Salvation for All Creation: The Meaning of the Atonement In Colossians 1: 15-23 from Mosehe’s Perspective and the Implication for Eco-Theology in the Protestant Church in Southeast Sulawesi

Abstract

The Protestant Church in Southeast Sulawesi (GEPSULTRA) is placed by God in an area where the level of environmental damage is massive, due to mining activities by state-owned and multinational mining companies. But the Church is "silent" in that context. This attitude is strongly influenced by the soteriological view that places nature outside the work of salvation. GEPSULTRA must develop ecotheology/soteriology by using the local wisdom of the Tolaki people. What is the meaning of the atonement of Christ in Colossians 1: 15-23 from the perspective of the mosehe ceremony in Southeast Sulawesi? In the mosehe rite, the pattern of order is found as follows: metanoia (guilty of disharmony), catharsis (efforts towards harmony) and paripatia (creating harmony). With this pattern, reconciliation is understood as reconciliation which is not only personal reconciliation, but also includes cosmic reconciliation. God's redemption or reconciliation is reconciliation for all of creation and at the same time a recreation of all creation.