scholarly journals Analisis kritis konstruktif praksis teologi publik Gereja Masehi Injili Halmahera di era otonomi daerah

Kurios ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Julianus Mojau
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Liberal Economy ◽  
The Church

This paper highlights the praxis of public theology that resulted from the decisions of the Synod of the Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera (GMIH Synod) in the context of the era of regional autonomy during the 2002-2017 ministry period. By using qualitative research methods through library research, this analysis examines theological discourse and living church praxis as stated in the decisions of the GMIH Synod. Starting from the analysis of the social function of the Church emphasized by Ricardo F. Nanuru and the praxis of inter-religious advocate public theology by Felix Wilfred, this study found that: (a) GMIH ecclesiastical documents have seeded the praxis of interreligious public theology in the form of a series of pastoral recommendations and information on the Church's social services; (b this interreligious public theology advocacy practice needs to have an adequate theological basis and a measurable translation into the practice of living in the GMIH church. This theologically measured programmatic integration helps GMIH demonstrate its ecclesiastical identity as a social-humanist-ecological body of Christ that has an impact on Halmahera's public sphere in the era of regional autonomy which is being overshadowed by the neo-liberal economy and the extractive and exploitive mining economy.  AbstrakTulisan ini menyoroti praxis teologi publik hasil keputusan-keputusan persidangan Sinode Gereja Masehi Injili di Halmahera (Sinode GMIH) dalam konteks otonomi daerah selama periode pelayanan 2002-2017. Dengan meng-gunakan metode penelitian kualitatif melalui jenis penelitian kepustakaan, analisis ini mengkaji wacana teologis dan praxis hidup seperti tertuang dalam keputusan-keputusan Sidang Sinode GMIH. Bertolak dari analisis fungsi sosial Gereja yang ditekankan oleh Ricardo F. Nanuru dan praxis teologi publik advo-katif intereligius Felix Wilfred kajian ini menghasilkan: (a) dokumen-dokumen gerejawi GMIH telah membenihkan praxis teologi publik intereligius dalam bentuk serangkaian anjuran pastoral dan informasi pelayanan sosial Gereja; (b) praxis advokasi teologi publik interreligious ini perlu mendapat pendasaran teo-logis yang memadai dan penerjemahannya yang terukur dalam praktik hidup menggereja GMIH. Pengintegrasian programatis terukur secara teologis ini membantu GMIH meragakan identitas eklesialnya sebagai tubuh sosial-huma-nis-ekologis Kristus yang berdampak dalam ruang publik Halmahera di era otonomi daerah yang sedang dibayang-bayangi oleh ekonomi neo-liberal dan ekonomi pertambangan ekstraktif dan eksploitatif.

The Church and Society Movement and the Roots of Public Theology in Brazilian Protestantism

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimundo Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
European North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Organic Intellectual ◽  
The Church

Abstract Brazilian Protestantism in its origins tended to develop a kind of pietistic and individualistic spirituality without much concern with the social structures of Brazilian society. Nevertheless, in its historical relation with a reality marked by poverty, social injustice and oppression, some Brazilian Protestants began to develop a sense of social responsibility and social justice, which has been manifest in different ways. This article is an overview of the first attempt from a Protestant viewpoint to develop a public theological discourse in Brazil, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It focuses on the Religion and Society movement, which not only preceded liberation theology in Latin America, but also dialogued with liberationist thought and influenced it, as well as other later public discourses among Catholics and Protestants in Latin America. Richard Shaull was the first significant organic intellectual who mediated the dialogue between European/North American theologies and the Latin American public theology, which was in the making.

The Church and the Social Services

Probation ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
W.W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Church

East Germany's New Kulturkampf

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Eleutherius
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Party Member ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
The Church

In 1970 I was told by a ranking SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschland) party member: “If you think Walter Ulbricht has been a severe taskmaster, wait until he steps down and his crown prince, Erich Honecker, takes the party leadership. Ulbricht at first tried to imitate the Soviet Union slavishly, but he finally came to see that Germany is not the Soviet Union, that the DDR would have to develop its own brand of socialism. Honecker is much more subservient to Moscow than Ulbricht and much more blind to the social and political importance of the Christian Church.” In the mid-fifties, Ulbricht learned that persecuting the Church did not pay political, social or economic dividends.

‘Sexuality in the Church: Toward a sociology of the Bible’

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
John Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Church ◽  
Social Behaviours

Sexuality is an obsession of the Christian Church. It is one of the social behaviours that it has tried most to control amongst its flock and yet the Christian Church has failed to prevent the encroachment of modern attitudes towards sex and sexuality into the Church as an institution. The furore over the proposed appointment of an openly gay bishop in the Church of England is but the latest expression of this tension. However, this paper argues that this debate needs to be placed in a much broader context, namely, the hermeneutical problem of the authority of the Bible, which is itself only one part of a wider sociology of the Bible. The current debate on sexuality in the Church highlights the need for sociology to begin to apply its way of thinking to the Bible.

scholarly journals Theology in the Public Sphere in the Twenty-First Century

Horizons ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-356
Author(s):  
Bryan N. Massingale
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Church

Several decades ago David Tracy wrote that theologians speak to three publics: the academy, the church, and society. Since then many theologians have exhibited, in Tracy's words, “that drive to publicness which constitutes all good theological discourse[,] … a drive from and to those three publics.”1 Our four roundtable authors discuss how and why theologians engage the public sphere in the twenty-first century. In arguing for the necessity of such engagement, they also draw attention to the promise and perils of doing public theology today.

scholarly journals Postmoderne kerk-wees in die lig van publieke teologie – eenheid en verskeidenheid

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Postmodern Thinking

Being postmodern church in light of public theology – unity and diversityFoundationalism criticizes the “relativism” of postmodernity which deconstructs absolute and objective totalitarian truth claims. Although most postmodern scholars deny advocating relativism, they do acknowledge that plurality features significantly in postmodern thinking. Plurality and diversity are important to the theological discourse tool, because the church claims to be catholic and ecumenical. In a postmodern context people who do not necessarily affiliate with the institutional church may nevertheless regard themselves as Christians. The article supports a public theological discourse and aims to provide a framework for reflection on unity and diversity in postmodern faith communities. Public practical theology includes the public as one of its audiences. After a brief overview of the phenomenon of postmodernity, the article explores the role of plurality in ecclesiology. It reflects on the challenge of facilitating a dialogue between members of churches and those who regard themselves as spiritual in the secularized context of a “churchless Christianity”. The purpose of the article is to contribute to the ecumenism and the catholicity of the church.

Power, Knowledge and Authority in Public Theology

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Graham
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
The Church

AbstractOne of the most distinctive movements within Christian theology to have emerged over the past generation has been the various theologies of liberation which originated in Latin America but which now span a diversity of styles, including feminist and womanist, Black, Asian and lesbian/gay/bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) theologies. All theologies of liberation purport to give a voice to the experiences of those formerly silenced or marginalized by society and/or the Church. This is essentially an issue of power, since one of the authenticating marks of such theologies is the extent to which they enable such groups to move from powerlessness to empowerment. Yet theologies of liberation also represent, potentially, another redistribution of power, by enabling previously excluded groups to bring their interpretations and testimonies into theological discourse. This article examines the background to this intersection of power and knowledge in theology, and asks how public theology might assist such a process of theological empowerment.

Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-532
Author(s):  
JOHN HALSEY WOOD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
The Church

The nineteenth century witnessed a transition from the ancien régime to the ‘age of mobilisation’, says Charles Taylor, from an organically and hierarchically connected society to a fragmented society based on mass participation, charismatic leaders and organisational tactics. Amid this upheaval the Netherlands Reformed Church faced an unprecedented crisis as it lost its taken-for-granted social status. This essay examines the new legitimation that Abraham Kuyper offered the Church through his Free Church theology, and how various other aspects of his theology, including his baptismal and public theology, developed in conjunction with his ecclesiology. Kuyper's ecclesiology thus offers a case study of problems that ecclesiology in general faced due to the social and cultural shifts of the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals On becoming the hands and feet of Christ in an AIDS-ridden community in Swaziland – A story of hope

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1095-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Van Wyngaard
Keyword(s):  
Present Finding ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hands And Feet ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way ◽  
Hiv Aids

In terms of the social involvement of the Christian church within the community, it would not be an overstatement to say that never before in history has there been a greater challenge facing the church than the present, finding a way to bring hope to those suffering due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Yet, in spite of the enormity of this pandemic, it is possible to make a huge difference in people’ s lives, making use of a few willing people and a fairly conservative budget. In this article the author attempts to describe the way in which a very small congregation, where the average weekly attendance at church services is seldom more than fifty people and where nearly all members live close to or under the breadline, started making a noticeable difference in their community. Motivated by God’ s love for them, they decided to share this love in a practical way with all those in the community suffering due to HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses. This is a story of hope, not only for those who receive help, but even more so, for those who want to give help.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Prophetic Education at Junior High School Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Arif Ahmad Fauzi ◽  
Adinda Kamilah
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Junior High School Level

The current educational process is moving from a monotonous, indoctrinate, teacher-centered, top-down, mechanical, verbal, and cognitive process. However, there is an impression that the current practice of Islamic education is sterile from the context of the reality that it is unable to contribute to the various problems that occur. One of the educational problems in adolescents is reflected in the data from the social services. There are five of the eight cases handled by the social service for the protection of women and children are juvenile delinquency cases. Therefore, we need an interpretation and reorientation as well as a paradigm shift from current educational practices. As Muslims, we have the Messenger of Allah as a role model for education. The teaching prophetic techniques and methods can change generations and create a masterpiece in the form of khairu ummah. Among the principles of prophetic education is to strengthen faith before studying the Qur'an. Prophetic education also has a basis on which to become the foundation. The implementation of prophetic education itself consists of several processes, namely planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating. This study aims to examine the entire process of implementing prophetic education at the secondary school level, especially in SMP Bina Insan Boarding School. The research method used is field research and library research. The data are then analyzed theoretically and philosophically for further conclusions.

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