Nindyo Sasongko

Fordham University · Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

This research investigates the relationship between the biblical notion of kairos, eschatology, and ecclesiology amid the struggle for survival in the postpandemic life. Drawing upon Paul Tillich and Raimon Panikkar, this article sketches a postpandemic ecclesiology called “kairotic ecclesiology.” The church must understand that it exists as a comm...

Artikel ini merupakan editorial untuk edisi spesial "Mendamba Cinta: Dasar-dasar bagi Spiritualitas."

Dalam makalah ini, saya mengusung tema persahabatan untuk menjadi praktik eklesial, sebuah praktik yang diadaptasi dari “pembimbingan spiritual” (spiritual direction). Pendekatan yang akan saya tawarkan tampak berbeda dari yang ditawarkan oleh berbagai sekolah teologi Protestan seperti, ilmu pendampingan pastoral sampai pastoral klinis. Sebab itu,...

This is an editor introduction to the special issue on Christian Education in Indonesia

What is “spirituality”? The term finds wide usage in the literature today, yet its meaning remains nebulous. One crucial problem lies in how precepts and propositions are maintained as truth, oftentimes becoming obstacles for the flourishing of authentic spirituality. In our reading of Colossians 2:16–3:4, we see the challenges Colossian Christians...

A book review of three books: Francis of Rome & Francis of Assisi, The Sin of White Supremacy, and The Cross in Contexts.

Using the lens of trinitarian theology of friendship, this article discusses the idea of compassionate space‐making. By showing the primacy of friendly love (philia) over agapeic love, it argues that the idea of trinitarian friendship can offer a creative and imaginative way for constructing a theology of friendship in the communal and broader soci...

This study demonstrates how ignorance works in the Indonesian massacres of 1965–1966. This atrocity, which claimed roughly five hundred thousand lives, is one of the most forgotten human tragedies of the twentieth century. For many years, the massacres were hidden from public view. Ignorance was reinforced by the New Order under the presidency of S...

“Sayap Kiri Reformasi,” demikianlah Roland H. Bainton, sejarawan Amerika ternama, menamai gerakan yang memisahkan diri dari Reformasi “resmi” di Zürich, Swiss. Ternyata bukan hanya sebutan di atas yang diberikan, gerakan ini juga disebut sebagai “Reformasi Radikal” (istilah George H. Williams, Profesor Sejarah Gereja dari Universitas Harvard). Gera...

A book review of The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity

In the wake of discourses in Trinitarian Theology, one can see that the debates still centre around male theologians, past and present. This study explores a theological voice from the margins of power through the thought of the thirteenth-century Beguine mystic Hadewijch of Brabant. I contend that Hadewijch can be seen on par with those great male...

This article is a study of Christology in which Christ, the center of cosmos, is on the side of creatures in pain. I examine the argument of Jesuit paleontologist and mystic Teilhard de Chardin that the whole universe is in the process of Christification. With Ilia Delio and Elizabeth A. Johnson, I contend that Christ takes the side of suffering cr...

The ecumenical movement has produced many documents on issues of the environment and justice, but many churches do not know how to translate these documents into concrete actions. In this study I argue that social issues such as poverty and injustice cannot be separated from human responses toward the whole of creation. The ecumenical churches need...

The globalizing economy is not only offering affluence to the elite but also a form of idolatry, in which the idol is ‘the golden calf of global capitalism’. In this article I attempt to inquire a God-talk which engages the challenge of global greed and stimulates solidarity for the people who make up the base of the economic pyramid — ‘a triune ec...

While many churches now affirm the importance of nonviolence as a missional strategy, it is not clear that this has yet affected their ecclesial self-understanding. What have the ecumenical churches said about the church and nonviolence? Have they developed enough of a nonviolent ecclesiology? In this study, I contend that it is essential that the...

What is the relevance of the sixth-century writings attributed to Dionysius of Areopagite or Pseudo-Dionysius for twenty-first-century Christianity? This article is an inquiry into the notion of divine unknowability within the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus. As a thinker who lived in an era in which great disputations over cardinal doctrines of the church...

A book review of Embracing the World.

This article revisits the meaning of being human as Homo ludens (the playing human), which was introduced by Johan Huizinga. Drawing on the wisdom of Javanese culture and Christian theology, especially that of Paul Tillich, and Hugo and Karl Rahner, I contribute to the Christian notion that to be human is to play. For Javanese people in Indonesia,...

Dalam artikel ini, penulis akan menempatkan Injil Tomas dan Yohanes dalam konteks tradisi mistik Yudaisme pada era Bait Suci Kedua. Penulis berpijak pada tesis yang diletakkan oleh B. McGinn dalam karya monumentalnya, The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century, bahwa “The mystical element in Christianity is that part of its belief a...

Konteks bergereja dewasa ini adalah “perang gaya baru,” yaitu perang ibadah. Gereja-gereja kontemporer tampil dengan wajah segar dalam berbagai bidang pelayanan yang market sensitive—peka pasar, peka dengan keinginan orang-orang di zaman ini—termasuk ibadah yang ditata untuk menarik pengunjung gereja. Dampak yang diakibatkan tak dapat dibilang keci...

Firdaus yang terhilang dan Firdaus yang dipulihkan. Satu Pribadi Agung datang memulihkannya. Kapan? Di mana? Apakah Firdaus itu benar-benar ada? Jika benar-benar ada, sudahkah kita menikmati Firdaus baru itu? Keempat Injil kanonik mewartakan kehadiran Kristus sebagai Mesias, Pemimpin Kerajaan Allah; namun kita masih diperhadapkan pada problem apaka...

Bagaimanakah wajah teologi di era pascamodern? Tulisan ini berusaha menjawab pertanyaan tersebut. Teologi—yang adalah perbincangan atau pembicaraan mengenai Allah dan relevansinya bagi keberlangsungan kehidupan seisi dunia—selalu mengalami pergeseran, perenungan ulang bahkan perevisian secara radikal. Munculnya Reformasi di abad enam belas merupaka...