Meskipun kemiskinan dapat ditemukan dimana-mana diseluruh dunia, bahkan juga dinegara-negara Dunia Pertama (Eropa dan Amerika Serikat),realitas kemiskinan di Asia lebih mencolok. Sebab lebih dari tiga perempat kaum miskin di dunia hidup di Asia. Lebih dari itu, kemiskinan biasanya amat erat terjalin dengan keberagaman masyarakat. Asia adalah tempat lahirnya agama-agama samawi (Hinduisme,Buddhis…
In this important study John de Gruchy examines the past, present and future roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the relationship from its gestation in early Christendom to its virtual breakdown as democracy becomes the polity of modernity, and focuses on five twentieth-century case studies, including Nazi Germany and South Africa, which demonstrate the revival of t…
Wilbert Shenk presents five important papers on how Christian historical and mission studies need to be changed in the light of the emergence of World Christianity and the demise of the West as its spiritual and political center. Shenk introduces the entire question in a brilliant essay that portrays the demographic, cultural, and theological shifts in tectonics. His introduction is followed by…
Offers a comprehensive guide to doing theology as part of the Catholic ecclesial community in today's globalized world. An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective emphasizes that theology is an activity, a process that is anchored in Scripture but interpreted by ecclesial tradition and the magisterium. This theology is rooted in the experience that divine is found in a sacramental wor…