Then God said, «Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear»', and it was so. (11) Then God said, «Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them»', and it was so. (14) Then God said, «Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years»', (20) Then God said, «Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.» (22) God blessed them, saying, «Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.» (24) Then God said, «Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind»; and it was so. (26) Then God said, «Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.» (27) God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (28) God blessed them; and God said to them, «Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.» (29) Then God said, «Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; (30) and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food»', and it was so.” 7 The English text is from The New American Bible ( 1970).
