Agama adalah ungkapan persentuhan dunia dan sejarah dengan Yang Kudus dan keyakinan serta perayaan keterlibatan Yang Kudus dalam dunia serta sejarah. Dunia menyatakan dimensi tempat, sementara sejarah merujuk pada sisi waktu dari yang profan. Yang Kudus dibedakan dari yang profan, karena Dia tidak dibatasi oleh waktu dan ruang. Dalam arti ini Yang Kudus bersifat absolut, memberi dasar pertama, …
In the mid-1960's Christian and Marxist intellectuals held a series of meetings designed to explore their differences and their mutual hopes for humanity. Promoted by the decline in Stalinism and by the liberal spirit of Pope John XXIII, those first confreres were also moved by the dimly-perceived intuition that they were, in the words of Teilhard de Chardin, "travelling on the same road" and t…
This book should be read by every bishop, every vocation director, every member of every seminary staff, every person involved in the recruitment, formation and evaluation of ministers of every kind, and any and every individual who has ever written or lectured or just 'sounded off' on the so-called vocations crisis. When the Lilly Endowment initially funded this important project, it suggested…
Istilah “sakramen politik” barangkali sudah membuat Anda mengernyitkan dahi, bahkan lebih jauh Anda mengira sebagai ajaran baru yang ‘menyesatkan’ jemaat beriman. Saya berpegang pada ketetapan Konsili Trento (1545-1563) yang mengajarkan bahwa jumlah sakramen hanya tujuh (DS 844: Canones de sacramentis in genere). Sebelum penetapan oleh Konsili tersebut, jumlah sakramen dalam Gereja Kato…
This book does precisely what its title indicates. It discusses and makes as clear as possible what, in the authors' view, the church is, what are its limits, what should be its doctrine, what is the status of its ministry and the nature of its sacraments, and how in the present state of disunion, confusion and uncertainty we can conceive that the church of Jesus Christ exists. In other words, …