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Papers by Joas Adiprasetya
Exchange, May 12, 2014
This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,lDO character... more This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,lDO characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see brill.com/brill-typeface. Manuscripts and books for review should be sent to the Managing Editor, Freek L. Bakker, c/o Exchange,
Jakartaxiii, 100 hlm.; 21 c
BIA': Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen Kontekstual
:By using “symbolic engagement” as its method for thinking of the relationship between Church an... more :By using “symbolic engagement” as its method for thinking of the relationship between Church and the public space, this article proposes a constructive public theology that emphasizes the threefold prophetic task: critique, solidarity, and hope. Such a prophetic task must be carried on in the dialectic between the church’s faithfulness to the Kingdom of God and its participation in the world dominated by other kingdoms or empires. Therefore, any public theology must assert the identity of the church as a faithful presence, which simultaneously prophetic and hospitable. Keywords: symbolic engagement; prophetic; friendship; faithful presence Abstrak: Dengan mempergunakan “keterlibatan simbolis” sebagai metode berpikir bagi relasi Gereja dan ruang publik, makalah ini mengusulkan sebuah konstruksi teologi publik yang menampilkan tugas profetis dengan tiga poros, yaitu kritik, solidaritas, dan pengharapan. Tugas profetis tersebut harus dijalani dalam ketegangan di dalam kesetiaan Gere...
Jurnal Teologi
This article investigates the possibility of the presence of the Church in the the public space t... more This article investigates the possibility of the presence of the Church in the the public space through the presence of Christian persons in their various everyday spheres. By employing the dyadic understanding of abiding-and-go (Michael Gorman) and abiding-and-sending (the Generous Love document), I argue that Christians represent the whole church in their presence in the public space. In turn, by representing the whole church, Christians also make the Trinitarian communion present through their public engagement. As such, the church participates in God’s mission (missio Dei) both institutionally and personally.
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2021
ABSTRACT Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of open friendship, which he has consistently explicated for ... more ABSTRACT Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of open friendship, which he has consistently explicated for the last forty years, has contributed greatly to the theological discourse of friendship. Here I attempt to demonstrate that Moltmann has not developed this subject much over his forty years of engagement with it. However, based on his valuable insights, I offer two constructive proposals to further his idea of open friendship. The first is more analytical in that I demonstrate that Moltmann’s understanding of open friendship is close to what is called the ‘drawing’ model of friendship, although the advent of strangers among us necessitates that we take both Moltmann and the drawing model further. My second proposal is to construct imaginatively a new munus triplex of Jesus as Friend, Servant, and Stranger rather than following Moltmann who suggests a munus quadruplex focusing on Jesus the Friend.
Artikel ini berusaha mengkonstruksi sebuah tafsir Trinitaris atas teks Yohanes 14:6 yang kerap di... more Artikel ini berusaha mengkonstruksi sebuah tafsir Trinitaris atas teks Yohanes 14:6 yang kerap dipandang sebagai “batu sandungan” bagi relasi Kristiani dengan agama-agama lain. Dengan menyadari ketidakmungkinan untuk meneruskan tipologi lama (eksklusivisme, inklusivisme, dan pluralisme), penulis menghadirkan sebuah cara mendekati teks tersebut dari perspektif bapa-bapa gereja sekaligus mengkonstruksi serpihan teologi agama-agama yang diharapkan dapat menjembatani ketegangan antara komitmen Kristiani dan keterbukaan antar iman. Usaha tersebut hanya dapat berhasil jika kita mempergunakan perspektif Trinitaris untuk memahami teks tersebut.
DISKURSUS - JURNAL FILSAFAT DAN TEOLOGI STF DRIYARKARA, 2013
This article deals with the contemporary task of Christian public theology in constructing a cont... more This article deals with the contemporary task of Christian public theology in constructing a contextual model that is able to maintain the dialectic of commonality and particularity. Such a model must pay attention to the search for common ground among many cultural-religious identities, while at the same time it must respect those identities in their own paticularities. The sensitivity to and solidarity with the victims of the New Order's' regime must also be fundamental elements of such a model. To do so, this article discusses two competing theories in social philosophy (liberalism and communitarianism), and their parallel theories in theology (revisionism and post-liberalism). The necessity to construct a more balanced third way between those theories is needed, if Indonesian Christians want to be open to their social and political call and faithful to their Christian distinctiveness.
Scottish Journal of Theology, 2019
By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the 'in-between' as a liturgical ... more By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the 'in-between' as a liturgical category that engages with multiple tensions in Christian theology. The concept of the in-between becomes the primary lens through which to analyse not only the relationship between ecclesial and social liturgies, but also the interstices between the two. I then apply the concept to construct theological imagination in the ministries of ushering, intercessory prayer and the sending. The article concludes with a story of the worship of the GKI Yasmin church in front of the presidential palace in Indonesia, which demonstrates the prophetic dimension of the in-between.
Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan
This study focuses on the relationship between the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Ascension... more This study focuses on the relationship between the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Ascension of Jesus Christ, which often does not receive adequate attention in contemporary theology. The problem of separating the two doctrines is solved by re-examining the doctrine of the hypostatic union of Christ in the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions. Analytical and comparative approaches to the two traditions are undertaken to clearly show the tensions that arise and the possibility of imaginatively and faithfully linking the Incarnation and the Ascension. The study of these two models is furthered by comparing the two contemporary responses of the two traditions, one by Thomas Torrance and another by Niels Gregersen, that results in two ways of understanding Ascension, both as a reversal and as an extension.
KURIOS, 2021
This article discusses the idea of a hospitable church that struggles under the sacred canopy of ... more This article discusses the idea of a hospitable church that struggles under the sacred canopy of the state, especially in the Indonesian context. By using Stanley Hauerwas’ social ethics and ecclesiology that views the church as an exemplary community, this article proposes an ecclesial model that maintains the tension of being true to its nature on the one hand and being political on the other hand. Such a model is demonstrated through its four dimensions: beholding, becoming, belonging, and befriending. The paper ends with a conclusion, in which the author reflects on the four dimensions by using the perspective of the four classical marks of the church (notae ecclesiae). AbstrakArtikel ini membahas gagasan mengenai gereja dengan identitas-ramah yang berjuang di bawah kanopi suci negara, khususnya dalam konteks Indonesia. Dengan menggunakan etika sosial dan eklesiologi Stanley Hauerwas, yang memandang gereja sebagai komunitas eksemplaris, artikel ini mengusul-kan model gerejawi ya...
... This dissertation constructs a model of theology of religions based on Trinitarian perichores... more ... This dissertation constructs a model of theology of religions based on Trinitarian perichoresis (mutual indwelling or interpenetration) as an alternative to the ... Triune khora and relates to God through the Son and the Spirit, God always allows creation to enjoy its creaturely freedom ...
DUNAMIS: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani, Mar 9, 2020
This article proposes the garden model as a new approach that is hospitable to multiple types of ... more This article proposes the garden model as a new approach that is hospitable to multiple types of spirituality and faith growth. Such a model is characterized as heterogeneous and nonnormative. As such, it becomes an alternative to the ladder model that is more homogenous and normative, as explicated in the thought of James Fowler. By comparing the ladder and the garden models, as well as several examples within the garden model, the author demonstrates the advantages of the garden model and its implications for pedagogical, pastoral, and liturgical works of the church. The research shows that the garden model is beneficial in making space for multiple ways toward faith growth as well as the enrichment of the life of the church that respects diversity and celebrates unity.
Indonesian Journal of Theology
This article proposes a Trinitarian imagination that demonstrates the embrace of the whole univer... more This article proposes a Trinitarian imagination that demonstrates the embrace of the whole universe by the Son and the Holy Spirit, the two hands of God, through the creation and perfection of the universe. Both divine acts take place in the incarnation of the Son and the inhabitation of the Holy Spirit. The Trinitarian perichoretic principle also applies to the relationship between God and creation in such a way that, not only is the whole universe in the Son (panentheism), but so too the Holy Spirit permeates the whole universe (theenpanism). As a result, Christian theology offers a comforting pastoral message, namely, that the universe is never entirely separable from the loving communion of the Triune God.
Scottish Journal of Theology, 2019
By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the ‘in-between’ as a liturgical ... more By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the ‘in-between’ as a liturgical category that engages with multiple tensions in Christian theology. The concept of the in-between becomes the primary lens through which to analyse not only the relationship between ecclesial and social liturgies, but also the interstices between the two. I then apply the concept to construct theological imagination in the ministries of ushering, intercessory prayer and the sending. The article concludes with a story of the worship of the GKI Yasmin church in front of the presidential palace in Indonesia, which demonstrates the prophetic dimension of the in-between.
Exchange, May 12, 2014
This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,lDO character... more This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,lDO characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see brill.com/brill-typeface. Manuscripts and books for review should be sent to the Managing Editor, Freek L. Bakker, c/o Exchange,
Jakartaxiii, 100 hlm.; 21 c
BIA': Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen Kontekstual
:By using “symbolic engagement” as its method for thinking of the relationship between Church an... more :By using “symbolic engagement” as its method for thinking of the relationship between Church and the public space, this article proposes a constructive public theology that emphasizes the threefold prophetic task: critique, solidarity, and hope. Such a prophetic task must be carried on in the dialectic between the church’s faithfulness to the Kingdom of God and its participation in the world dominated by other kingdoms or empires. Therefore, any public theology must assert the identity of the church as a faithful presence, which simultaneously prophetic and hospitable. Keywords: symbolic engagement; prophetic; friendship; faithful presence Abstrak: Dengan mempergunakan “keterlibatan simbolis” sebagai metode berpikir bagi relasi Gereja dan ruang publik, makalah ini mengusulkan sebuah konstruksi teologi publik yang menampilkan tugas profetis dengan tiga poros, yaitu kritik, solidaritas, dan pengharapan. Tugas profetis tersebut harus dijalani dalam ketegangan di dalam kesetiaan Gere...
Jurnal Teologi
This article investigates the possibility of the presence of the Church in the the public space t... more This article investigates the possibility of the presence of the Church in the the public space through the presence of Christian persons in their various everyday spheres. By employing the dyadic understanding of abiding-and-go (Michael Gorman) and abiding-and-sending (the Generous Love document), I argue that Christians represent the whole church in their presence in the public space. In turn, by representing the whole church, Christians also make the Trinitarian communion present through their public engagement. As such, the church participates in God’s mission (missio Dei) both institutionally and personally.
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2021
ABSTRACT Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of open friendship, which he has consistently explicated for ... more ABSTRACT Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of open friendship, which he has consistently explicated for the last forty years, has contributed greatly to the theological discourse of friendship. Here I attempt to demonstrate that Moltmann has not developed this subject much over his forty years of engagement with it. However, based on his valuable insights, I offer two constructive proposals to further his idea of open friendship. The first is more analytical in that I demonstrate that Moltmann’s understanding of open friendship is close to what is called the ‘drawing’ model of friendship, although the advent of strangers among us necessitates that we take both Moltmann and the drawing model further. My second proposal is to construct imaginatively a new munus triplex of Jesus as Friend, Servant, and Stranger rather than following Moltmann who suggests a munus quadruplex focusing on Jesus the Friend.
Artikel ini berusaha mengkonstruksi sebuah tafsir Trinitaris atas teks Yohanes 14:6 yang kerap di... more Artikel ini berusaha mengkonstruksi sebuah tafsir Trinitaris atas teks Yohanes 14:6 yang kerap dipandang sebagai “batu sandungan” bagi relasi Kristiani dengan agama-agama lain. Dengan menyadari ketidakmungkinan untuk meneruskan tipologi lama (eksklusivisme, inklusivisme, dan pluralisme), penulis menghadirkan sebuah cara mendekati teks tersebut dari perspektif bapa-bapa gereja sekaligus mengkonstruksi serpihan teologi agama-agama yang diharapkan dapat menjembatani ketegangan antara komitmen Kristiani dan keterbukaan antar iman. Usaha tersebut hanya dapat berhasil jika kita mempergunakan perspektif Trinitaris untuk memahami teks tersebut.
DISKURSUS - JURNAL FILSAFAT DAN TEOLOGI STF DRIYARKARA, 2013
This article deals with the contemporary task of Christian public theology in constructing a cont... more This article deals with the contemporary task of Christian public theology in constructing a contextual model that is able to maintain the dialectic of commonality and particularity. Such a model must pay attention to the search for common ground among many cultural-religious identities, while at the same time it must respect those identities in their own paticularities. The sensitivity to and solidarity with the victims of the New Order's' regime must also be fundamental elements of such a model. To do so, this article discusses two competing theories in social philosophy (liberalism and communitarianism), and their parallel theories in theology (revisionism and post-liberalism). The necessity to construct a more balanced third way between those theories is needed, if Indonesian Christians want to be open to their social and political call and faithful to their Christian distinctiveness.
Scottish Journal of Theology, 2019
By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the 'in-between' as a liturgical ... more By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the 'in-between' as a liturgical category that engages with multiple tensions in Christian theology. The concept of the in-between becomes the primary lens through which to analyse not only the relationship between ecclesial and social liturgies, but also the interstices between the two. I then apply the concept to construct theological imagination in the ministries of ushering, intercessory prayer and the sending. The article concludes with a story of the worship of the GKI Yasmin church in front of the presidential palace in Indonesia, which demonstrates the prophetic dimension of the in-between.
Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan
This study focuses on the relationship between the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Ascension... more This study focuses on the relationship between the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Ascension of Jesus Christ, which often does not receive adequate attention in contemporary theology. The problem of separating the two doctrines is solved by re-examining the doctrine of the hypostatic union of Christ in the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions. Analytical and comparative approaches to the two traditions are undertaken to clearly show the tensions that arise and the possibility of imaginatively and faithfully linking the Incarnation and the Ascension. The study of these two models is furthered by comparing the two contemporary responses of the two traditions, one by Thomas Torrance and another by Niels Gregersen, that results in two ways of understanding Ascension, both as a reversal and as an extension.
KURIOS, 2021
This article discusses the idea of a hospitable church that struggles under the sacred canopy of ... more This article discusses the idea of a hospitable church that struggles under the sacred canopy of the state, especially in the Indonesian context. By using Stanley Hauerwas’ social ethics and ecclesiology that views the church as an exemplary community, this article proposes an ecclesial model that maintains the tension of being true to its nature on the one hand and being political on the other hand. Such a model is demonstrated through its four dimensions: beholding, becoming, belonging, and befriending. The paper ends with a conclusion, in which the author reflects on the four dimensions by using the perspective of the four classical marks of the church (notae ecclesiae). AbstrakArtikel ini membahas gagasan mengenai gereja dengan identitas-ramah yang berjuang di bawah kanopi suci negara, khususnya dalam konteks Indonesia. Dengan menggunakan etika sosial dan eklesiologi Stanley Hauerwas, yang memandang gereja sebagai komunitas eksemplaris, artikel ini mengusul-kan model gerejawi ya...
... This dissertation constructs a model of theology of religions based on Trinitarian perichores... more ... This dissertation constructs a model of theology of religions based on Trinitarian perichoresis (mutual indwelling or interpenetration) as an alternative to the ... Triune khora and relates to God through the Son and the Spirit, God always allows creation to enjoy its creaturely freedom ...
DUNAMIS: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani, Mar 9, 2020
This article proposes the garden model as a new approach that is hospitable to multiple types of ... more This article proposes the garden model as a new approach that is hospitable to multiple types of spirituality and faith growth. Such a model is characterized as heterogeneous and nonnormative. As such, it becomes an alternative to the ladder model that is more homogenous and normative, as explicated in the thought of James Fowler. By comparing the ladder and the garden models, as well as several examples within the garden model, the author demonstrates the advantages of the garden model and its implications for pedagogical, pastoral, and liturgical works of the church. The research shows that the garden model is beneficial in making space for multiple ways toward faith growth as well as the enrichment of the life of the church that respects diversity and celebrates unity.
Indonesian Journal of Theology
This article proposes a Trinitarian imagination that demonstrates the embrace of the whole univer... more This article proposes a Trinitarian imagination that demonstrates the embrace of the whole universe by the Son and the Holy Spirit, the two hands of God, through the creation and perfection of the universe. Both divine acts take place in the incarnation of the Son and the inhabitation of the Holy Spirit. The Trinitarian perichoretic principle also applies to the relationship between God and creation in such a way that, not only is the whole universe in the Son (panentheism), but so too the Holy Spirit permeates the whole universe (theenpanism). As a result, Christian theology offers a comforting pastoral message, namely, that the universe is never entirely separable from the loving communion of the Triune God.
Scottish Journal of Theology, 2019
By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the ‘in-between’ as a liturgical ... more By using the idea of theology as symbolic engagement, I propose the ‘in-between’ as a liturgical category that engages with multiple tensions in Christian theology. The concept of the in-between becomes the primary lens through which to analyse not only the relationship between ecclesial and social liturgies, but also the interstices between the two. I then apply the concept to construct theological imagination in the ministries of ushering, intercessory prayer and the sending. The article concludes with a story of the worship of the GKI Yasmin church in front of the presidential palace in Indonesia, which demonstrates the prophetic dimension of the in-between.
There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind, and the purse.
Apa yang akan saya sampaikan di dalam panel yang penting ini bukanlah sebuah teologi dan spiritua... more Apa yang akan saya sampaikan di dalam panel yang penting ini bukanlah sebuah teologi dan spiritualitas ikon dari perspektif Protestan. Ada beberapa alasan untuk itu. Pertama, saya percaya dua kolega saya dari Gereja Orthodoks dan Gereja Katolik Roma yang lebih berkompeten menjelaskannya; apalagi saya berasal dari sebuah tradisi yang sangat kental diasosiasikan dengan ikonoklasme. Kedua, saya sendiri memasuki dunia ikon sebagai bagian dari ziarah spiritual personal saya setelah berkenalan dengan teologi Orthodoks, seperti St. Yohanes dari Damaskus dan Bapa-bapa Kapadokia. Secara khusus pula, minat saya pada karya Sergius Bulgakov memperdalam perhatian saya pada ikonografi Orthodoks. Bahkan, doa harian saya senantiasa memanfaatkan icon Trinitas dari Andrei Roblev yang terkenal itu. Maka, seandainya saya memaparkan teologi ikon saya, maka saya kuatir hanya akan mengulangi apa yang disampaikan oleh kolega saya dari Gereja Orthodoks.
Joas Adiprasetya adalah pendeta jemaat GKI Pondok Indah, Jakarta, yang ditugaskan secara khusus m... more Joas Adiprasetya adalah pendeta jemaat GKI Pondok Indah, Jakarta, yang ditugaskan secara khusus menjadi dosen penuh waktu di STT Jakarta untuk bidang teologi sistematika; kini Ketua STT Jakarta. Makalah ini disajikan dalam Studi Teologi, Materi Persidangan Sinode XX GPIB, di Wisma Kinasih II, Depok, pada 2 Mei 2014.