PERAN PEDIDIKAN KRISTEN BAGI PERTUMBUHAN KARAKTER ANAK DAN REMAJA

This paper discusses the role of Christian education in the character development of children and adolescents. The purpose of this paper is to find out how important character growth is for children and adolescents.This paper shows how to make children and adolescents with Christian characters reflect Christian values, which are based on their spiritual relationship with God who is the center of Love, Peace and Forgiveness. Children and adolescents with Christian character will build good relationships with others and other creatures so that communication will build mutual respect, tolerance, and live in harmony even in differences and diversity.

A MORTE NA PERSPECTIVA BIOLÓGICA E ESPIRITUAL NA RELAÇÃO DE UM FENÔMENO NATURAL CELULAR

A morte biológica é um processo que se relaciona com uma série de ações biológicas celulares sinalizadoras. Na busca de compreensão da alma é possível sugerirmos proposições que possam interagir e integrar os corpos físico e espiritual. Perante proteínas celulares responsáveis pela proteção celular e eliminação de componentes tóxicos, buscamos objetivar uma associação entre as perspectivas filosóficas, inclusive na religião para o processo de morte. A morte deve ser compreendida como condição natural para os seres vivos, e que desencadeia a esperança na própria vida. Na morte programada e prevista pelas células biológicas, seja por motivo de saúde ou até mesmo a finalização de um tempo de vida, as etiquetas químicas da morte entram em ação. Morte e vida estão em íntima relação biológica e espiritual. É nesse sentido que a morte também é um fator de manutenção das tradições e preocupações humanas para uma evolução biológica e divina. Palavras-chave: A Morte Biológica. E Espiritual. Fenômeno Natural Celular. Abstract Biological death is a process that is related to a series of signaling cellular biological actions. In the search for understanding the soul, it is possible to suggest propositions that can interact and integrate the physical and spiritual bodies. Faced with cellular proteins responsible for cellular protection and elimination of toxic components, we seek to aim at an association between philosophical perspectives, including religion for the process of death. Death must be understood as a natural condition for living beings, which triggers hope in life itself. In programmed and predicted death by biological cells, whether for health reasons or even the end of a lifetime, the chemical labels of death come into play. Death and life are in an intimate biological and spiritual relationship. It is in this sense that death is also a factor in maintaining human traditions and concerns for a biological and divine evolution. Keywords: Biological Death. And Spiritual. Signaling Cellular biological Actions.

Conclusion

The concluding remarks bring to the discussion the sense that behind the effort to put feelings into words there is a deeper, spiritual need to connect with language and the world, similar to a prayer arising from language and the world, and returning to them. The language to which we all have a right, and use to explain our lives to ourselves, is given to us both as a gift and a responsibility. For the author, the spiritual relationship with language is essential in establishing that sense that one can speak and write with the hope that one will be heard.

The Theocentric Worldview: Sustainability Education for Religion and Spiritual

Several recent studies started to relate religious beliefs and sustainable behavior. For this reason, there is a high possibility that students’ religious beliefs can be a strong impetus for practicing sustainability knowledge. The education for sustainable development (ESD) in universities should not be separated from the meaningful religious belief of university students. Therefore, we proposed the theocentric worldview which centered on a religion-spiritual relationship with God to be included as a part of ESD. This worldview is important in making ESD content meaningful for religious university students. In this paper, we used a religion-spiritual concept from Islamic teachings as an example of how a religious belief can be embedded within ESD for university students.

Reflection of The Relations Between Human Beings & Animal in Kurdish Poetry

Since the beginning of its appearance on this planet, human being has felt alien in one hand because he has not been familiar to anything in the wide nature he has lived in and in the other hand he has been afraid and felt hesitated due to his fear to from all other creatures. But gradually he has been familiar with nature and his environment and tried at the beginning to align himself with it then to overcome it and to use them for his own interest, especially the animals which are the second sequence after human being in the planet. This align and controlling is not a matter of one night and day, but it has gone through certain stages and periods and has taken certain forms until it reached to the form, we can see it today. This thesis has tried to point out the types of those relationships based on sequences and their reflections in Kurdish poetry which show the perspective of Kurdish poets towards animals. The thesis points out five types of relationships between human being & animals based on their sequence and appearance as following: Conflict Relationship. Interest Relationship. Friendship Relationship. Spiritual Relationship. Artistic Relationship. Each of those relationships is explained theoretically except the spiritual relationship, examples are given for all other relationships in Kurdish poetry. The reason why we have not seen example in Kurdish poetry for spiritual relationship is to the fact that we believe Kurdish society is an Islamic society and its religious perspective has not allowed this relationship to exceed friendship relationship and to reach spiritual relationship. Even, the friendship relationship sometimes has been based on interest relationship.

INTERACTION OF ARTISTIC PERCEPTION WITH NATURE AND THE SYMBOLIC RESPONSE OF THIS INTERACTION IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Artists perceive nature in a variety of ways and interpret nature with the works they create as a result of their perceptions. Landscape paintings, which is described as “görünü” picture in Turkish, are not only a depiction of nature, but also a symbolism that shows the spirituality of the artist. In this study, the main lines of the relationship between nature and human are handled in the context of “görünü” pictures and the idea that “görünü” pictures are symbolic pictures of a spiritual relationship that the painter establishes with nature, beyond the purpose of depicting nature only in a documentary or realistic style, is tried to be examined. Keywords: landscape, artistic perception, nature, Naturalism, spirituality, supreme, icon, Symbolism

DINAMIKA ‘NGAJI ONLINE’ RAMADHAN DI MASA PAGEBLUK COVID-19 PADA KOMUNITAS PESANTREN

This paper reveals the dynamics of the changing therapeutic relationship of the kiai with students (santri) in learning (ngaji) from face-to-face to online models in the time of COVID-19. The research method is ethnographic-hermeneutic. In the face-to-face learning system, therapeutics occur because of the warm relationship by looking directly at the kiai's face which makes the students feel calm. In the “Ngaji Online” the therapeutic system switches to environmental settings that make students feel safe and comfortable. In the “Ngaji Online” system, the warmth of relationships begins to weaken. However, this weakness can be covered up because the spiritual relationship between the kiai and the students still feels strong. This spiritual relationship is the key to therapeutic for the Islamic boarding school.

Interpretation of the image of the Goddess Tara by Zanabazar compared to that by his predecesors and followers (from Sri Lanka to Siberia)

In continuation of the study of the art heritage of Zanabazar (1635–1723), we have traced the connection between the textual and art systems of the Buddhist cult ofTaragoddess. This goddess was of particular importance for the master Zanabazar. In his turn, Zanabazar was recognized as the incarnation of the great Tibetan scholar Jetsun Taranatha (1575–1634), whose name means “Protected byTara”. Undur-Gegen Zanabazar had deep spiritual relationship with the Savior Goddess both from his previous incarnations as well as directly transmitted by his teachers, especially the IV Panchen Lama Lobsan Choiky Gyaltsen (1570–1662). The article deals with outstanding sculptural images of Tara by Dzanabazar and also by the artists of earlier times and by the followers of his style who came fromSri Lanka,Nepal,Tibet,Mongolia, Buryatia. The actual objects are currently preserved in various collections throughout the world. Among them that of the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan and the Rudin Museums in the United States, the Potala in Lhasa, the State Hermitage and the Russian Ethnographical Museum in St. Petersburg and Mongolian museums of Ulaanbaatar. Specific examples show how the canonical Buddhist standards of iconography were implemented under the influence of different regional ethnic craft traditions. The works by famous Buddhist artists, such as Sonam Gyaltsen (16th cent.), Choiing Dorje (1604–1664) as well as little-known Buryat masters of the late 19th century were used to compare with the masterpieces by Zanabazar.

Duchowe rozmowy z Ojcem. Wartości kulturowe i literackie w poezji Wojciecha Kudyby

The subject of my research interests in this article is a poem by Wojciech Kudyba titled “Dzie-sięć słów Ojca” (Ten words of the Father), whose philosophical and religious dimension directs our attention to the personalism which was close to John Paul II’s convictions. Kudyba is a poet of reflection, philosophical and religious pondering on the meaning of existence. This is evidenced by clear allusions and references to the Bible, as well as the relational character of the work, focused on building a spiritual relationship. In the analyzed poem, there is a strong desire to establish a spiritual relationship, a deep, intimate relationship with God. The world of spiritual experiences presented in this way finds its peculiar expression in the language of poetic images. The desire to meet the Father somehow anchors faith in a dream. While interpreting Kudyba’s poem, I will not be dealing with the problem of sacrum in literature. I will rather refer to the way in which the well-known archetypes and symbols function in poetry. I will be interested in the acts of creative consciousness, heading for sublimation, or creation of substitute reality. Since sublimation is the dominant and constitutive feature of poetry in the dimension of a peculiar experience of emotionally designed reality, I will try to enrich the leading structural analysis in this work with a few threads (or perhaps insights) derived from Gaston Bachelard’s epistemology.

Crossing Boundaries: Images of Christina of Markyate in the St. Albans Psalter

The St. Albans Psalter is an English illuminated manuscript dating back to the twelfth century. The psalter has been connected to Christina of Markyate, a twelfth-century anchoress, for whom the work appears to have been made. Many images in the St. Albans Psalter depict the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, who is seen interacting with the boundaries of the colourful illustration. This article will study the images of Mary Magdalene in the St. Albans Psalter and will seek to re-evaluate her spiritual relationship with the twelfth-century recluse Christina of Markyate. Although the connection between Christina and Mary Magdelene has been recognized and reassessed, this study offers a contemporary outlook on the visual iconography, suggesting that this relationship is, in fact, far closer than previously demonstrated. By analyzing images in which the hand of Mary Magdalene crosses illustrated boundaries, this study will demonstrate the connection between these instances and Christina’s isolation within the boundaries of her anchoritic hold.