MELINTASPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i3.5387
Nicolaus Agung Suprobo
{"title":"Model-Model Partisipasi Kaum Awam Katolik dalam Ekumenisme Berdasarkan Imaji-Imaji Biblis dan Inspirasi Teologis","authors":"Nicolaus Agung Suprobo","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i3.5387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i3.5387","url":null,"abstract":"History shows that there were divisions within the Church. After the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church began to be more open in contributing efforts for the restoration of Christian unity. One of the results is the publication of Unitatis Redintegratio. In this document Art. 5, it is emphasised that ecumenism is the responsibility of all members of the Church, including the laity. Hence the participation of the laity is important in the process of restoring unity among Christians. The apparently low participation of Catholic laity in ecumenism might have been due to the risk of blurring their identity as Catholics. Based on this issue, this article offers models of participation for Catholic laity in ecumenism. Models are offered for the reason that they are flexible, can be interpreted according to the contextual challenges, and contain patterns of relationship that can help Catholic laity take initiatives in promoting dialogue. Five models offered in this article are model of faith conversation, model of friendship, model of sharing of spiritual wealth, model of dialogue of life, and model of familial visits. These five models can encourage close interpersonal relationships and are inclusive in their characteristics, so that the laity can use them spontaneously and independently in establishing relationships. Through these models, Catholics are motivated to contribute to the Church’s efforts towards unity and to participate more actively in the ecumenical dialogue and cooperation.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81047725","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i3.5388
Sefrianus Juhani, Benediktus Denar, F. X. A. Riyanto
{"title":"Dialektika Konsep Ketuhanan dalam Ritual Lea sose pada Masyarakat Manggarai dan Gereja Katolik","authors":"Sefrianus Juhani, Benediktus Denar, F. X. A. Riyanto","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i3.5388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i3.5388","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to dialogue the concept of divinity in Manggarai, Indonesia, with the teachings of the Catholic Church. The concept of God in the Manggarai community has some similarities with the doctrine of God in the Catholic Church, that is, concerning the acknowledgment of God’s existence, involvement, and care. However, there are also matters that are quite different and that are not found in each respective context. On the one hand, the similarities can help those involved in catechesis with fresh understandings. On the other hand, the differences may enrich the outlook into knowledge about the concept of divinity, both in the context of living the Church’s teachings as well as in the context of being member of the cultural community. The results of the dialogue as explored in this article open the possibilities to help decrease the practices of syncretism on matters of faith in the Manggarai Catholic community. The approaches used by the authors to trace the concept of divinity in the two contexts are mainly qualitative with ethnographic and documentation methods. The findings are a mainstay for pastoral agents in determining certain themes for catechesis, especially those related to the concept of Godhead.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86352376","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i3.5389
Benedictus Raditya Wijaya
{"title":"Memaknai Peristiwa Kematian dalam Terang Estetika Teologis Kristiani","authors":"Benedictus Raditya Wijaya","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i3.5389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i3.5389","url":null,"abstract":"Death is constantly frightening, even for the believers. It is an event where people mourn as they grieve the permanent loss of their loved ones. It often causes irrational judgments, and destroys the harmony within a family. Some Christians still find it difficult to accept. The Church’s teachings address the event of death as part of the believer’s reality. Death is seen as the culmination of transformative experience in Christian life and faith, so that news on someone’s death is not regarded as an event of destruction, but rather an experience of faith. This article offers an interpretation that death is not seen as merely ‘death’ from human perspective, but a passage towards a mystical and aesthetic point of view which illustrates a sign of God’s calling to humans to enter the beauty and union with God.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86817354","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i3.5385
Oktavianus Arianto
{"title":"Katekese Keluarga Kristiani di Paroki-Paroki Daerah dalam Terang Seruan Apostolik Amoris Laetitia","authors":"Oktavianus Arianto","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i3.5385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i3.5385","url":null,"abstract":"Christian families are called to participate in the missions of the Church. One of the missions is the proclamation of Christian faith and the propagation of moral values. Christian families’ participation in the proclamation process can be carried out through family catechesis. Family members can do family catechesis in the light of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The apostolic exhortation speaks, among other things, about the joy of love in the family. In the family catechesis, each member of the family is the subject of catechesis. The proclamation of Christian faith and the propagation of moral values in the family can use simple and contextual catechetical methods, especially among the parishes in rural area. This article explores the roles of family members, the themes for catechesis, and the methods of family catechesis to be used in rural area in Indonesia. A contextual catechesis is a form of catechesis that takes into account the experiences of the faithful as a source of family catechesis in relation to the Scripture. Family catechesis can also draw on cultural components, especially the local wisdoms which do not contradict the teachings of the Church, as part of the method of proclamation of the Christian faith and of propagation of moral values.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74448857","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i2.5380
H. Tedjoworo
{"title":"Chronicles - August, 2020","authors":"H. Tedjoworo","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i2.5380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i2.5380","url":null,"abstract":"'Chronicles' is a journal column of \"MELINTAS\" which contains information about the various events, congresses, conferences, symposia, necrologies, publications, and periodicals in the fields of philosophy and theology.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86840806","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i2.5378
Bahtiar Jusuf Marulitua Tumanggor
{"title":"Ekologi Akal Budi: Memahami Alam sebagai Kesatuan menurut Gregory Bateson","authors":"Bahtiar Jusuf Marulitua Tumanggor","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i2.5378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i2.5378","url":null,"abstract":"While earth has been a living place for human beings, ecology crisis results from the speeding of human civilisation with its sudden jumps on science and technology. This crisis has caused damages in climate changes, global warming, and nature destructions. In spite of the changes in human behaviour, ecological crisis is also caused by epistemological crisis. Mechanistic paradigm leads humans to classify nature based on their own preferences. At the same time, positioning humans over nature brings humans’ hegemony. This article offers Gregory Bateson’s epistemological ideas to understand the unity between human beings and nature. Systemic paradigm can be used to sense nature as oneness of system that leads to the concept of sacrality of the earth. The concept of a sacred earth brings forth a systemic paradigm that shows nature as united with humans. Understanding sacrality as an intrinsic value of nature is a good epistemological start to maintain the ecological sustainability.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76673088","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i2.5379
Maria Kirana Rucitra
{"title":"Implikasi Pemahaman Kehidupan yang Baik pada Perkembangan Konsep Diri dalam Filsafat","authors":"Maria Kirana Rucitra","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i2.5379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i2.5379","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout their lives, human beings have been shadowed with existential queries such as “What is my purpose?” and “How should I reach that purpose?” These big questions arise in accordance with an assumption that a good life must be a purposeful life. However, the same questions often lead to dilemmatic disposition of following my own goal or following other ideals designed by institutions or even theories. This article elaborates humans’ tendencies to perceive themselves as a fixated part of and to lean their purpose of life on the so-called grand narratives. One of the narratives shows that humans’ purpose in life is rooted in the understanding of humans’ essence. Humans’ essence is here viewed in two aspects, that is, the ‘centered’ self and the ‘decentered’ self. However, these two aspects are not without consequences. The centered self understood in the light of Aristotle and Kant holds a bigger possibility of ignoring historical and cultural values which basically play the pivotal parts of a human being’s constitution. On the other hand, the decentered self understood in the light of Richard Rorty tends to heavily impact the clarity of the path the self along with its purposes. This article attempts to unfold the problems around human being’s ‘center’ and their implications to the concept of self.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74726693","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i2.5376
Haryo Tejo Bawono
{"title":"Mengimajinasikan Ulang “Yang Sakral”: Anateisme, Pertaruhan, dan Hal-Hal yang Tidak Selesai","authors":"Haryo Tejo Bawono","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i2.5376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i2.5376","url":null,"abstract":"Religion has often been defined as a response to the sacred. However, this also means that religion is considered meaningful if only one has an idea of the sacred. The problem surfaces when religion seems to be dominated with its brutal and savage face. In these tendencies, any criticism addressed to religion or any suggestion for the sake of changing views about religion will never be considered meaningful or taken into account if the believers do not touch the issue of the sacred at all. This article invites its readers to explore and to reimagine the idea of the sacred and at the same time offers different and imaginative perspectives in the light of Richard Kearney’s concept of anatheism. Humans do not need to separate the sacred from the so-called sensus numinis, not only because they can become and move towards the sacred, but because their lives, bodies, minds, and actions are esentially sacred.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81872762","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i2.5377
Nicolaus Yudi Ardhana
{"title":"Telaah Atas Fenomena Mimetika Kekerasan di Ruang Maya dalam Terang Pemikiran René Girard","authors":"Nicolaus Yudi Ardhana","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i2.5377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i2.5377","url":null,"abstract":"Internet and cyberspace are now loaded with various forms of violent material. Violence tends to be contagious and could be easily imitated by someone, since humans are naturally mimetic creatures. This situation may create serious problems such as desensitization, mimetics of violence, banality of violence, and justification of the acts of violence. Violence is continuously replicated and imitated both in the cyberspace and in the day-to-day reality. Even now violence is rapidly widespread in various forms and is increasingly difficult to contain. René Girard, with his theory of mimetics, tries to dismantle the mimetic mechanism that has been rooted in the acts of violence. Religion, culture, education, and the state seem not able to provide alternative ways to respond to this situation. By way of exploring Girard’s critical ideas, this article attempts to offer some alternatives to respond to the situation of violence in the cyberspace and the internet. The mimetic spiral of violence could be terminated when humans become more critical and creative as “positive imitators”.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89908314","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}
MELINTASPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.26593/mel.v36i2.5375
Agustina Kusuma Dewi, Y. Piliang, I. Irfansyah, Acep Iwan Saidi
{"title":"Transposition of Drupadi in Garin Nugroho's Setan Jawa: Woman as a Javanese Symbolic Act","authors":"Agustina Kusuma Dewi, Y. Piliang, I. Irfansyah, Acep Iwan Saidi","doi":"10.26593/mel.v36i2.5375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26593/mel.v36i2.5375","url":null,"abstract":"Art film is a film full of symbols. The film Setan Jawa by Garin Nugroho (2016) brings the concept of a silent film and the cinematic-orchestral collaboration with various standards across arts, while also adapts some cultural narratives in the Javanese context. This film presents Drupadi narrative, one of the Javanese Wayang cultural narratives. Drupadi is often referred to as a symbol of women’s loyalty and obedience to the universal law, through her obedience to her husband and mother, although this obedience is contrary to the self (I) concept. With the help of textual analysis, this article aims to identify the adaptation of Drupadi’s cultural narrative that is creatively transposed in the film Setan Jawa. The results show that there is a director’s personal code (idiolect) in the film, that offers women’ representation different from the conventions in the Javanese culture. While the conclusion might be arguable, one can reflect on the symbolic act of women’s representation being creatively transposed not as subordinate but as having the power to fulfill their own destiny.","PeriodicalId":18472,"journal":{"name":"MELINTAS","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77067949","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}