Relevansi Baptis dalam Konsep Manunggaling Kawula Gusti. Korelasi Iman dan Budaya dalam Terang Teologi Budaya-Tandingan

Abstract

The focus of this study is to observe the encounter between the Christian  Faith and the Cultural Tradition of Kejawen in the light of the contextual  theology, such as the counter-culture model. The subject of this research is  mainly the Catholics who make the values of Kejawen still alive. The author  chose East Java, particularly the Catholics of the two dioceses of Surabaya  and Malang as his research field and resource persons. The methodology used  in this study is phenomenological approach, through a period of field research  and in-dept interviews in unity with literature studies. From this study  the author found out a connection between the Christian faith and the Kejawen  tradition, as well as its implications for the lives of the faithfuls who are  consistently in corporating or personalizing in themselves these two traditions.