Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2026): January-April

The Sacred Grammar of Time: Critical Discourse Analysis and Theology in ‎Reading World History

Iskandarsyah Siregar (Universitas Nasional, Indonesia)
Awang Azman Awang Pawi (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Apr 2026

Abstract

This study examines how contemporary world history is linguistically and theologically constructed through discourses of crisis, transition, risk, misinformation, religious identity, and moral accountability. Using a qualitative-dominant mixed-method design, the study integrates Critical Discourse Analysis, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, and Islamic theological hermeneutics to analyze publicly accessible institutional, geopolitical, digital-governance, and religious-public texts published or updated between 2024 and 2026. The findings show that contemporary global discourse frames the present as unstable, the future as threatened, and historical change as a managerial problem of security, governance, and adaptation. At the same time, Islamic theological concepts such as sunnatullah, fitnah, ajal, qadar, ibrah, tabayyun, and akhirah provide a moral framework for interpreting time as an arena of human responsibility before God, society, and creation. This study proposes sacred temporal discourse analysis as an interdisciplinary framework for reading world history as a linguistic-theological formation in which language, ideology, power, memory, revelation, and moral imagination intersect. The implication is that contemporary global crises should not be understood only through political, technological, or risk-management perspectives, but also through ethical reflection on truth, justice, accountability, and civilizational responsibility.

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jpi

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

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Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia published Three times a year (April, Agustus and December ) as a medium of distributing scientific research in the field of language, literature , and the Indonesian language and literature education. Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia is published in collaboration between the Yayasan ...