<p align=”justify”>This essay looks at the dynamics between movement and institution, where
each movement has to ripen in an institution and each institution has to be
loosened again and again by new movements and inspirations. The author wishes
to outline the dynamics between movement and institution by focusing on the
credit union movement. At the beginning the development of the Church from
a charismatic movement to an institution is outlined, which in time became
extremely rigid. Then, the industrial revolution in the 19 century is looked at
with its spirit of liberalism which produced the plight of the workers, which in turn
triggered socialist movements which to overcome their plight by changing society
radically. The appearance of the social teaching of the Church is seen as an effort
to overcome the impasse of these two forces in the industrial revolution. On this
background appeared the credit union movement, which embodied a number of the
fundamental principles of the social teaching of the Church and is able to become
an agent to loosen the structure of the Church hierarchy and support efforts in the
country to hold back neo-liberalism and nurture democracy. In taking up the case
of the largest credit union on Flores Island, the essay shows how the CU itself lies
between the tension between movement and institutionalisation, while pointing
out what needs to be done that this tension is maintained creatively, so that the
CU is able to offer its spirit to the Church, and support democratisation in the
country.
<b>Kata-kata kunci:</b> credit union, gerakan, Gereja, koperasi, institusi,
struktur</p>
"The Parish of St Precarius" and the View of the Social Teaching of the Church