Membangun Identitas Inklusif - Krisis Identitas Dalam Lensa Kajian Poskolonialisme

Multidimentional crisis which became more visible in the Covid-19 pademic era, actually rooted in the crisis of identity of Indonesia. It occurs, especially when identitys is considered as essential caracters or inherent features of this nation, inherited from the previous generation. The understanding of such kind of identity causes defensive, exclusive attitudes at the level of individual, communal, or even as a nation. In this perspective life is simply considered as an arena of contestation and will end up in the subordination of the others. By utilizing the lens of Postcolonial Theory, I axhibit the roots of that crisis of identity, and also propose a new perspective, which is comprehending identity as a production or a continuous process in a making. This new understanding of identity, I believe, will enable Indonesia to cope with the crisis, and to find ethical foundations in preserving and cultivating their life inclusively.

Konsep Persahabatan Dalam Pemikiran Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is a word that is very familiar to us and we often hear it in the daily people’s conversation. The public or general opinion understands that friendship is the same as a companionship or a meaning of friend has an identical sense with a companion or a colleague. But how about this identification? Is it true? This paper attempts to elaborate the friendship meanings, by presenting its motives (intentions) and purpose (finality), so that we can understand the signification of friendship. The object of this research is the concept of friendship in Thomas Aquinas' thought. And the approach used in this research is a critical historical study.

Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum: Kepedulian Dan Kerjasama Gerejawi Untuk Tanah Misi Dan Di Tanah Misi

The concern to the situation and condition to all other members of the Church and the collaboration for the welfare of the entire Church is the expression of communio (communion) which is the character of Christ Church. The arise of Church in the mission land and its development which like the mustard seed is the fruit of the concern and collaboration of the missionaries showed by the community and Church which have been founded along the history. Considering Church resources are always limited, every form of across continents concern and collaboration should be done effectively. In the process of the evangelization in the mission land, these concern and collaboration encounter various forms of initiatives; starting from the simple, spontaneous, sporadic and individual to the consistent, coordinated organizations. These concern and collaboration often find frictions, conflicts of interest, impartialities, and injustice; especially concerning the implementation of the power of jurisdiction in the mission land and the submission to the superiority of the mission leaders. The negative excesses are seen and observed objectively and corrected to attain the more effective concerns and collaboration for the sake of the development of the mission work. The apostolic see is the central organ has explored and successfully founded an effective and sustainable missionary collaboration system, from the commissio to the mandate system. Nowadays, the missionary concern and collaboration across particular churches have not been centralized, but assigned to each local communities and particular Churches, to develop mutual collaboration according to the mutual need and projects through the written agreement to mutual minister

Merayakan Persahabatan Yang Memerdekakan Refleksi Atas Pandangan Odo Casel Tentang Misteri Kehadiran Karya Keselamatan Dalam Liturgi

Scripture shows that liturgy is the basic reason why GOD saved his people so that God’s chosen people might freely worship God (Ex 4:23) in spirit and truth’ (Jn 4:24). Liturgy becomes a mediator and a moment for the real presence of God’s saving deed. The relationship between God and His/Her people is drawn into a reality in our liturgy. Odo Casel reflects on our relationship with God is not a mere speculative idea but it is an objective reality that happens in our daily life. The Encyclic Mediator Dei emphasizes the Divine aspect of God’s grace in the history of salvation that restored our relationship with God.

Makna Persahabatan Sebuah Tinjauan Dari Perspektif Filsafat

This article is meant to be a philosophical reflection on the meaning of friendship. As evident from its sub-titles, the article is divided into four parts. First, it deals with the notion of friendship, in which the genuine friendship, or in Aristotle’s term called the perfect form of friendship, is distinguished from the egoistic or the imperfect forms. Referring to Aristotle’s account of friendship, the perfect form of friendship is a friendship in which each friend values the other for their own particular qualities, for their own sake, for their virtuous character and not for the pleasure or utilities they can provide. The imperfect forms of friendship usually do not last long, because the tie of friendship will get loose and finally dissolved when it does not bring either pleasure or utilities each friend wants. Second, following Aristotle, I try to explain why friendship is considered important for human happiness. Third, the element of right and duty that get involved in the personal relation of friendship is being addressed. Finally, due to the increasing importance of online communication nowadays, especially during this pandemic corona virus outbreak, I would like also to address the opportunities and challenges of online friendship or the relation of friendship mediated by social media. In this regard, the opportunity to foster online friendship is bigger under the model of moral friendship according to Kant and Kierkegaard in which universal love is emphasized, and Nietzsche’s model in which the agonistic nature of friendship is highly valued, than under the Aristotle’s model.

Persahabatan Sejati Dalam Islam

A friendship in Islam is important. Even, a Muslim is suggested to be careful whom s/he is friends with. Making friends with the pious, good, right, honest, and other virtuous characters, will last forever to heaven. Only the prudent is able to be friends until heaven. The Quran emphasizes that friendship is not limited worldly relationship only, but it also determining our position in hereafter life (QS. az-Zukhruf: 67). A Muslim can meet everyone, but to make friends, make sure your friend is faithful (QS al-Maidah: 51, HR. Abu Daud, Tirmidzi). How precious to have a friend is. There are many verses in Quran and the SAW Prophet’s sunnah which contains the study of friendship.

Jürgen Moltmann: Persahabatan Sebagai Antisipasi Kepenuhan Harapan

Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of hope enacts the idea of hope as the foundation of friendship. Those who want to live in a friendship should be open to each other, acknowledging that misapprehension and misunderstanding are possible in a friendship journey. To achieve the value of salvation in experiencing friendship, one needs to have the courage to turn or direct his/her vision to the experience of God. God Himself has experienced that His logging to reach man and have good relationship with His people is obstructed by man’s stubbornness to refuse His love. Jesus’ passion and death is the peak of man’s refusal to God’s plan of love. Similarly, the faithful is able to open his/her heart and direct his/her vision to his/her friends only. The openness of one’s heart has the character of inviting and waiting until the right time his/her friends have the courage to open themselves in a salvaging relationship. Until the time comes, for the faithful, the friendship with God is comforting and supporting in every failure and rejection. The task of every Christian is to facilitate and mend the relationship. Moltmannian’s hope shows that the relationship between God, the Eschatology, and hope, is manifested in a commitment to inclusivity; the ministry to those in need, environment concern, and faithfulness to those who are poor and marginalized.

Menyoal Persahabatan Sebagai Problem Relasionalitas: Sebuah Kontruksi Atas Konsep Alteritas Emanuel Levinas Dan Pluralitas Hannah Arendt

Alterity, plurality, and relationship are the three key words which summarize the whole content of this article. The first key word is the core of Emanuel Levinas’ Ethics, the second key word is the summary of Hannah Arendt’s the essence of politics, and the third is from the construction on the concepts of alterity and plurality. From the attempt to construct the two concepts, the writer assumes that alterity and plurality are the basis to understand friendship as the problem of a relationship. The method used in this article is hermeneutics on the inter-subjectivity based on Emanuel Levinas’ Ethics and Hannah Arendt’s thought on politics. The findings on this construction is that friendship which is based on the principles of relationship is the solution of the egology – self-enhancement and ‘heterophobia’ – the phobia to other people in the daily life these days.

Homo Homini Amicus: Tanggungjawab Kultural Gereja Dalam Zaman Ini

This article is to promote the values of friendship from the Christianity anthropology perspective in the frame of nation community as a shared-home. Very often, friendship is reduced exclusively on ‘in-group’ and enriched by primordial mentality (religion, culture, race, communities in the society). They who don’t agree with the values lived by the ‘in-group’ regarded as ‘the others’, even, treated as dangerous opponents. Firstly, to build a great cultured society, the concept of ‘friendship’ (Latin: amicitia; Greek: philia) should be re-defined. In the Christianity anthropology, friendship, as the highest form of relationship, has its source in the belief that man is created in ‘God’s image’ (Gen 1:26-28), who has the responsibility to manage the shared-world to live together in harmony. Secondly, the Catholic education institutions, from elementary to university, need to continually self-empowered with the spirituality of friendship which promotes more civilized humanity, ‘with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength’ (Mark 12:30)

Kolegialitas: Suatu Bentuk Formasi Berkelanjutan Imam

Ongoing formation is a subject which is very actual at this present time in relation with priesthood which has been pointed out by the Second Vatican Council. The church has promulgated various documents to this urgent need. One aspect of the ongoing formation is priesthood collegiality to Jesus Christ as high priest, to church where is incardinated, to hierarchy as his institution, to the other priests as his colleagues and to lay people who is also his peer of pastoral service. The intention this writing is to revive priest that the effectiveness and efficacy of pastoral service is collegiality.