scholarly journals Penginjilan Terhadap Masyarakat Plural Berdasarkan Surat Efesus

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Erna Ngala ◽  
Veydy Yanto Mangantibe

This article discusses evangelism to plural societies based on the epistle of ephesians. Evangelism is god’s program, design and work that bring for himself, people to fellowship, worship / praise and serve him in wholeness and harmony. Evangelism is established by god from eternity, because all things are designed by god from eternity in his omniscience and power in evangelism (eph. 1: 4-14). God wants his people to have fellowship with him, become his worshipers and serve him, the true god. The challenge in evangelism is that every religion is different, all religions have objects that are worshiped, therefore it will not be possible to be completely equated between one religion and another. Plural society equates christian faith with other beliefs by looking for loopholes to align christianity with other religions. The duty of the believer is to preach the gospel so that unbelievers hear and believe in the lord jesus and are saved, not compromising the gospel or juxtaposing christian faith with other beliefs. Keywords: Evangelism; Plural Society; Ephesians Letter  AbstrakArtikel ini membahasa mengenai penginjilan terhadap masyarakat plural berdasarkan surat Efesus. Penginjilan merupakan program, rancangan dan karya Allah yang membawa bagi diriNya sendiri suatu umat untuk bersekutu, menyembah/memuji dan melayani Dia dalam keutuhan dan keserasian. Penginjilan ditetapkan Allah sejak kekekalan, sebab segala sesuatu dirancang Allah dari kekal dalam kemahatahuanNya dan kuasaNya didalam penginjilan (Ef.  1:4-14). Allah menghendaki agar umatNya bersekutu dengan Dia, menjadi penyembahNya dan melayani Dia, Allah yang benar. Tantangan dalam penginjilan adalah setiap agama berbeda, semua agama memiliki objek yang disembah, oleh sebab itu tidak akan mungkin dapat disamakan secara keseluruhannya antara agama satu dengan yang lain. Masyarakat plural, menyamakan iman Kristen dengan kepercayaan lain dengan mencari celah untuk dapat menjajarkan kekristenan dengan keagamaan lain. Tugas dari orang percaya ialah memberitakan Injil agar orang-orang yang belum percaya mendengar dan menjadi percaya kepada Tuhan Yesus serta diselamatkan, bukan mengkompromikan Injil atau menjajarkan iman Kristen dengan kepercayaan lain. Kata Kunci: Penginjilan; Masyarakat Plural; Surat Efesus

ICR Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haniff Hassan

This article seeks to provide a descriptive and analytical perspective about how Islam can be interpreted by Muslims in plural societies with two contrasting results. Building on those results, this article provides two other variations, thus providing a spectrum of views on Islam and a plural society in one continuum. The article also offers an extrapolation of Muslim attitudes and treatment of non-Muslims in two different contexts; where Muslims are a majority group or as a minority in a non-Muslim country. The two contexts are chosen because they represent the contemporary setting, in which many Muslims find themselves today. Finally, the article offers some reasons that explain the divergence of views and sometimes even contradicting interpretations that influence and shape Muslim attitudes towards plural societies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 712-716
Author(s):  
Flansius Tampubolon ◽  
Maurits Junard Pollatu

North Sumatra is one of the provinces in Indonesia which is quite rich in culture including dance. Dance studio is one part of cultural elements that have educational value in the form of function and role in the midst of plural society. Some people of North Sumatra compile and manage dance studios to preserve traditional arts. One of the existing dance studios is the Toba Batak Dance / Aksara "Marsihaholongan". This dance studio is one of the studios in the Bagan Deli area, Belawan. This dance studio began to be made in 2008 with the aim of a place or facility used by the community or a group of people to conduct training activities, namely activities that focus more on the dance field, both traditional and modern dance. This dance studio was created also as a vehicle for the application of harmony among religious believers, not only based on the field of art, but also based on improving culture in plural societies.


1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-65

A Survey of Teacher Education for Plural Societies (the S.T.E.P.S. Project) has been commissioned and funded by the Education Research and Development Committee of the Australian Department of Education.In the present state of teacher education in Australia, there are quite apparent uncertainties about aims, guiding presuppositions, and models of society. For instance, in the area of pluralism, agreement has yet to be reached on whether Australia is multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, or polyethnic. All these terms have been used at various times – often as political rhetoric – but arguably do not clarify our understanding of the nature of Australian pluralism.At the conceptual mapping level, STEPS is designed to survey available recent Australian and overseas literature and research to arrive at a summary of the concepts currently employed to describe plural societies. It is hoped that this summary will provide a basis for arriving at a definitive statement about the special characteristics of Australian pluralism – it being axiomatic that each plural society will have its own ‘brand’ of pluralism – in order to assist educators’ and educational planners’ thinking and policy making.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Khoirun Nisa

Indonesian state is constituted of various races and cultures which reflect plural societies and create culture, art, and different customs as informal education of the society. Multicultural society is a society that acknowledges plurality as the matter of Indonesian nation. This kind of society can be easily found at Teluk Panji II village characterized as one of transmigration areas. Inter-cultural harmony is also depicted through marital system with different cultural background. For example, multicultural society will contribute to create equal position of different cultures. Multicultural society is relatively new term which is introduced by Canadian State around 1970s. This furthermore produces cultural fusion which bounds the relationship of plural society into multicultural one adhering to different kinship system. In sum, the law of inheritance implemented differs with those applied among families concluded through endogamy marriage.


2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Horenczyk ◽  
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti ◽  
David L. Sam ◽  
Paul Vedder

This paper focuses on processes and consequences of intergroup interactions in plural societies, focusing primarily on majority-minority mutuality in acculturation orientations. We examine commonalities and differences among conceptualizations and models addressing issues of mutuality. Our review includes the mutual acculturation model ( Berry, 1997 ), the Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM – Bourhis et al., 1997 ), the Concordance Model of Acculturation (CMA – Piontkowski et al., 2002 ); the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM – Navas et al., 2005 ), and the work on acculturation discrepancies conducted by Horenczyk (1996 , 2000 ). We also describe a trend toward convergence of acculturation research and the socio-psychological study of intergroup relations addressing issues of mutuality in attitudes, perceptions, and expectations. Our review has the potential to enrich the conceptual and methodological toolbox needed for understanding and investigating acculturation in complex modern societies, where majorities and minorities, immigrants and nationals, are engaged in continuous mutual contact and interaction, affecting each other’s acculturative choices and acculturative expectations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-143
Author(s):  
Norbert Feinendegen

Although Lewis describes his intellectual journey to the Christian faith in Surprised by Joy and The Pilgrim's Regress, the actual steps of his progress from Atheism to Theism are still a matter of controversy. Based on Lewis' letters, his diary All My Road Before Me and recently published sources (in particular ‘Early Prose Joy’), this paper gives an outline of the main steps of Lewis' philosophical progress during the 1920s. The first part sketches the five main stages Materialism, Realism, Absolute Idealism, Subjective Idealism, and Theism, and submits a proposal for their dating. The second part describes these stages in greater detail and discusses the reasons that urged Lewis to adopt a new philosophical position at a particular time. It will become apparent that a thorough philosophical understanding of these stages is an indispensable prerequisite for any serious effort to establish a chronology of Lewis' intellectual progress during these years.


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