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Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Published by Universitas Katolik Parahyangan
ISSN : 08520089     EISSN : 24068098     DOI : https://doi.org/10.26593
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Education, Art, Social,
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The aim of this Journal is to promote a righteous approach to exploration, analysis, and research on philosophy, humanities, culture and anthropology, phenomenology, ethics, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. The scope of this journal allows for philosophy, humanities, philosophy of culture and anthropology, phenomenological philosophy, epistemology, ethics, business ethics, philosophy of religion, religious studies, theology, dogmatic theology, systematic theology, theology of sacrament, moral theology, biblical theology, and pastoral theology.
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Catholic Political Formation Based on Jacques Maritain’s Personalism: A Pastoral Model in the Diocese of Bogor, Indonesia Mateus Elbert Biliyandi
MELINTAS Vol. 41 No. 2 (2025): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/dmf76b47

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Catholic political engagement faces not only a shortage of prepared cadres but also the need for formation that integrates faith, personal integrity, and civic responsibility. Studies of political theology have tended to emphasize prophetic critique and normative principles, while research has paid limited attention to the formation of political actors grounded in personalism within local pastoral contexts. This study aimed to analyze the relevance of Jacques Maritain’s personalism to Catholic political formation and to formulate a formation model that addressed the pastoral needs of the Diocese of Bogor, Indonesia. The study employed a qualitative contextual theology approach based on Stephen B. Bevans’s synthetic model. The primary sources included Jacques Maritain’s works, Scripture, Gaudium et Spes, Fratelli Tutti, and relevant scholarly literature. An interview with the Chair of the Commission for the Lay Apostolate of the Diocese of Bogor provided supporting contextual data. The study analyzed the data through a thematic-interpretive process that brought philosophical and theological sources into dialogue with the pastoral context. The analysis identified four dimensions of political formation: personal integrity rooted in the dignity of the person, an orientation toward the common good, the integration of faith and citizenship, and sociopolitical responsibility. The synthesis of these dimensions produced a four-stage formation model: formation of the person, orientation toward the common good, integration of faith and citizenship, and actualization of sociopolitical responsibility. The study concluded that increasing participation alone could not adequately address the challenges of Catholic political engagement. Formation needed to precede and accompany political engagement so that Catholics could act as moral subjects who integrated faith with citizenship and directed political action toward the common good. The study contributed to the literature by recontextualizing Maritain’s personalism from a framework of political anthropology into a formative-pastoral framework through the conceptual trajectory of personalism–formation–citizenship–political praxis–common good. This model offered a conceptual framework for developing Catholic political formation within Indonesia’s religiously plural society and provided a foundation for future empirical testing.
Para Pendosa dan Keselamatan di Luar Institusi Haryo Tejo Bawono
MELINTAS Vol. 41 No. 3 (2025): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v41i3.299-302

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Forgiveness in the Spirituality of Jan Ruff-O’Herne Roderick O'Brien
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 1 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i1.1-22

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Forgiveness occupies a central place in Christian spirituality, particularly in the Lord’s Prayer. The life and advocacy of Jeanne Alida (Jan) Ruff-O’Herne offer a compelling contemporary expression of this virtue. Drawing on her experiences of sexual violence during the Japanese occupation of Java, this article examines forgiveness as a defining characteristic of her spirituality. Jan’s capacity to forgive her abusers, even while enduring abuse and continuing to confront its painful memories, illustrates her commitment to unconditional and unilateral forgiveness. Her understanding of forgiveness challenges the assumption that it necessarily depends on an offender’s repentance, the healing of traumatic wounds, or reconciliation. Rooted in the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi and shaped by her family and Franciscan religious sisters, Jan’s approach remains relevant to contemporary experiences of sexual violence, wartime atrocities, and human humiliation. This article proposes that her lived experience offers contemporary readers a Gospel-centered understanding of forgiveness that acknowledges enduring suffering without making forgiveness contingent upon forgetting, healing, or reconciliation. Her testimony thus illuminates the continuing ethical and spiritual significance of forgiveness amid experiences of profound injustice.
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ as the Foundation of Contextual Theology: An Analysis of Ecclesia in Asia Fransisco Leonardo Febrian Seles
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 1 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i1.39-54

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The encounter between Christian faith and Asia’s religious and cultural diversity raises theological questions about the relationship between Christological identity and theological contextualization. However, previous scholarship has not systematically explained how Ecclesia in Asia positions the Incarnation as a theological principle that connects these dimensions with the Church’s missionary orientation. This study aimed to examine the Incarnation of Jesus Christ as a Christological foundation, explain its relationship to contextual theology, and explore its implications for the Catholic Church’s mission in Asia. The study employed a qualitative research design based on library research and theological content analysis. It examined Ecclesia in Asia as its primary source and drew on ecclesiastical documents and relevant theological literature to support its interpretation. The findings revealed that Ecclesia in Asia articulated the Incarnation through the centrality of Christ, the historical particularity of his humanity, and the universality of salvation. The historical character of the Incarnation provided a conceptual foundation for contextual theology that engages Asian cultures while preserving Christian identity. This principle also informed Christian proclamation, interreligious dialogue, and humanitarian service as complementary dimensions of the Church’s mission. The study concluded that the Incarnation provided a theological foundation for integrating Christological fidelity, cultural openness, and missionary responsibility without equating the unique event of the Incarnation with inculturation or pastoral practice. This study contributed an integrative theological interpretation that connected Christian revelation, contextual theology, and the Church’s missionary orientation within Asia’s pluralistic societies.
Method, Metaphysics, and Ethics in Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion: A Philosophical Critique Daniel Akhondi
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 2 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i2.95-118

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Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion has significantly shaped contemporary debates on atheism, religion, and science. However, previous philosophical critiques have largely examined its methodological, metaphysical, and ethical problems separately, leaving their structural interconnections insufficiently explained. This study aimed to evaluate the philosophical consistency of Dawkins’s critique across these three levels and to determine how far its conclusions could be sustained when arguments moved between scientific, metaphysical, and ethical domains. The study employed qualitative philosophical analysis grounded in the philosophy of religion. Through conceptual clarification, charitable argument reconstruction, and comparative engagement with both critical and sympathetic scholarship, it examined the scope, assumptions, and implications of Dawkins’s principal arguments. The findings revealed a recurrent pattern of argumentative overextension. Methodologically, the central problem concerned epistemic scope, particularly when scientific explanation, reductive definitions, rhetorical analogies, or empirical generalizations carried conclusions beyond their evidential support. Metaphysically, this developed into a problem of ontological scope, especially in transferring concepts of complexity, probability, and causal explanation from natural entities to classical conceptions of God. Ethically, the analysis identified a problem of evaluative symmetry when causal and moral responsibility was not assessed by equivalent standards across religious and non-religious phenomena. The study concluded that Dawkins’s critique remained strongest when directed toward empirically assessable religious claims, fundamentalism, evidential immunity, and attempts to subordinate scientific inquiry to religious authority. Its conclusions became less decisive when scientific explanatory success was extended to metaphysical or normative questions without additional philosophical premises. The study developed an integrated framework of epistemic scope, ontological scope, and evaluative symmetry to explain how methodological, metaphysical, and ethical difficulties in The God Delusion are structurally connected. This framework reframes the debate from a simple opposition between science and religion toward the philosophical problem of argumentative overextension across explanatory domains.
Liturgi Sekuler dalam Film Survival Haryo Tejo Bawono
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 1 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i1.89-94

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Penciptaan Makna dalam Narasi dan Layar Kaca: Meaning-Making in Narratives and on Screen Haryo Tejo Bawono
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 2 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i2.193-200

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Ketaktergantikan dalam Waktu-Ruang: Eksistensi sebagai Proses Menjadi dalam Filsafat Gilles Deleuze: Irreplaceability in Spacetime: Existence as Becoming in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy Stephanus Djunatan
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 1 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i1.55-70

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Modern understandings of time and space tend to position them as external frameworks that structure human life. This perspective raises fundamental philosophical questions concerning the relationship between temporal processes, change, and the uniqueness of human existence. This study aimed to analyze Gilles Deleuze's philosophical arguments concerning time-space and to explain how the process of becoming shapes unique and irreplaceable human existence. Employing a qualitative approach, this study adopted library research and philosophical-interpretative analysis of Deleuze's thought, particularly his works Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense. The findings revealed that time does not determine the unfolding of processes; rather, it is constituted through the synthesis of past, present, and future events. These processes unfold through horizontal and vertical interconnections involving multiplicity, singularity, contraction, and repetition. The relationship between Chronos and Aion demonstrated that human existence is constituted through temporal experiences characterized by both continuity and the emergence of novelty. The study concluded that human uniqueness is not determined solely by biological or social identity or inherent attributes, but emerges through the experience of becoming, shaped by interconnected events, memory, habits, and active reflection. This study offered an ontological understanding of human irreplaceability through Deleuze's philosophy of time-space, thereby extending philosophical discussions of subjectivity, singularity, and the meaningfulness of human existence in modern life.
Developing Lay-Based Spiritual Fraternity Models through Ecumenical Dialogue and Cooperation Giovanni Christian Tholla; Hadrianus Tedjoworo
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 1 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i1.71-88

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Ecumenical fraternity among Christian Churches faced challenges arising from prejudice, denominational differences, and limited lay participation. Previous studies had not adequately explained how laypeople’s perceptions, inner dispositions, and relational barriers could inform practical models of spiritual fraternity. This study aimed to examine the theological foundations of ecumenical dialogue, investigate laypeople’s perceptions and relational barriers, and develop models of dialogue and cooperation that could strengthen spiritual fraternity among Christians. The study employed a qualitative descriptive-interpretive approach. The researchers interviewed 12 Catholic and Protestant participants, conducted a focus group discussion with nine members of the Legion of Mary in Buahbatu, Bandung, and consulted two institutional informants from Bogor and Buahbatu. Thematic analysis integrated empirical findings with theological principles of ecumenism. The findings revealed that nine interview participants (75%) recognized spiritual fraternity across Christian Churches, while ten (83.3%) expressed openness to shared prayer. Nevertheless, prejudice, denominational concerns, and differences in religious practices constrained ecumenical engagement. The analysis generated three proposed models: “Learning from One Another,” “Living Room Encounters,” and “Spiritual Care.” The study concluded that sustainable ecumenical fraternity required theological understanding, relational openness, interpersonal trust, and spiritual solidarity. The proposed models offered complementary approaches to lay participation, although the study did not evaluate their effectiveness. The study contributed a pastoral-theological framework that connected receptive ecumenism with ministry of the laity. This framework offered contextual pastoral orientations for strengthening interchurch dialogue, cooperation, and spiritual fraternity in Indonesia.
Kritik Heidegger terhadap Teknologi Modern dalam Perspektif Metafisika Thomas Aquinas: Heidegger’s Critique of Modern Technology from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics Paulus Sunu Sukmono Wasi
MELINTAS Vol. 42 No. 2 (2026): Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v42i2.135-156

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The growing dominance of modern technology in human life raises philosophical questions concerning the relationship between knowledge, being, and will. Although Heidegger offers an ontological critique of technology, the questions of metaphysical grounding and finality in his thought warrant further critical examination. This study aims to analyze Martin Heidegger’s epistemological position on technology through the interrelationship between knowing, being, and willing, and to evaluate it from the perspective of Thomas Aquinas’s epistemology and metaphysics. Employing a qualitative approach, this study uses library research and comparative philosophical analysis of Heidegger’s major works on technology and Aquinas’s metaphysical thought. The findings indicate that Heidegger understands technology as a mode of revealing reality that reduces nature to Bestand, or standing-reserve. Through Gelassenheit (releasement) and meditative thinking, Heidegger proposes an alternative attitude toward technological domination. However, his approach leaves unresolved questions concerning ontological grounding and finality. This study concludes that Heidegger’s critique of technology raises the need for a grounding of being that remains insufficiently articulated within his philosophical framework. Aquinas’s concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic finality provide an alternative metaphysical foundation for understanding the relationship between humanity, nature, and technology. The study contributes a critical interpretation of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology through Thomistic finalistic realism, thereby enriching discussions on the epistemology and ontology of technology while offering a reflective framework for evaluating the purposes of modern technological practices.

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