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Mahabbah: Journal of Religion and Education
Published by Scriptura Indonesia
ISSN : 27462366     EISSN : 2723147X     DOI : https://doi.org/10.47135/mahabbah
The Journal of Mahbbah promotes critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive inquiry into religion, education, culture, and linguistic. The journal publishes articles in theology, religious ethics, education, and philosophy of religion, as well as articles that approach the role of religion in education, culture, and society from a historical, sociological, psychological, linguistic, or artistic standpoint. It also publishes highly specialized research in limited areas of inquiry that has significance for a wider readership.
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MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 1, No 2 (2020): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.1, No.1/2 (July 2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.06027/mahabbah.v1i1.15

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OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND FORGIVENESS OF CHRISTIAN YOUTH IN NORTH SUMATERA Pamela Hendra Heng; Desiree Gracia Nelwan; Septi Lathiifah
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 2, No 2 (2021): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.2, No.2 (July 2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v2i2.28

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The entire world is being attacked by a pandemic outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or what we know as COVID-19. The Indonesian government policy of limiting the crowd of people when socializing affects various activities of young people at church, including in North Sumatera. This causes the psychological well-being (PWB) of the youth to be disturbed. Research shows Christian youths carry out activities such as wasting time on social media and online games that may lead to gambling (Jap et al., 2013) while neglecting their education, which is contrary to Christian teachings. Constantly pressured for neglecting responsibility and doing sins may affect PWB in youth, and forgiveness from God, their family and themselves may help increase PWB. Pre and post-test of PWB and forgiveness are administered. The instrument used is the PWB questionnaire based on Ryff's (1995) theory and TRIM-18 based on McCullough and Hoyt (2002). The subjects are adolescents and young adults aged 11-40 years in North Sumatera. Results show that both variables are high. There were differences based on participants’ educational background and whether or not the participants read the bible everyday in the PWB post-test data. As for the forgiveness, results show that there were differences based on educational background and occupation in the pre-test data, while in the post-test data, there is a difference based on how many times an individual reads the bible in a day.
DOCETISM IN THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS LOGION 28 IN OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI Noya, Ludwig Beethoven Jones
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 2, No 2 (2021): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.2, No.2 (July 2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v2i2.29

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The Gospel of Thomas is one among the numerous controversial documents in the Christianity. On the one hand, its oppositions argue that it is a Gnostic gospel. While on the other hand, its supporters claim that it belongs to the New Testament, because it contains the lost sayings of Jesus. The similarity between John 1:14 and Logion 28 is used as one of the basis by the supporters to contend the text’s authority. This article asserts that John 1:14 cannot be equated with Logion 28, for the Logion contains a Docetic concept. Hence, it corroborates the view that the Gospel of Thomas is a Gnostic literature.
THE ART OF ACHIEVING WHOLENESS: Adult-Learning in Presence and Listening Intercultural Encounter in Healthcare and Counselling before and during Covid-19 Ulrike Elsdörfer
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 2, No 2 (2021): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.2, No.2 (July 2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v2i2.32

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Counselling in healthcare is a method-based encounter between two persons. This is at least the definition according to psychology. One person, the client, has the chance to express mental, social and physical problems. The other person, the counsellor or therapist, makes use of her or his knowledge, intuition and responsiveness, in order to explore and heal. Spiritual counselling follows the same procedure. The counsellor is a trained religious person, aspects of spirituality give a distinct notion to the process. Group therapies relate to the needs of people in indigenous worlds, and non-western thinking as well as post-colonial analysis assists to make visible deep social shifts between different societies in a globalized world. Presence and listening are the two dominant qualities of a therapist, a counsellor or a spiritual advisor in this context. What happens, if exactly these qualities are rejected by needs of healthcare? How are the impacts of a globalized pandemic like COVID-19 on this concept of therapy, counselling and encounter in spiritual dimensions? What will lead to a form of community and social life? How does mental health prevention look like in times of challenges? 
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE IN INDONESIA AND LUTHER’S TWO KINGDOMS CONTRIBUTION Amran Simangunsong
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 2, No 2 (2021): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.2, No.2 (July 2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v2i2.27

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Religious pluralism is a reality that Christianity should face in the light of mission. Christian churches should respect the existence of other flourishing world faiths. Christian churches have been forced to see and understand the encounter of people of different faiths especially in Indonesia. The small churches in the non-Christian lands also have to re-think their attitudes to the majority faiths around them.   As a country that is religiously plural where Muslim is a majority, Indonesian churches have been facing the complexity of religious identity. Sometimes it would cause conflict. Therefore, church and society have taken more attention on interfaith dialogue. Luther’s Two Kingdom Doctrine is necessary to contribute the relation of mission in religious pluralistic context. It gives an emphasis of distinction in Christian task in the world. Therefore, INTERFAITH DIALOGUE is part of mission of the church. It is complimentary to the mission of the church in conjunction with evangelism and social witness.
HATE SPEECH AND ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONCLICTS IN NIGERIA: Implications for Political Stability Nkechi G. Onah; Innocent A. Ugwu; Favour C. Uroko
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 2, No 2 (2021): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.2, No.2 (July 2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v2i2.31

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While freedom of expression or free speech is a fundamental human right of all, hate speech heralds danger for a country. Using a qualitative research approach, this study examines the connection between hate speech, ethnoreligious conflicts, and political stability in Nigeria. This study argues that the threat to internal security in Nigeria is a resultant effect of social injustice in the country. In Nigeria, hate speech has been on the increase instigating ethnic and religious sentiment, mistrust, and conflicts. The study suggests that peace social justice and political inclusion should be adopted in running the affairs of the nation.
"THE MASKING GOD": Engaging Roger Haight and Wilfred Cantwell Smith in Search of the Living God in the Ongoing Deadly Covid-19 Pandemic Parulihan Sipayung
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 3, No 1 (2022): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.3, No.1 (January 2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v3i1.41

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This study phenomenologically aims to reconsider the understandings and practices of religions in ongoing deadly Covid-19 pandemics. Religions and their naivety have become the pandemic within pandemic. Religions pretend to behave like God and the followers obey them uncritically and sometimes irrationally. This study argues that religions should become a window that through it the followers can experience the liberating presence of God who is characteristically pro-life and love. I argue whatever concept of truth religions have, life, and love must be the character of true faith in a true God. This study limitedly investigates global religious phenomena during the covid-19 pandemic all over the world and endeavors to give a theological appraisal based on the theology of Roger Haight and Wilfred Cantwell Smith. In conclusion, I argue, God is indeed present in human life but not transparently. God reveals God-self with a theo-philosophical mask. Thus, God is a masking God.  Therefore, to understand God we should debunk the naïve understanding of religion and go beyond the religious phenomena to the absolute mysterious reality of God–The ‘Wholy Mysterious Other’.
FINDING A LIVING GOD: Learn from Stanley J. Samartha Firman Panjaitan
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 3, No 1 (2022): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.3, No.1 (January 2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v3i1.30

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The religious concept of God has essentially "killed" the real existence of God. The understanding of God has been narrowed through religious dogmas so that God no longer lives universally but is limited to religious dogmas that try to live it in its own religious way. Departing from this problem, this article aims to discuss efforts to find God who lives in the existence of human life. By using literature studies, especially examining Samartha's views on the power of syncretism to build an attitude of pluralism, the findings are that syncretism is a means to animate universal values in religion. Syncretism is the power to foster synergy between culture and religion, so as to form a grounded contextual understanding of the rules of the good life. Likewise with God. Through contextualization based on syncretism, God who has been killed by religious dogmas is brought back to life, so that it can greet life in accordance with the context in which God lives. God is seen universally and at the same time becomes a solid foundation for every religion in the world.
THEOLOGICAL HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS AMIDST THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC Ayuk Ausaji Ayuk
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 3, No 1 (2022): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.3, No.1 (January 2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v3i1.40

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A hermeneutical study on higher education response to the crisis in education during the pandemic. It was discovered that higher educational institutions were able to handle the crisis of the time creatively and successfully as the positive points of the challenges outweigh the negative points of the situation. The negative experiences included: Poor internet connection, lack of necessary technological equipment, online education health related issues, and home distractions. Whereas the positive points are as follows: The reawakening of the online learning system, a viable alternative to the classroom, sociability, opportunity for parents to nurture their children while studying, practical and safe access to education, and the future of education online. This shows clearly that the challenge became an opportunity in disguise by creating an added means of providing an opportunity for people to have access to education. The study has made educators aware of the fact that online education is no more a dream very far away, but rather a reality at the doorstep if we are willing to take advantage of it and expand our classrooms far beyond the enclave of our educational institution’s campuses.
GOLDEN CALF NARRATIVE: Deuteronomist Ideology of Jeroboam Reformation Marthin Steven Lumingkewas; Jenry E.C. Mandey; Antonius Missa
MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education Vol 3, No 1 (2022): MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education, Vol.3, No.1 (January 2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47135/mahabbah.v3i1.24

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Jeroboam 1st is depicted as the prototype for all future evil kings, who are regularly accused According to the books of Kings. Jeroboam accused of established two sanctuaries; Bethel and Dan to rival the temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. These shrines then provoke vehement censure and sin of Jeroboam become paradigmatic of northern apostasy. Underlying the negative depiction of Jeroboam’s cult, however, scholars have found subtle details suggesting that Jeroboam’s cult was traditional and even Yahwistic in nature. His calves may be best understood as familiar Canaanite vehicles for the invisible deity enthroned above them – in this case, Yahweh – comparable to the cherubim in southern cult of Judah. Jeroboam priesthood likely included Levites. And his choices of Dan and Bethel, too, apparently reflected a sensitivity to honor venerable memories of pre-monarchic era. This research aims to explain what Jeroboam did was not a violation of the Yahwistic system of Israel at that time. The establishment of God in Bethel and Dan did not disconcert the status of Yahweh in the treasures of Israel, instead of a form of a political assertion that separated Israel from the arrogance and the power of Judah. By using the method of analyzing historical criticism and literacy, the result is a new perspective of understanding Jeroboam’s reform in Israel - merely a political movement alone. Jeroboam never removed Yahweh from the treasury as the god of Israel. Instead, he retained Yahweh as God who was declared to have led Israel out of Egypt.