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and He makes people play for His sake. Divine
economy is disclosing the mystery of the Incarnation
of God the Son that incorporates people from
all walks of life. In a broader sense, it accommodates
the entire creation. Covid-19 Pandemic to a
certain extent restored the divine nature - the image
of God - in human beings by forcing them to
serve one another. Divine economy is aimed at
bringing whole humanity under the sovereign
power pf God by calling Him - “Abba”. St. Paul
identifies this as “Freedom” in his letter to the
Galatians. This freedom is eliminating all agonies
and fear from the face of the world.
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Footnote
1
Since the Antonine plague in the Roman Empire,
Christianity had an ethical role. In the medieval times,
that is in 1527 a bubonic plague struck Wittenburg. In
that context Martin Luther refused to leave the city and
the cost for this was the life of his daughter (Clive
Pearson ‘Framing a Theological response to COVID-19
in the presence of the Religious Other’ The Ecumenical
Review 72:5 849-860)
2
Here “salvation” is not just synonym for liberation
of Human being rather it leads to the entire redemption
of whole creations that lost the glory of God by human
being who disobeyed God and committed sin.
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