scholarly journals MEMPROMOSIKAN PERUMPAMAAN DALAM MENGAJAR AGAMA KATOLIK

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-360
Author(s):  
Agustinus Wisnu Dewantara
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

Jesús preached the kingdom of God. Many of his parables begin: The kingdom of God  is like….” But what exactly is the kingdom of God? Parables are enigmatic stories. Metaphorically they are set beside the idea of a kingdom of God, but idea the idea of kingdom is itself mysterious. Everyone who hangs around churches has heard of the parables of Jesus. They are familiar. They have been allegorized, psychologized, and sometimes reduced to pointed “lessons” on moral behavior. But mysteriously, after twenty centuries they still generate retelling and still are puzzling. Maybe the today teacher who preach must be converted. The today teacher cannot preach about the kingdom of God as if it were something somewhere out in the world beyond us. Remember, the kingdom of God is a happening, and people live within its happening. Instead we (and many teacher today) must speak the kingdom of God (and also religion preaching) happening all around us.

Nudged by Nathan Following a Lessing line in interfaith theology?

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petrus P. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Sensitive Area ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The World ◽  
Grand Vision ◽  
As If

Whereas a widespread malaise about the truth quality of much written and spoken communication had in our times apparently also infected the sensitive area of theological interfaith discourse, an injunction like the following of the apostle Paul receives renewed urgency: ‘the ‘kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power’ – against the background of the apostle’s own display of kingdom power ‘as if in a theatre’ (see 1 Cor 4:9, 20). The objective of this research study was to probe whether the recent leaning towards a more ‘dramatic mode of theologizing’ might be conducive to preventing the Christian interfaith discourse from descending into powerless talk about the kingdom of God. It, moreover, hypothesised that a ‘doing of the truth’ (in the Johannine sense of the phrase) – analogous to the faithful improvisation of an original theatrical script (in this instance: Holy Scripture) – could add value to the truth - claiming of Christianity in its encounter with Jews and Muslims. The method was followed for analysing the famous Enlightenment literary drama of Lessing, Nathan the Wise, to find a possible cue for proceeding in such a direction, and if found – to heuristically build thereon for such a real-life, contemporary interfaith discourse. The result was that Lessing’s ‘Parable of the Three Rings’ yielded some cue, which, however, was found to be deficient. Only filtered through Barth’s razor-sharp evaluation of the beautiful Lessing drama and then fitted into a Barthian view of the ‘Light and the lights’, which was, for its part, adapted to Calvin’s grand vision of the world as theatrum Dei gloriae, the cue could be moulded to be acceptable for our purpose. A notion of historical-dramatic interfaith encounter thus emerged, where truth is not precluded in undecided tolerance but preluded in expectation of its full eschatological uncovering. Employing this – reframed – ‘Nathan nudge’, a conclusionary sketch could be given of a theological interfaith contest, conducted as if biblical truth resounded through the Christian’s whole body in an interactive ‘inter-play’ with Jews and Muslims. This conclusion was highlighted by some improvisatory, preludial, hospitable and Christocentric accents inherent in such a rendering.Contribution: This article showed one way out of the impasse that threatens a form of interfaith truth claiming constructed around ‘mere words’ – which, moreover, are deemed to be ‘final’. By proposing a preluding – and yet not precluding – of Christian truth, it hopes to add value to interfaith kingdom theology that really matters.

Mental Money Laundering: A Motivated Violation of Fungibility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Imas ◽  
George Loewenstein ◽  
Carey K Morewedge
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Mental Accounting ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Corporate Behavior ◽  
Mixed Support ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
As If

Abstract People exploit flexibility in mental accounting to relax psychological constraints on spending. Four studies demonstrate this in the context of moral behavior. The first study replicates prior findings that people donate more money to charity when they earned it through unethical versus ethical means. However, when the unethically-earned money is first “laundered”––the cash is physically exchanged for the same amount but from a different arbitrary source—people spent it as if it was earned ethically. This mental money laundering represents an extreme violation of fungibility. The second study demonstrates that mental money laundering generalizes to cases in which ethically and unethically earned money are mixed. When gains from ethical and unethical sources were pooled, people spent the entire pooled sum as if it was ethically earned. The last two studies provide mixed support for the prediction that people actively seek out laundering opportunities for unethically earned money, suggesting partial sophistication about these effects. These findings provide new evidence for the ease with which people can rationalize misbehavior, and have implications for consumer choice, corporate behavior and public policy.

What We (Still) Need to Learn: Stuart Hall and the Struggle Against Racism

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (102) ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Gilbert B. Rodman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
As If

Forty years ago, in his seminal essay, 'The Whites of Their Eyes', Stuart Hall admonished the left for its – our – collective failure in figuring out how to fight back against racism effectively. Sadly, his criticism is no less valid today than it was then, and we still have a lot to learn about how to defeat racism once and for all. We've known for more than a century that this thing we call 'race' isn't a scientifically valid phenomenon – and yet it continues to function perfectly well in the world as if it is one anyway. As Hall noted in a 2011 interview, the mere act of unmasking essentialisms and deconstructing binaries doesn't stop them from 'roaring away' in the world, completely undisturbed by our analytic prowess. This essay takes stock of the current state of anti-racist struggles (at least in the US) and offers a critical analysis of how and why our current efforts to combat racism continue to be so ineffective.

scholarly journals Makna Penting Demokrasi dan Musyawarah Bagi Keutuhan Bangsa Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAVI GITA MAULIDA
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
National State ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Construction ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
As If

The Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) based on the historical trajectory of the struggle, has the only state construction in the world where the nation is born first, then forms the state. The first President of the Republic of Indonesia Ir. Soekarno emphasized that the Unitary State is a National State. The purpose of the Indonesian nation to be born, independent, and to form a state has one goal, the will to elevate the dignity and life of the Indonesian people (Indonesian People's Sovereignty). Through an analysis of the reality of today's life, the Indonesian nation has lived in a condition of life order as if it were the same as a democratic state, namely that the first state was formed and the nation was born later. So that the sovereignty of the Indonesian people based on the principles of deliberation and representation has not been able to be realized.

scholarly journals PKM KATEKESE TENTANG MENGHAYATI NILAI KERAJAAN ALLAH DALAM ERA DIGITAL BAGI ANGGOTA KMK. ST. MARTINUS PAROKI PERSIAPAN ST. MARINUS PU’URERE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Aurelius Fredimento ◽  
John M. Balan
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

The development and the progress of media communication at the present is a fact of the knowledge and the technology development that must be accepted. It presence like the flowing water which has a fast current that brings also two influences both positive and negative that must be accounted for the members of the Catholic Students Community Of St. Martinus Ende (KMK St. Martinus Ende). Both positive and negative influences the media community like a kinetic energy or a power attraction that attract  them in a tiring ambiquity. Let them walk alone without escort of a decisive compass where they should have a rightist attitude and responsible. On the point, the guidance and assistance of the church is an  offering  if the church will be born a generation  of the future  of the  church  that is mature and has a certain quality  based  on the growth  and the development  of acuteness and inner  to determine the attitude to the development of media communication. The process of sharpening of mind and the sharpeness of the participants can be realized by giving some activities such as: awareness, deepening and even  the sharpeness of the actor of  media communication as an  alternative of reporting work of the God Kingdom for human beings. It becomes the main moving spirit or activator  for the board of KMK Of St. Martinus Ende  to plan and boring  about the activity of catechism. The activity rise the method of Amos.  By this method, the participants are invited to build a deeply reflection that based on thein real experiences about the media communication, while keep on self opening to the God planning will come  to them  and  give them via  the commandment of God.  The commandment  of God  come to light, inspiration, motivate, power and critics to the  participants about the using of the media communication as a media of the commandment of the kingdom of God  to the world that is more progress and development lately.

scholarly journals U-22 Comparison of Common Human Rights with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Context of the Farewell Sermon

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-350
Author(s):  
Abdul Razaq ◽  
Muhammad Usman Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Charter ◽  
United Nation ◽  
As If

The last Hajj performed by the Messenger of Allah is called the Farewell Hajj in two respects. One is that you did the last Hajj and also with reference to the fact that the Holy Prophet himself said in this sermon: O people! By God, I don't know if I will be able to meet you in this place after today. You specifically said, "Ask me questions, learn and ask what you have to ask." I may not be able to meet you like this later this year.It was as if the Holy Prophet himself was saying goodbye. On this occasion, this Hajj is called the Farewell Hajj.The United Nation General Assembly, approved the: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" on Dec. 1948. Following this historic achievement, the Assembly urged all its member states to make the announcement public and participate in its dissemination. The purpose of this manifesto was to protect basic human rights throughout the world and to find solutions to various problems facing nations. The rights granted to man under the United Nations Charter, established in the twentieth century, were granted to him by Islam fourteen hundred years ago.The 30 articles of the UN Charter define basic human rights in various ways. These provisions relate to social, religious and human rights. When we compare the Farewell Sermon of the Holy Prophet with this Manifesto, where many similarities come to the fore, the differences are also noticeable.

scholarly journals KHILAFAHISASI HIZBUT TAHRIR INDONESIA (HTI) MELALUI DUNIA DIGITAL DI INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Syarafuddin H Zainuddin ◽  
Zaki Faddad SZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

The idea of ummah in the notion of khilafah (one rule of the world) is probably not realistic enough for most Muslims in Indonesia. Even call it a utopian dream. However, the concept of nationalism in a nation state has become an established reality. Therefore, this article will examine how HTI spread its ideas and the opportunities it gets. This research uses framing process analysis in the study of social movement. From that approach it can be concluded that HTI in its propaganda always highlight the issues of Indonesianness for the ultimate goal of introducing the khilafah. After that HTI tries to provide understanding and optimism about its utopian idealism, and changes the imaginary ideas about the khilafah as if factual to solve the problems of Indonesia

scholarly journals Hiliatic theories in the context of Protestant eschatology (exegetical-comparative analysis

2006 ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Vitaliy I. Docush
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The State ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Global Character ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Ideal System ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

At the intersection of the second and third millennia in connection with the natural (destruction of the state of the earth, water and atmosphere) and social (alcoholism, drug addiction, immoralism, extremism, wars, etc.) cataclysms that are taking on a global character, the eschatological prophecies about the end of the world have intensified the coming of the millennial Kingdom of God. In contrast to the existing problems, the Kingdom of God is offered as an ideal system of government with such qualitative characteristics as equality, justice, material and spiritual completeness.

scholarly journals The Ancient Syncretism and the Modern Syncretism

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Vadym Skurativskyi
Keyword(s):  
Technological Basis ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lumiere Brothers ◽  
As If

The genesis of cinema (in 1890) is immediately accompanied by the almost global resonance around the "moving picture", a rather unusual communicative phenomenon. Unfortunately, all the root causes of the resonance have not yet been sufficiently studied. Today, however, given the achievements of a whole range of humanities and (not only) scientific disciplines, it becomes obvious that the "moving picture" invented by engineers Edison and the Lumière brothers arises, above all, as an upgrade to completely new aesthetic, technological and other settings of human culture of the ancient phenomenon of socalled "original syncretism". It is as if the breakdawn of the artistic and generally semiotic-communicative culture of the humanity. That syncretism combines all the receptive means of a man to create a holistic space-and-time picture of the world. The "moving picture", which characteristically arose almost synchronously with the advent of the efforts of the science of the time (the school of Academician Alexander Veselovsky and others) around the phenomenon of original syncretism with a surprising sequence restores decisively the whole semiotic sum of it — but clearly, on a completely new so-called technological basis. Accordingly, this circumstance immediately casts a new cognitive light on the whole history of the "moving picture" — from its debut to our present.

scholarly journals Educational Content of Today The Understanding of Architecture as a Collective Art

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-103
Author(s):  
Gro Lauvland
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Given ◽  
As If ◽  
At Home

Our understanding of the world is manifested in what we make and produce. Through the last 250 years there has been a change in the understanding of man´s place in the world. Our way of building is characterized by market economy and controlled production processes — as if we can control everything through our consciousness. Both the given nature and what is transferred to us through history, are regarded as resources made for us. Today our understanding of the world makes the cities more and more similar. This understanding of nature and culture challenges our human conditions. As human beings, we are embedded in the place, according to both Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In line with their understanding the Norwegian architect and theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz argued, for instance in Stedskunst (1995), that it is the qualities of the place we identify with, and which makes it possible for us to feel at home.

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