{"title":"When Hope And Tension Collide","authors":"Hendry Ongkowidjojo","doi":"10.51688/vc8.1.2021.art1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc8.1.2021.art1","url":null,"abstract":"Through a narrative criticism approach, this article describes how the theme of hope-and-tension form a common thread for the entire Gospel of Mark. Understanding how Mark maintains hope and tension throughout his Gospel will help readers explore Mark's Gospel in a more vivid, integral, and relevant way.","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124086901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sumbangsih Etika John Frame dalam Mengisi Pengharapan Masyarakat 5.0 di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0","authors":"Sutjipto Subeno","doi":"10.51688/vc7.2.2020.art3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc7.2.2020.art3","url":null,"abstract":"Hadirnya Revolusi Industri 4.0 telah menyebabkan terjadinya berbagai disrupsi bidang kehidupan termasuk bidang etika. Ancaman disrupsi ini menggagas harapan terbentuknya Masyarakat 5.0 yang diharapkan akan menghasilkan masyarakat global yang maju, berteknologi tinggi, sejahtera dan bermoral. Harapan ini perlu dikritisi, karena terlihat kurangnya pembahasan etis yang terelaborasi di dalam pemikiran Masyarakat 5.0. Iman Kristen (Reformed) melihat pentingnya aspek etika dalam kehidupan masyarakat, karena kehidupan manusia tidak bisa terlepas dari masalah dan penilaian etis. Konsep etika John Frame yang memiliki tiga perspektif: normatif, situasional, dan eksistensial, dapat mengisi kekurangan ini di dalam perjuangan orang Kristen melalui era Revolusi Industri 4.0 ini.","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127377686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PENDASARAN TEOLOGIS BAGI PEMIKIRAN POLITIK JOHN CALVIN","authors":"Antonius Un","doi":"10.51688/VC2.1.2015.ART5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/VC2.1.2015.ART5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Sebagai seorang teolog, John Calvin mendasarkan pemikiran politiknya atas doktrin-doktrin teologis. Dalam kajian terhadap pemikiran politiknya, paling tidak dalam bagian pemerintahan aristokratis-demokratis, terlihat Calvin mengasumsikan sejumlah doktrin penting yakni doktrin Alkitab, doktrin kedaulatan Allah dan doktrin dosa. Ketiga doktrin ini memberi pengaruh paling tidak, bagi eksistensi pemerintahan, pentingnya hukum, dan kepemimpinan plural.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126459500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"KREDIBILITAS & KONTRIBUSI INJIL KEEMPAT TERHADAP STUDI YESUS SEJARAH","authors":"Audy Santoso","doi":"10.51688/VC2.1.2015.ART3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/VC2.1.2015.ART3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Para ahli Yesus Sejarah secara umum hanya menerima injil Sinoptik dan menolak kredibilitas Injil Keempat menjadi sumber mereka. Hal ini mengakibatkan munculnya presentasi yang cacat akan gambaran Yesus Sejarah dalam setiap fase perkembangannya. Pencarian ketiga dari Yesus Sejarah, misalnya seperti yang dikerjakan oleh E. P. Sanders, berusaha mengoreksi gambaran yang cacat ini dari pencarian-pencarian sebelumnya. Tapi upayanya kembali gagal melampaui palang representasi Yesus Sejarah yang sejati disebabkan pandangannya yang skeptis terhadap injil keempat. Di artikel ini, bukti-bukti ekstrinsik dan intrinsik dipaparkan untuk menunjukkan kredibilitas akan Injil Keempat. Lalu, setelah menunjukkan kekurangan dari pencarian-pencarian yang sebelumnya, beberapa catatan akan kontribusi positif diberikan melalui Injil keempat sehingga Yesus Sejarah yang sejati dapat dimunculkan.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131963745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GLORIA DEI AS A KEY TO UNDERSTAND CALVIN'S DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION","authors":"Billy Kristanto","doi":"10.51688/VC2.1.2015.ART1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/VC2.1.2015.ART1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000This article analyses the doctrine of predestination in Calvin's thought and offers an alternative to understand it from the perspective of the glory of God. With historical and systematic theological argumentations, the writer offers a key thought for understanding the complexity of Calvin's doctrine of predestination. The idea of the glory of God can serve as a key to understand the doctrine.?\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125700319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FIRST ROOTED, THEN GROUNDED: THE POSITION OF THE CHURCH INSTITUTION IN KUYPER’S ECCLESIOLOGY","authors":"Surya Harefa","doi":"10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art2","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits the position of the institutional church in the ecclesiology of Abraham Kuyper (1837—1920). Following the growing interest in the life and work of Kuyper in North America, some scholars pay attention to the importance of his ecclesiology. However, it is common to consider that Kuyper in his later life preferred the aspect of the church as organism and thus marginalizing the church as institution. After exploring his ecclesiological concept on the distinction of the church as organism and institution, this paper examines several major works of Kuyper on the institutional church written in his later life. Finding that Kuyper consistently viewed the institutional church highly, I argue that his restriction toward the church as insitution is to strengthen and provide a stable position of the institutional church in modern society. \u0000KEYWORDS: Kuyper, church as institution, church as organism, public theology","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129082831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PAUL AT ATHENS: FRESH INSIGHTS","authors":"W. Edgar","doi":"10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the challenges of Christian principles to adapt biblical message to today. It start with the growing trend toward individualism, and privatization of religion, violence and finally persecution. I will analyze the apologetics method in the famous speech given by the apostle Paul on Mars Hill, recorded in Acts 17:16-34. Then, finally making proposals on how Paul's approach to be used in the practice of today's Christian apologetics based on the challenges given above. \u0000KEYWORDS: Paul, privatization, faith, religion, apologetics, individualism.","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127019255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMOTION AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE POLEMIC BETWEEN REFORMED AND PENTECOSTAL/ CHARISMATIC","authors":"Muriwali Yanto Matalu","doi":"10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art5","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance of emotions in Christian worship have become an important issue particularly when polemic on this topic emerges between Reformed and Pentecostal/Charismatic Christians. In this paper, I strive to study and analyze the emotions both in history and in recent study to find out the concept and meaning of that term in the hope that this research contributes to both Reformed and Pentecostal/Charismatic toward a better worship in the future. I start with presenting the polemic between Reformed and Pentecostal/Charismatic, then describing the concept and meaning of the emotions in history and in recent research, and finally, making proposals on how emotions to be used in Christian worship. \u0000KEYWORDS: Emotions, history of emotions, Reformed, Pentecostal/Charismatic, Christian worship","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133672461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE ABIDING LEGACY OF THE REFORMATION’S CONFESSIONAL ORTHODOXY: THE REQUIRED VOWS OF WESTMINSTER SEMINARY PROFESSORS AND NAPARC MINISTERS","authors":"Peter A. Lillback","doi":"10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art3","url":null,"abstract":"Since the Reformed faith has been characterized from its sixteenth century origins, thus for both Catholic and Protestant the century was an era characterized by faith speaking through the composition of their respective confessions of faith. This article begin to examine the problems raised by confessional subscription for Protestantism and its solutions. The various purposes for confessional subscription to the historic creeds of the Reformation and confessional subscription at Westminster Theological Seminary, and finally confessional subscription in the PCA and the OPC also discussed. This article argues that the abiding legacy of the Reformation's Confessional Orthodoxy manifested in the required vows of Westminster Seminary professors and NAPARC ministers. \u0000KEYWORDS: creeds, confessions, catechisms, Reformed.","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125736505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHILDLIKE REVERENCE AND TRUST: CALVIN AND THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM ON PRAYER","authors":"A. Huijgen","doi":"10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art4","url":null,"abstract":"Prayer is a central theme in both Calvin's Institutes and the Heidelberg Catechism, although it is a neglected theme in present-day dogmatics. The present article compares Calvin's and the Heidelberg Catechism's stance on prayer in the context of the renewal of prayer as an effect of the Reformation of the 16th century. Both emphasise the experiential character of prayer and the importance of God's promise. The discussion of 'Amen' serves as a grand finale to the Heidelberg Catechism. \u0000KEYWORDS: Calvin, Heidelberg Catechism, prayer, promise, Reformation, experience.","PeriodicalId":129165,"journal":{"name":"VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132493720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}