scholarly journals Religious pluralism and its implications for church development

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Asadu ◽  
Nicholas Asogwa ◽  
Benjamin C. Diara
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Church Development ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Christian Churches

Religious pluralism model holds the belief that there is virtue in every religion, just as all religions are good and are of equal value. It does not consider religion’s particularity but is interested in the ideas that have not favoured any religion. The issue with this concept is not its assertion of the validity of all religions. It is rather with its denial of the finality of any religion as the way by which people could come to God. Hence, it allows the existence of multiple religions in a given society and encourages religious tolerance. The beauty of pluralism is its flexibility which makes religious practicing a wilful act and religious conversion a choice and not a force, although it has the tendency to encourage syncretism. This research examines critically the implications of pluralism using historical approach on the development of Christian church. Data for the research were basically obtained from secondary sources. The findings reveal that although religious pluralism has its negative sides, it gives the much needed boost to development of church if its tenets are followed. Accordingly, the article recommends that Christian churches in pluralist societies such as Nigeria should imbibe the virtues of religious tolerance, and dialogue, if they want to remain alive and continue to be relevant.Contribution: Religious pluralism is a panacea to inordinate and incessant religious conflict, if given its proper place in Nigeria, will breed religious tolerance, peace and progress. This work would be of immense of benefit to government, missionaries and students across all strata of discipline.

scholarly journals Mengaku Allah, Merupa Dalam Konteks: Tinjauan Historis terhadap Pengakuan Iman Gereja-gereja di Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christanto Sema Rappan Paledung ◽  
Alfa Kristian Hia
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Common

Abstrak Studi ini merupakan uraian historis mengenai pergulatan gereja-gereja di Indonesia terhadap relevansi pengakuan iman dengan konteks kehadirannya. Uraian ini berfokus kepada beberapa gereja lokal ini Indonesia, yakni Gereja Toraja, Gereja Kristen Indonesia, Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, dan Gereja-gereja Kristen Jawa. Gereja-gereja tersebut lahir dari rahim zending yang membuatnya menggunakan pengakuan iman dari gereja pendahulunya. Namun, pergulatan dengan konteksnya membuat gereja-gereja tersebut harus merumuskan pengakuan iman dengan kesadaran konteksnya. Studi ini menelusuri pergulatan tersebut dengan menggunakan pendekatan historis. Pada bagian akhir, kami akan membandingkannya dengan Pengakuan Bersama Iman Kristen yang dirumuskan Persekutuan Gereja-gereja di Indonesia. Argumen utama tulisan ini adalah bahwa pengakuan iman sebuah gereja merupakan wujud pergulatannya dengan tradisi di mana ia berpijak dengan konteks kehadirannya.AbstractThis study is a historical description of the struggles of the churches in Indonesia on the relevance of the profession of faith to the context of their presence. This description focuses on some of these local churches in Indonesia, namely the Toraja Church, the Indonesian Christian Church, The Batak Christian Protestant Church, and the Javanese Christian Churches. These churches were born from the womb of zending which made them use the confession of faith from his predecessor church. However, the struggle with the context makes these churches have to formulate the confession of faith with awareness of the context. This paper explores these struggles using a historical approach. At the end, we will compare it with the Common Confession of Christian Faith formulated by the Communion of Churches in Indonesia. Our main argument is that the confession of faith of a church is a form of its struggle with the tradition in which it stands with the context of its presence. 

scholarly journals Pengembangan Pluralisme Agama di Kalangan Mahasiswa (Analisis atas Proses Pembinaan keagamaan dan Politik Identitas terhadap Religiusitas Mahasiswa di Universitas Bhayangkara Jakarta)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zamakhsari
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Intentional Agent ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

Developing a training in religious pluralism to a young generation at a university level in Indonesia seems to work out as the university is a highly intentional agent of for that coaching. It is a place where its stakeholders, including its students, are inclined to bow to the academic tradition, and where the religious pluralism can be a subject that they study and practice.  This process is a potential medium to reduce religious conflict and violence in the country. This paper found this dynamic at the Universitas Bhayangkara Jakarta that perpetuates the religious pluralism by its well-organized academic programs, mainly by its discussions and dialogues. This university applies this training to perpetuate religious tolerance and social harmony among its administrative and teaching staff.

Pentecostalism and African diaspora : a case study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), in North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Rotimi Williams Omotoye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

Pentecostalism as a new wave of Christianity became more pronounced in 1970's and beyond in Nigeria. Since then scholars of Religion, History, Sociology and Political Science have shown keen interest in the study of the Churches known as Pentecostals because of the impact they have made on the society. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was established by Pastor Josiah Akindayomi in Lagos,Nigeria in 1952. After his demise, he was succeeded by Pastor Adeboye Adejare Enock. The problem of study of this research was an examination of the expansion of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to North America, Caribbean and Canada. The missionary activities of the church could be regarded as a reversed mission in the propagation of Christianity by Africans in the Diaspora. The methodology adopted was historical. The primary and secondary sources of information were also germane in the research. The findings of the research indicated that the Redeemed Christian Church of God was founded in North America by Immigrants from Nigeria. Pastor Adeboye Enock Adejare had much influence on the Church within and outside the country because of his charisma. The Church has become a place of refuge for many immigrants. They are also contributing to the economy of the United States of America. However, the members of the Church were faced with some challenges, such as security scrutiny by the security agencies. In conclusion, the RCCGNA was a denomination that had been accepted and embraced by Nigerians and African immigrants in the United States of America.

scholarly journals Persistent Conflict and Perceived Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Southern Kaduna Region of Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tunde Abioro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
People’S Perception ◽  
Origin Identity ◽  
The Government

The cycle of individual and communal lives from birth to death is supposedly preserved by the government through institutions. However, political, social, and economic activities are engaged to make ends meet wherein the government is to serve as an unbiased regulator. The activities that play out in Southern Kaduna reflected politics of being on one side with interplay on origin, identity, religion, and locality. On the other hand, it reflects politics of belonging that play on kin, reciprocity, and stranger status. It has thus resulted in violence, suspicion, and persistent conflict. The study examines citizen’s inclusiveness in peacebuilding initiatives and the people’s perception of the sincerity of the government. The research relies on secondary sources where governmental and non-governmental publications and documents from relevant and reliable sources enriched the socio-historical approach, particularly those relating to contestation in the region. The study found out that just like situations in the other northwest states of the country, the crisis exacerbates by the government’s inability to mediate fairly between warring parties to ensure fairness and justice as well as failure to apprehend and punish the culprits, even as recommendations from the various interventions were unimplemented. Thus, the spate of violence continues.

scholarly journals PLURALISME AGAMA MENURUT NURCHOLIS MADJID (1939-2005) DALAM KONTEKS KEINDONESIAAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Catur Widiat Moko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Heuristic Technique ◽  
The Will ◽  
Three Stages

This research entitled "Religious Pluralism According to Nurcholish Madjid in Indonesian Context '. Based on the phenomenon that occurred in the field many Muslims who more emphasize the symbol of religion than the application in menjlankan religion so that underlie thinking Nurcholis Madjid in overcoming msalah.dilakukan three stages of work that is Inventory, Evaluation, and Synthesis. The writings that have been obtained will be reviewed, an analysis of the thoughts of Nurcholish Madjid. The research approach is historical approach, while in historical research using heuristic technique, verification, intervention, and historicistography. The results of this study can be summarized as follows, First, the basis of religious pluralism is that the universal religion of Islam encompasses all aspects of life, Pancasila is the foundation of the state of Indonesia so that we must do tolerance and compete in the good. Secondly, that the implications of religious pluralism recognize religious freedom, live with the risks that will be borne by each believer. The will of God is above the will of man in setting anything. Thirdly, the principle of religious pluralism is the open, dialogical, tolerant and upholding of human values which at the same time embodies a peaceful and open Islam.

scholarly journals Al-Qur’an and Islamic Tolerant: Historical Studies

TAWASUT ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Faizin Muhith
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
History Of

AbstractIn his research on the history of the Holy Qur’an, the writer hasbeen able to show the dimensions of the Qur'anic Islamictolerance and how to establish the acceptance of the other, inthe most sacred of the Muslims, which is related to the words ofGod. It is through the historical approach that the researcherbegan to search until he finds the dimensions of the manydifferent Islamic tolerance aspects that appear through thehistory of the Qur'an and its mysteries. Among these aspects: thediversity and variance in the letters of the Qur’an that camedown from above the seven heavens, and the side of writing onthe types of materials available at the time, and the side of themultitude of synonyms and differences and books written in thestatement, and other dimensions and other important aspects.In summary, Muslims adhere to the principle of consultationeven in matters related to the words of God. They also adhere tothe spirit of religious tolerance that permeates Islam in generaland in the history of Qur’anic Koran in particular.Keywords: muṣḥāf; history of al-Qur’an; tolerant

Christianity and the Classics

1944 ◽  
Vol 13 (37) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
W. B. Stanford
Keyword(s):  
Christian Schools ◽  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Classical Education ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
The Church

‘What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?’ cries Tertullian of Carthage when the Christian Church was barely two centuries old, ‘what harmony is there between Plato's Academy and the Church?’ Then, with all the mastery of eloquence that he had learned in the school of classical rhetoric, he denounces non-Christian literature as pernicious—‘We have no need of curiosity going beyond Christ Jesus, nor of inquiry beyond the Gospel.’The question might still be crudely asked to-day—Why teach pagan literature in Christian countries and Christian schools? Some may answer that the problem and the conflict are past; none of the greater Christian churches opposes classical education now; on the contrary the clergy mostly encourage it, while it is the scientists that object. But Christianity and the classics meet each other with different facets in different epochs. Sometimes these facets seem less adjustable than those before them. And some of the defences made for pre-Christian literature by Christians, and some of the uses they recommend for it, deserve attention still.What follows here is mainly an historical survey, and necessarily a very sketchy one. It must begin long before our Lord's time, at the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. By that time Palestine and Egypt, the two great centres of Judaism, had come under Greek rule. After Alexander's death both these regions were taken over by Ptolemy. He and his namesake successors were enlightened and tolerant monarchs. Under their rule Hellenism gained ground among the Jews both at Jerusalem and at Alexandria.

Amateurism, scientific control, and crime: historical fluctuations in anti-doping discourses in sport

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Ian Ritchie ◽  
Kathryn Henne
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
World Anti Doping Agency ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Creation ◽  
High Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the institutional mechanisms for combating doping in high-level sport, including the trend toward using legalistic frameworks, and how they contribute to notions of deviance. Design/methodology/approach A historical approach informed by recent criminological adaptations of genealogy was utilized, using primary and secondary sources. Findings Three time periods involving distinct frameworks for combating doping were identified, each with their own advantages and limitations: pre-1967, post-1967 up until the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency in 1999, and post-1999. Originality/value This study contextualizes the recent legalistic turn toward combating doping in sport, bringing greater understanding to the limitations of present anti-doping practices.

Before Hegel and Beyond Kant: Risto Saarinen's Recognition and Religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-313
Author(s):  
Suzanne E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Moral Conflicts ◽  
Knee Jerk

When religious tolerance appears in the literature on ecumenicism, religious pluralism, and other modes of peaceful coexistence, it is frequently juxtaposed with the words “beyond,” “more than,” and “is not enough.” To be sure, it is generally conceded in these contexts, tolerance is an improvement on intolerance, and, relatively speaking, then, a fine thing, as far it goes. For many, however, it does not go very far. “Religious tolerance,” we are told, “however virtuous, does nothing to remove our ignorance of one another.” It is thought to lack strenuousness, and hence, to be unsuited for modern moral conflicts, which tend increasingly toward the polarity characteristic of war: “Tolerance, especially of the knee-jerk variety. . . works as long as people can slink off by themselves, avoiding contact, and never facing up to what they truly believe.” No one says, “I am fighting for [fill in the blank] with all the toleration I can muster.”

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