Pemahaman Peserta Didik Tentang Mandat Budaya Dalam Kejadian 1:28 Terhadap Kepedulian Lingkungan

Lack of awareness in maintaining the environment should continue to be pursued in providing understanding to students because it is also a human responsibility to maintain the environment in accordance with cultural mandates. Using a descriptive qualitative method with a literature study approach, it can be concluded that environmental care can be measured from four indicators, namely: throwing garbage in its place, maintaining class cleanliness, maintaining school yard cleanliness, and maintaining bathroom cleanliness. Students' understanding of the cultural mandate in incident 1:28 can affect environmental awareness. If students' understanding of the cultural mandate in Genesis 1:28 is taught to students, it will grow students' awareness of the environment at school and at home. Based on the conclusions drawn, it can be said that students' understanding of the cultural mandate in incident 1:28 is very important to encourage students to care about the environment. Therefore, it is better for teachers or parents to teach the cultural mandate in Genesis 1:28 to students so that those who understand the cultural mandate have concern for the environment wherever they are. Abstrak Kurangnya kesadaran dalam memelihara lingkungan hidup patut terus diupayakan dalam memberi pemahaman kepada peserta didik sebab hal itu juga menjadi tanggung jawab manusia untuk memelihara lingkungan sesuai dengan mandat budaya. Menggunkan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan pendekatan studi literatur dapat disimpulkan bahwa kepedulian lingkungan dapat diukur dari empat indikator, yaitu: membuang sampah pada tempatnya, menjaga kebersihan kelas, menjaga kebersihan halaman sekolah, dan menjaga kebersihan kamar mandi. Pemahaman siswa tentang mandat budaya dalam Kejadian 1:28 dapat mempengaruhi kepedulian lingkungan. Jika pemahaman peserta didik tentang mandat budaya dalam Kejadian 1:28 diajarkan kepada peserta didik maka akan menumbuhkan kepedulian peserta didik terhadap lingkungan di sekolah maupun di rumah. Berdasarkan kesimpulan yang ditarik, dapat dikatakan bahwa pemahaman peserta didik tentang mandat budaya dalam Kejadian 1:28 sangat penting untuk mendorong peserta didik agar peduli terhadap lingkungan. Oleh kerena itu, sebaiknya guru atau orang tua harus mengajarkan mandat budaya dalam Kejadian 1:28 kepada peserta didik sehingga mereka yang memahami tentang mandat budaya memiliki kepedulian terhadap lingkungan di manapun mereka berada.

Pendekatan Pastoral terhadap Pelestarian Hutan

Forests are habitats for various species of living things. Their survival depends heavily on the preservation of their habitat. However, many forests have been damaged by human actions. It also poses a variety of ecological problems. This condition should encourage the church to find the right solution to the problem. Through the cultural mandate attached to it, the church is expected to play an active role in preserving forests. This can be realized through a pastoral approach oriented towards the involvement of the congregation in preserving forests from irresponsible actions. This research aims to show how important the role of the church in preserving forests. Through a concrete pastoral approach, the church can answer the cultural mandate. The method used in this study is the literature method. The results of this study show that based on the principles of cultural mandate in the Bible, the church is required to be actively involved in addressing ecological problems. The involvement is manifested in the pastoral approach to the congregation by educating them about the nature of forests and through practical actions involving them to preserve forests as habitats for various species of living beings. Hutan merupakan habitat bagi berbagai spesies mahkluk hidup. Kelangsungan hidup mereka sangat bergantung pada pelestarian habitatnya. Namun demikian banyak hutan yang telah rusak akibat ulah manusia. Hal itu rupanya juga menimbulkan berbagai problem ekologi. Kondisi ini seharusnya mendorong gereja untuk mencari solusi yang tepat atas masalah tersebut. Melalui mandat budaya yang melekat padanya, gereja diharapkan berperan aktif dalam melestarikan hutan. Ini dapat diwujudkan melalui pendekatan pastoral yang berorientasi kepada keterlibatan jemaat dalam melestarikan hutan dari tindakan yang tidak bertanggung jawab. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menunjukan betapa pentingnya peran gereja dalam melestarikan hutan. Melalui sebuah pendekatan pastoral yang konkrit, gereja dapat mengejawantahkan mandat budaya tersebut. Adapun metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kepustakaan. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa berdasarkan prinsip-prinsip mandat budaya yang ada di dalam alkitab, gereja dituntut untuk terlibat aktif dalam mengatasi problem ekologi. Keterlibatan itu diwujudkan dalam pendekatan pastoral kepada jemaat dengan mengedukasi mereka tentang hakikat hutan serta melalui tindakan-tindakan praktis yang melibatkan mereka untuk melestarikan hutan sebagai habitat bagi berbagai spesias mahkluk hidup.

Cultural Mandate of Local Governance: Running in Place

At present, local governments are unable to fulfil their cultural mandate either in terms of their functionality, or in the context of the required funding, or in terms of the scale and importance of tasks related to the development of culture. The article examines the problem of the ability of local governments to address the cultural agenda: the content of the network of municipal cultural institutions and ensuring the availability of cultural goods for the general population. The actions of the state over the past three decades testify to the implementation in Russia of managerial decisions that are extremely unfriendly to the cultural sphere. Firstly, we are talking about the reform of the budgetary sector, marked by the optimization, unification and commercialization of cultural institutions and a reduction in the number of employees. Secondly, within the framework of the reform of local government, all responsibility for the functioning of the so-called grassroots level of culture: public libraries, cultural and leisure institutions, local museums and art schools was transferred to the municipal level without bringing the required amount of public funding. The situation is aggravated by the accumulated socio-economic problems of municipalities, which reflected in the cultural sphere. A way out of the closed circle is seen in the revision and a clear definition of the area of responsibility of local government bodies in the field of culture and guaranteed public funding.

Christian Formation in Practical Public Theology

Practical public theology engages questions concerning life together in a political community. Forming Christians in practical public theology draws on biblically informed principles and the experience of community in the church. It fosters a conception of public life that is wider than the strictly political, enabling responses with the resources and capacities of spheres beyond government alone. It cultivates a disposition to discern the multiple theological principles in many concerns of our common life and attention to multiple factors from the perspectives of practitioners in other spheres. Finally, practical public theology equips Christians to recognize more than material dimensions in challenges facing individuals and communities and to respond relationally, through loving service to all neighbors. KEYWORDS: Practical public theology, formation, creation, cultural mandate, common grace, image of God, stewardship, poverty, conscience, gender identity

Encountering the Religious Radicalism Movement Through Reconstructing the Multicultural Theology and Its Implication For Christian Leaders in Indonesia

This research aims to create a harmonious relationship among different religions in Indonesia. This aim is reached through reconstructing a multicultural theology based on biblical understanding. The multicultural theology is a biblical principle that be constructed in balancing between Old Testament and New Testament, between general revelation and special revelation. By exposing the general revelation based on theocentric dimension, we found general principles about how to make a good relationship among people in their differences, according to God’s perspective. At the same time, multicultural theology also exposes particular revelation principles centered upon the Christocentric dimension. This research is a qualitative study with a library approach. Data is analyzed by interpretation, critical thinking, and truth and healthy consideration based on the primary source. We found a Christian value to be a foundation to make the relationship in harmony with other people. For this purpose we are proposing a theological framework designed from Biblical principles, covering the following: (1) Cultural Mandate, (2) Human Nature, (3) Theological principles: God’s Sovereignty, God’s Providence and God’s Justice, (4) Incarnation, (5) Universal Soteriology (6) Present Theocracy, (7) Church Nature and (8) Eschatological Multiculture. Christian leaders are central people that must create a relationship with other people in harmony. Through this way, the Christian leaders can engage the religious radicalism by doing good things and togetherness in social work.

A perspective on God’s view of human diversity: A missiological application of joy in diversity

This article considers a missiological perspective that emphasizes God’s creation of and joy in human diversity. Beginning with a concrete experience of personal challenge, four questions are explored: (1) Did diversity of human biology and racial phenotype come as a result of God’s original (before sin) creation design? If not then; (2) Is uniformity of race and biological phenotype the best understanding of God’s original (before sin) creation design? (3) Shall we read the Genesis 1:28; 9:1 “cultural mandate” to fill and subdue the earth as instructions to spread and ethnically/racially diversify across the face of the earth? And, finally, (4) How shall we read the diversity of languages in Genesis 11:1–9 brought up by God: as a curse from God to punish Babel’s pride, or as a remedy from God against Babel’s attempt at uniformity?

An analysis of Accelerated Christian Curriculum in Biblical Christian Worldview

<p class="abstracttextDILIGENTIA">God gave man his commission (Gen. 1:26-30), called the Cultural Mandate. In this mandate mankind is to steward the created order, in accordance with God’s law-Word, for God’s glory. Shortly before the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, he issued the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20). The Great Commission command to disciple all the nations into obedience to the comprehensive and absolute lordship of Jesus Christ. There is no area of thought, life, or culture outside the scope of the Creation/ Dominion Mandate or the Great Commission. Thus, the extent of the Creation Mandate and the extent of the Great Commission necessitate Christian Education.<strong> </strong>Accelerated Christian Curriculum is a curriculum that has been helping pastors and parents by developing and publishing quality, character building Christian educational materials for Grade Levels K3-12. By integrating character building principles and scripture memory into the academics, the program helps children master each concept before moving to the next concept.<strong> </strong>In this essay I analyze the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum from a Biblical Christian Worldview.</p><div><div><p class="footnoteDILIGENTIA"> </p></div></div>

Negotiating Evidence and Efficacy in Experimental Medicine

This chapter examines how urban Chinese neurosurgeons have leveraged fetal cell therapies in order to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing healthcare system. Their experimental practices raise key questions about the ethics and epistemology of clinical experimentation at the “cutting edge” of biomedical practice in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the pursuit of science and technology is not just a strategy for individual triumph but a broader cultural mandate for national salvation, which is described as “technonationalism.” While changes in the financing and organization of healthcare sparked by China's transition to market socialism over the past few decades have enabled and encouraged entrepreneurial physicians to develop advanced therapeutic interventions, these high-tech desires must be situated in a broader Chinese program of scientific and technological modernization. The chapter also takes a closer look at the semiotics by which practitioners and patients recognize medical authenticity and charlatanism.

INTELEKTUALITAS, GAIRAH & KERENDAHAN HATI: SIKAP TERHADAP SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI [INTELLECTUALITY, PASSION & HUMILITY: ATTITUDES TOWARDS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY]

<p class="abstrak">Some would claim that science and technology contradict the life of faith, or that the one is more important or higher than the other. Such dualism/dichotomy may result from the pressure of atheism or the friction between various convictions in which scientists work. This writing suggests a healthier attitude towards science and technology for people of faith, where science, technology, and faith are approached without the crippling sacred/secular dichotomy. The concept of cultural mandate (Kuyper) provides a model for cultivating intellectuality, passion and humility as a divine mandate in faithful stewardship towards nature. A well-rounded scientist or engineer must be also aware of the ethical challenges in his or her field.</p><p class="abstrak"><strong>BAHASA INDONESIA ABSTRAK: </strong>Ada yang mengklaim bahwa sains dan teknologi berkontradiksi dengan kehidupan iman, atau bahwa yang satu lebih penting atau lebih tinggi dari yang lain. Dualisme/dikotomi demikian dapat muncul dari tekanan paham ateisme atau gesekan dari berbagai keyakinan tempat ilmuwan beraktivitas. Tulisan ini mengusulkan suatu sikap yang lebih sehat terhadap sains dan teknologi untuk orang percaya, di mana sains, teknologi dan iman didekati tanpa dikotomi sakral/sekuler yang melumpuhkan. Konsep mandat budaya (Kuyper) menyediakan model untuk mengusahakan intelektualitas, gairah &amp; kerendahan hati sebagai mandat ilahi dalam penatalayanan yang setia kepada alam. Seorang ilmuwan atau insinyur yang lengkap juga harus peka pada berbagai tantangan etika dalam bidangnya.</p>