scholarly journals Misi Ekologis: Memaknai Ulang Misi Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia di Tengah Bencana Alam dan Krisis Ekologi

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Heri Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Union With God ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe mission will always change. This change occurs because of a shift in the mission paradigm in line with the context. The mission is not anymore understood and defined in a traditional, exclusive, and singular way, otherwise the mission needs to be modified to be more open, inclusive, and have multiple meanings. In fact, the mission will always follow its context and locality. The mission of the ecological vocation of the church is needed by the world amid the global ecological crisis and various natural disasters that occured at this time. One of factors that causes ecology crises and natural disasters is natural damaged. It is caused by human who does exploitation to the nature massively. Theologically, the church is called to work on God’s kingdom mission as a work of salvation for the world. The mission of salvation is not only for humans but also for whole of creation as a universal union with God. In implementing this ecological mission, Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia through the Mennonite Diakonia Service (MDS) have participated in carrying out various forms of the church’s mission, including ecological, as a church integral mission to overcome crisis and natural disasters in Indonesia. AbstrakMisi akan selalu mengalami perubahan. Perubahan ini terjadi karena adanya pergeseran paradigma misi seiring dengan konteksnya. Misi tidak lagi dipahami dan didefinisikan secara tradisional, eksklusif, dan tunggal. Sebaliknya, misi perlu dimodifikasi agar lebih terbuka, inklusif, dan memiliki banyak arti. Faktanya, misi itu akan selalu mengikuti konteks dan lokalitasnya. Misi panggilan ekologi gereja sangat dibutuhkan oleh dunia di tengah krisis ekologi global dan beragam bencana alam yang terjadi saat ini. Salah satu faktor yang menyebabkan krisis ekologi dan bencana alam adalah kerusakan alam yang terjadi berbagai tempat. Ini disebabkan oleh manusia yang melakukan eksploitasi terhadap alam secara besar-besaran. Secara teologis, gereja dipanggil untuk mengerjakan misi kerajaan Allah sebagai karya keselamatan bagi dunia. Maka, misi keselamatan itu bukan hanya bagi manusia tetapi juga bagi seluruh ciptaan sebagai kesatuan universal dengan Tuhan. Dalam menjalankan misi ekologis, Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia melalui Mennonite Diakonia Service (MDS) turut serta menjalankan berbagai bentuk misi gereja, termasuk ekologis, sebagai misi integral gereja untuk mengatasi krisis ekologi dan bencana alam di Indonesia.

scholarly journals Manifesting the Sacred: John La Farge’s The Lampbearer as a Model for Catholic Presence in the World

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin LaBadie
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Present Patient ◽  
American Artist ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
Union With God ◽  
The Church

What does it mean for the Church to be in the world? In this paper, I propose that it means for the Church to be sacred, i.e., all Catholics are called to live sacredly. How is the sacred defined? To answer this question, I look to the American artist, John La Farge (1835-1910), whose works are currently being displayed at Boston College's McMullen Museum. The exhibition examines La Farge's "lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred." Given this, I offer a theological reflection on La Farge's painting of the Wise Virgin in order to elucidate what it means to live sacredly: being in tension between the transcendent and the imminent. In other words, to live sacredly means to be attentive, patient, and faithful to the ultimate coming of God's kingdom, yet also to be present, patient, and concerned with the practical worldly challenges of today. This sacredness begins to manifest God's love and kingdom on Earth even if there is still a longing for God’s full glory which is not yet present. This is how the Church is to be in the world. The Church should be attentive to the numerous challenges on Earth while remembering her ultimate end is union with God in Heaven. To forget this latter point would make the Church a mere NGO detached from God while to forget the former would make the Church an arthritic institution detached from those who suffer. Therefore, all Catholics are called to live in the tension between the transcendent and the imminent.

Celtic and Aboriginal Pathways toward a Contemporary Ecospirituality

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Allan Effa
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

In the fifth century a contextualized expression of Christianity emerged in Ireland that profoundly revitalized the church across Europe. The encounter of St. Patrick’s Gospel proclamation with the Irish sense of natural mysticism and sacredness of the world produced an expression of faith that was decidedly earth-affirming. Themes of ecospirituality emerged from this Gospel-culture encounter that are shared with the aboriginal cultures of North America. As we seek to re-express Christian faith in response to today’s ecological crisis, we may shape our conversation by the insights gained by the Christian encounter with Celtic and aboriginal cultures.

scholarly journals Tuhan Ada di Mana-mana: Mencari Makna bagi Korban Bencana di Indonesia

Kurios ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Johannis Siahaya ◽  
Karel Martinus Siahaya ◽  
Nunuk Rinukti
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
The Church

The phenomenon of natural disasters has been felt in recent years and has become a global concern. This concern occurs because, the intensity of natural disasters that are increasingly frequent in various parts of the world lately, taking many victims both human, property, and other lives. Religions (including the church), however, have an essential calling and responsibility in dealing with the problem of the victims of the disaster. However, today's reality shows that religions (as well as internal church) are still involved and struggling in classical debates about teachings (dogma) about who God is: about his name, which God or religion is true, or what God teaches in which religion or church which is considered correct. Abstrak Fenomena bencana alam sangat terasa dalam beberapa tahun terakhir sampai-sampai menjadi perhatian dunia. Hal ini terjadi karena, intensitas benca-na alam yang semakin sering terjadi di berbagai belahan dunia termasuk di Indonesia akhir-akhir ini, bahkan mengakibatkan banyak korban yang berja-tuhan, selain kehilangan harta benda. Melihat fenomena ini gereja memiliki panggilan dan tanggung jawab yang hakiki dalam dalam menangani korban bencana tersebut. Namun, realitas yang terjadi adalah Agama-agama lain bahkan gereja masih saja terlibat dalam berbagai perdebatan mengenai siapa Tuhan itu, mengenai nama-Nya, Agama mana yang benar, ataupun ajaran Tuhan dari agama atau gereja mana yang dianggap benar.

Conflict and Financial Scandal on History, Culture, and Politic

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 20628-20638
Author(s):  
Anik Yuesti ◽  
I Made Dwi Adnyana
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
Financial Scandals ◽  
Financial Transparency ◽  
The Church ◽  
Transparency And Accountability

One of the things that are often highlighted in the world of spirituality is a matter of sexual scandal. But lately, the focus of the spiritual world is financial transparency and accountability. Financial scandals began to arise in the Church, as was the case in the Protestant Christian Church of Bukti Doa Nusa Dua Congregation in Bali. The scandal involved clergy and even some church leaders. This study aims to describe how the conflict occurred because of financial scandals in the Church. The method used in this study is the Ontic dialectic. Based on this research, the conflict in the Bukit Doa Church is a conflict caused by an internal financial scandal. The scandal resulted in fairly widespread conflict in the various lines of the organization. It led to the issuance of the Dismissal Decrees of the church pastor and also one of the members of Financial Supervisory Council. This conflict has also resulted in the leadership of the church had violated human rights. Source of conflict is not resolved in a fair, but more concerned with political interests and groups. Thus, the source of the problem is still attached to its original place.

Lived Catholicity

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Kirch
Keyword(s):  
Pope Francis ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The Church

Both Pope Francis and Robert Schreiter recognize that the world has been profoundly affected by conflict, globalization, and the breakdown of relationships on multiple levels. They also assert that the Church must address these situations. The ecclesiologies of both Schreiter and Francis offer effective tools for this work. This article will examine several key, shared concepts within their ecclesiologies. Specifically, their understandings of the missionary nature of the Church and their robust understanding of catholicity prove to be key concepts in the Church's response to a world marred by sin.

Dreams Give Birth to Reality”. Engraving Austroseraphicum Coelum as an Attempt to Create a New Reality by the Spanish Habsburgs Dynastic Propaganda / Sny rodzą rzeczywistość…”. Grafika Austroseraphicum Coelum jako próba kreowania nowej rzeczywistości za pomocą propagandy dynastycznej Habsburgów hiszpańskich

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kurowiak
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
General Condition ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Mission Of God ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

AbstractAs a work of propaganda, graphics Austroseraphicum Coelum Paulus Pontius should create a new reality, make appearances. The main impression while seeing the graphics is the admiration for the power of Habsburgs, which interacts with the power of the Mother of God. She, in turn, refers the viewer to God, as well as Franciscans placed on the graphic, they become a symbol of the Church. This is a starting point for further interpretation of the drawing. By the presence of certain characters, allegories, symbols, we can see references to a particular political situation in the Netherlands - the war with the northern provinces of Spain. The message of the graphic is: the Spanish Habsburgs, commissioned by the mission of God, they are able to fight all of the enemies, especially Protestants, with the help of Immaculate and the Franciscans. The main aim of the graphic is to convince the viewer that this will happen and to create in his mind a vision of the new reality. But Spain was in the seventeenth century nothing but a shadow of former itself (in the time of Philip IV the general condition of Spain get worse). That was the reason why they wanted to hold the belief that the empire continues unwavering. The form of this work (graphics), also allowed to export them around the world, and the ambiguity of the symbolic system, its contents relate to different contexts, and as a result, the Habsburgs, not only Spanish, they could promote their strength everywhere. Therefore it was used very well as a single work of propaganda, as well as a part of a broader campaign

DESASTRES NATURAIS NO BRASIL E NO MUNDO: UMA ANÁLISE HOLÍSTICA COM ÊNFASE NOS IMPACTOS DOS EVENTOS HIDROLÓGICOS E METEOROLÓGICOS/NATURAL DISASTERS IN BRAZIL AND OVER THE WORLD: AN ANALYSIS EMPHASIZING HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL EVENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 73718-73740
Author(s):  
Andreilcy Alvino-Borba ◽  
Paula Marianela Guerra ◽  
Lídia Aparecida Gomes Moreira ◽  
Helenice Maria Sacht ◽  
José António Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
The World

The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
The Third ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
The World ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
Spiritual Conquest ◽  
The Church ◽  
The U.S

A spiritual biography, this book chronicles the journey of Margarito Bautista (1878–1961) from Mormonism to the Third Convention, a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) splinter group he fomented in 1935–1936, to Colonia Industrial/Nueva Jerusalén, a polygamist utopia Bautista founded in 1947. It argues that Bautista embraced Mormon belief in indigenous exceptionalism in 1901 and rapidly rose through the ranks of Mormon priesthood until convinced that the Mormon hierarchy was not invested in the development of native American peoples, as promoted in the Church’s canon. This realization resulted in tensions over indigenous self-governance within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) and Bautista’s 1937 excommunication. The book contextualizes Bautista’s thought with a chapter on the spiritual conquest of Mexico in 1513 and another on the arrival of Mormons in Mexico. In addition to accounts of Bautista’s congregation-building on both sides of the U.S. border, this volume includes an examination of Bautista’s magnum opus, a 564-page tome hybridizing Aztec history and Book of Mormon narratives, and his prophetic plan for the recovery of indigenous authority in the Americas. Bautista’s excommunication catapulted him into his final spiritual career, that of a utopian founder. In the establishment of his colony, Bautista found a religious home, free from Euro-American oversight, where he implemented his prophetic plan for Mexico’s redemption. His plan included obedience to early Mormonism’s most stringent practices, polygamy and communalism. Bautista nonetheless hoped his community would provide a model for Mexicans willing to prepare the world for Christ’s millennial reign.

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