CITRA YESUS DI INDONESIA

Abstract

‘The Indonesian Jesus’ is a chapter of Martien Brinkmans book De niet-westerse Jezus. Jezus als bodhisattva, avatara, goeroe, profeet, voorouder en genezer. Because the Indonesian context is coloured by a majority of islam, the author has learned that several theologians try to bridge the gap between christianity and islam. Based on written materials of these theologians Brinkman describes Jesus in several different Indonesian contexts. He distuingeshes two approaches in the way Jesus is represented to bridge the gap between christianity and islam: one way is the approach of dialogue; the other way is the contextual approach.