HARGA DIRI ORANG MISKIN, SEBUAH RENUNGAN SPIRITUAL ATAS PERSOALAN KEMISKINAN DI INDONESIA
Keywords:
diakonia, kemiskinan, kebergantungan, kemandiran, spiritualAbstract
When poverty is so predominant, any religion should face it as a challenge for it to find the way to overcome the uggliest yet the longest problem of humanity. Religion may not ignore it with reason that material matters are not theirs. In fact, religion has been inseparable from economy since the very beginning of its existence. With regards to Christianity, in the time of Roman Empire, modern colonial time, even recently, its life has been closely connected with economy. On the other hand, Christianity has yet to prove itself as a religion which can make use of economy to free people from poverty. This article offers a spiritual path embedded within Christianity which might bring the needy to regain their own dignity which has been robbed by those who have made them incessantly living in poverty. This can keep the hope in the middle of the failure of Christianity to perform a transformative model of diakoniaDownloads
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