Saya senang mengikuti pola garapan buku ini. Ulasan mulai dengan mendalami beberapa dokumen Konsili Vatikan II dan belasan Ajaran Sosial Gereja sejak Rerum Novarum oleh Paus Leo XIII (1891) hingga Sri Paus Fransiskus. Sesudah itu, masalah dikaji dalam perspektif pemikiran politik klasik hingga kontemporer, serta diakhiri dengan usulan modul dan proses kaderisasi, mempersiapkan tugas kerasulan a…
The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not onl…
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Asian Christianity and Theology, with emphasis on how it has developed in different parts of the continent and in the different eras, especially since the end of colonialism in Asia. Asian Theology refers to a unique way of theological reflection characterized by specific methodologies that evolved in postcolonial Asia. Premised on the thin…
For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensées, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. This translation is the only one based on the Pensées as Pascal left…
Reformasi bukan hanya membuka keran demokratisasi serta kebebasan berekspresi yang sempat macet selama era totalitarianisme Orde Baru, melainkan juga menjebol tanggul besar sehingga ideologi-ideologi asing berupa revivalisme politik Islam membanjiri negeri kita. Tak butuh waktu lama, lahirlah gerakan-gerakan dan ormas-ormas Islam revivalis dengan bermacam variannya, seperti Tarbiyah, Partai Kea…
This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and …