Pemulihan Identitas Naratif Korban Kekerasan Seksual:

Sebagai peristiwa traumatik, kekerasan seksual melumpuhkan identitas korban sehingga menjadikan korban kehilangan keberdayaan sebagai manusia. Namun, identitas korban-korban kekerasan seksual itu dapat dipulihkan. Pertanyaan yang ingin dijawab dalam artikel ini adalah apa yang memungkinkan, secara filosofis dan teologis, pemulihan atau perubahan identitas korban (victim) menjadi identitas penyintas tertebus (redeemed survivor). Artikel ini akan berupaya menjawab pertanyaan tersebut dari sudut pandang filsafat Paul Ricoeur mengenai identitas naratif sebagai kerangka (form) dan teologi Miroslav Volf mengenai ingatan kudus (sacred memory) dalam sejarah keselamatan sebagai isi (matter) dari identitas penyintas tertebus. Tesis dalam artikel ini adalah pemulihan atau perubahan identitas korban menjadi penyintas tertebus dimungkinkan melalui pemulihan identitas naratif korban yang berisi memori suci (sacred memory) dalam paradigma naratif sejarah keselamatan Kristen.

The Trinity: Prototype of Real Existence or Danger to Political Wellbeing? Tanner, Volf, and Yannaras in Conversation

Kathryn Tanner maintains that political theologies based on the Trinity are not only unsound, but potentially dangerous. Her primary concern is that the Trinity, by definition, cannot serve as a “model” for human socio-political organization. Miroslav Volf, while sharing Tanner’s sense that Trinitarian political theologies are fraught, nevertheless, maintains that the Trinity can serve as a “vision” for human socio-political relations, albeit not as a “program”. This article brings Tanner and Volf into conversation with Eastern Orthodox philosopher-theologian Christos Yannaras, whose Trinitarian political theology regards the Trinity as the “prototype” or “archetype” of a mode of existence in which humans can participate by transcending their natures, with the aim of realizing truth. This article argues that Yannaras offers a novel way of conceptualizing Trinitarian political theology which escapes Tanner and Volf’s criticisms, on the one hand, and offers Social Trinitarianism a fresh and fertile perspective that could advance its discourse.

Toward a Pentecostal Understanding of Communio Sanctorum: Reflections on Peter Kuzmič & Miroslav Volf ’s “Theology of the Church as a Fellowship of Persons” in the Context of the Pentecostal-Roman Catholic Dialogue

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the Pentecostal understanding of the communion of saints by critically engaging with the ecclesiological vision of two world-class Pentecostal theologians from post-communist countries: Peter Kuzmič and Miroslav Volf. Th e paper has three sections: in the first one, a brief historical and theological overview of the doctrine of communio sanctorum is presented, to both set the stage for the core of the paper, and to point out the usefulness of reflecting on this particular ecclesiological topic. The second section offers an outline of “Perspectives on Koinonia” (the final report from the Third Quinquennium of the Pentecostal-Roman Catholic Dialogue), focusing on the first round of talks (Riano, Italy, 1985), which were on the topic of communio sanctorum. In the third section, the author presents and engages with Kuzmič & Volf ’s paper, “Theology of the Church as a Fellowship of Persons” which represents one of the earliest attempts to articulate a Pentecostal ecclesiology based on the notion of communio sanctorum. In the end, the author will attempt to show how this ecclesiological vision helps the shaping of a Pentecostal theology of public life.