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International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
Published by Asosiasi Riset Ilmu Pendidikan Agama Dan Filsafat Indonesia
ISSN : 30472989     EISSN : 30472997     DOI : 10.61132
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Education, Social,
Religion Humanities Education Social Sciences Other
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy; This a journal intended for the publication of scientific articles published by Asosiasi Riset Ilmu Pendidkan Agama dan Filsafat Indonesia.The articles published are articles on the themes of religious education, catechesis, pastoralism. The aim of publishing this journal is to publish the results of scientific studies and research in the field of Christian Theology, especially those with Evangelical-Pentecostal characteristics, and the field of Christian Education. This journal is published 1 year 4 times (February, May, August and November)
Arjuna Subject : Ilmu Sosial - Ilmu Sosial (Lain-Lain)
Articles 46 Documents
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Evaluating Adaptive Assessment Models for Children with Special Needs in Christian Religious Education: A Mephibosheth-Inspired Hermeneutical Framework Novalyn Olly Tuegeh; Dicky Welly Kansil; Gilbert Timothy Majesty
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): May: International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v3i2.549

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The evaluation of adaptive assessment models for children with special needs within Christian Religious Education (CRE) presents unique pedagogical and theological challenges. Standardized assessments often fail to accommodate diverse cognitive, emotional, and physical abilities, inadvertently excluding these learners from meaningful spiritual evaluation. This article proposes a constructive and hermeneutical method to develop an alternative evaluative framework inspired by the biblical narrative of Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 9). Constructively, the study synthesizes principles from special education specifically Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and differentiated assessment with a theological anthropology grounded in imago Dei. Hermeneutically, the Mephibosheth narrative is reinterpreted not as a passive recipient of charity but as a paradigmatic figure whose "crippled feet" symbolize both vulnerability and dignified inclusion under divine grace. The resulting framework redefines assessment success not by normative performance metrics but by relational engagement, progress relative to individual capacity, and the affirmation of inherent worth before God. Key evaluative components include flexible modalities (verbal, artistic, kinesthetic), process-oriented feedback, and community-based affirmation. This Mephibosheth-inspired approach transforms assessment from a tool of exclusion into a means of grace, offering a theologically robust and pedagogically practical model for CRE practitioners to faithfully serve children of all abilities.
Pastoral Accompaniment for Congregants Experiencing Fear of Divine Punishment Donny Charles Chandra; Mie Lia; Yogi Mahendra
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 1 No. 4 (2024): November : International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v1i4.554

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Fear of divine punishment is a spiritually charged form of distress that appears in ordinary religious struggle, moral injury, shame-based faith formation, and, in some cases, scrupulosity. This article examines pastoral accompaniment for Christian congregants who interpret suffering, intrusive thoughts, moral imperfection, or ordinary uncertainty as evidence that God is angry and punitive. The study addresses a constructive problem: many pastoral responses either normalize fear as evidence of seriousness before God or dismiss it as irrational anxiety, yet both responses can intensify spiritual distress. Using a conceptual qualitative design, the article synthesizes peer-reviewed studies on religious and spiritual struggles, scrupulosity, spiritually integrated care, moral injury, and practical theology. The analysis proposes that pastoral care should neither dilute theological seriousness nor reinforce punitive images of God. Its main synthesis is a threefold pastoral framework, differentiated assessment, grace-oriented theological reframing, and collaborative accompaniment that includes referral when symptoms suggest obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma, depression, or suicidal risk. The article concludes that effective pastoral accompaniment moves congregants from retributive anxiety toward secure attachment to God, morally responsible agency, and communal practices of confession, assurance, lament, and restoration. The contribution is a constructive model for churches that treats fear of divine punishment as a theological-psychological struggle requiring discernment, doctrinal care, ethical boundaries, and interdisciplinary cooperation.
Pastoral Counseling Strategies for Congregants Experiencing Faith Degradation Due to Secular Digital Content Johni Hardori; Sabar Halawa; Heru Cahyono
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 1 No. 4 (2024): November : International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v1i4.555

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This article examines pastoral counseling strategies for congregants whose Christian faith is weakened by sustained exposure to secular digital content. The problem is not framed as a deterministic claim that digital media directly destroys faith, but as a practical-theological concern: algorithmic personalization, secular moral imaginaries, online doubt communities, entertainment habits, and fragmented attention can reshape belief, practice, belonging, and trust in church authority. The study aims to construct a counseling model that is theologically responsible, psychologically informed, and pastorally usable in local churches. Using a conceptual qualitative design, the article synthesizes literature from digital religion studies, mediatization theory, adolescent and emerging-adult religiosity, media psychology, religious coping, and spiritually integrated counseling. The analysis identifies three main findings. First, faith degradation should be diagnosed as a layered process involving cognitive doubt, affective dryness, moral dissonance, ritual discontinuity, and communal displacement. Second, pastoral counseling must move beyond prohibition toward discerning digital habits, rebuilding spiritual attention, and restoring relational trust. Third, an integrated strategy is proposed: assessment of digital-spiritual formation, narrative and theological reconstruction, communal re-embedding, and digital rule-of-life practices. The article concludes that pastoral counseling in the digital age should function as a ministry of interpretive accompaniment rather than merely corrective instruction.
Pastoral Accompaniment for Congregants Experiencing Relational Crisis Due to Digital Communication Apin Militia Christi; Yosua Imanuel; Yustina Marampa
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 1 No. 3 (2024): August : International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v1i3.556

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Digital communication has become part of the everyday fabric of congregational life. While it enables connection and pastoral accessibility, it also introduces relational tensions through divided attention, interpretive ambiguity, social comparison, online jealousy, concealed messaging, and the weakening of face-to-face reconciliation. This conceptual research article examines pastoral accompaniment for Christian congregants who experience relational crises caused or intensified by digital communication. The study aims to construct a pastoral framework that is theologically grounded, psychologically informed, ethically responsible, and usable in church ministry. Using an integrative literature review, the article synthesizes scholarship on digital religion, computer-mediated communication, relational conflict, phubbing, technoference, online counseling ethics, and practical theology. The synthesis indicates that digital relational crisis should not be reduced to excessive screen use. It is more accurately understood as a crisis of presence, attention, trust, boundaries, and interpretive charity. The article proposes pastoral accompaniment as a hybrid care that combines attentive presence, relational discernment, digital boundary formation, covenantal communication practices, and ethically bounded use of online media. It concludes that churches need to move beyond reactive counseling toward preventive digital discipleship that forms congregants in truthful speech, faithful presence, confidentiality, and relational accountability.
An Eschatological-Hope-Based Pastoral Counseling Model for Congregants Experiencing Bereavement Johannes S.P. Rajagukguk; Ricky Lukas; Ferdinand Edu
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024): February : International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v1i1.557

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This conceptual research article develops an eschatological-hope-based pastoral counseling model for congregants experiencing bereavement. Bereavement is not only an affective response to death but also a disruption of meaning, embodied routines, social belonging, and theological imagination. Contemporary grief research has clarified the distinction between normative grief, prolonged grief disorder, complicated spiritual grief, and the heterogeneous trajectories through which bereaved persons adapt. However, pastoral responses in local churches often remain fragmented, oscillating between sympathetic presence, doctrinal explanation, ritual care, and informal advice without an integrated model that is clinically cautious and theologically constructive. This study employs a qualitative constructive literature review, synthesizing bereavement psychology, meaning reconstruction theory, spiritual care research, and Christian eschatological theology. The article proposes the PASTOR model: Presence, Assessment, Story, Scripture, Theological lament, Ongoing communal practice, and referral and review. The main synthesis argues that eschatological hope should not be used to bypass grief but to hold lament, embodied absence, continuing bonds, and future-oriented resurrection hope within a disciplined pastoral process. The model contributes a practical framework for churches seeking to accompany mourners without medicalizing ordinary grief, minimizing suffering, or ignoring cases that require professional mental health referral.
A Pastoral Counseling Model for Christian Generation Z Experiencing Future Anxiety Susanna Kathryn; Anggia Hapsari; Ronny Taufik
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024): February : International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v1i1.558

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Christian Generation Z is negotiating adulthood within an unusually dense field of uncertainty: unstable work transitions, digital comparison, climate concern, post-pandemic disruption, and shifting religious participation. These conditions intensify future anxiety, understood here as anticipatory apprehension toward an unfavorable personal future. This article aims to construct a pastoral counseling model for Christian Gen Z who experience future anxiety without reducing their distress either to a clinical disorder alone or to insufficient faith. Because no field data were collected, the study uses a constructive conceptual design grounded in an integrative literature review, practical theological reasoning, and a critical synthesis of psychological, pastoral, and youth mental health scholarship published before 2024. The analysis identifies three main findings. First, future anxiety among Christian Gen Z is best interpreted as a narrative disruption of agency, meaning, belonging, and hope. Second, pastoral counseling requires an integrative stance that combines spiritual competence, evidence-informed anxiety care, digital awareness, and ecclesial accompaniment. Third, the article proposes the SELAH model: Situational-spiritual assessment, Empathic presence, Lament and meaning reconstruction, Adaptive agency planning, and Hope-building ecclesial accompaniment. The model offers a non-reductive framework for churches, counselors, and Christian educators while emphasizing referral, ethical boundaries, and further empirical testing.

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