Taking cues from science as well as mystical traditions, Boff finds that interrelatedness forms the key to a new paradigm. He critiques common approaches to ecology and discerns in the growing ecological awareness, and in the search for spirituality and meaning, the seeds of an alternative to a world of alienation, inequality and escalating natural destruction.
This work deals with the basic questions that are tackled by liberation theology - oppression, violence, domination and marginalization. It then goes on to show how the Christian faith can be used as an agent in promoting social and individual liberation, and how faith and politics relate.
In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference to believe that God is communion rather than solitude. Instead of God as solitary ruler standing above a static universe, Christian belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is movement, an eternal process of life, outward movement, and love. …
In this book, Brazilian Leonardo Boff, Franciscan priest and professor of theology, joins other contemporary theologians in defending both the truth and the practical value of the doctrine of the Trinity. For Boff, the community of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is not only the truth about God; it is also the prototype of human community dreamed of by those who wish to improve society, the model …
Dalam lebih dari 2000 tahun sejarahnya Kekristenan telah menjadi sangat rumit dengan aneka doktrin, sistem teologis, kode etik, ritus dan upacara serta pelbagai aturan kanonis dan hierarkis. Umat Kristen kebanyakan dan bahkan komunitas teologi menghadapi suatu kesulitan khusus ketika berupaya mengidentifikasi benang merah yang mengaitkan dan menyambung kembali secara selaras butir-butir utam…
Kalau ditanya ada berapa sakramen dalam Gereja? Semua orang tentu menjawab ada tujuh sakramen. Tetapi, Leonardo Boff, dalam bukunya ini menegaskan, ada banyak sakramen di dunia ini, bukan cuma tujuh. Sakramen adalah suatu cara berpikir yang melihat realitas bukan sebagai suatu tanda melainkan suatu simbol, tanda kehadiran Allah. Dia mengatakan, ”Tak seorang pun dapat mengerti sakramen sebelum…
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