Printed: 195 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, cream interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink
Description:
This book initiates the dialogue between literature and theology in Indonesia in order to compose a distinctively Indonesian narrative theology. It re-imagines literary artist as the poet of humanity and theologian as the poet of God.It reflects on two recent historical events, the May tragedy of 1998 and the Tsunami of 2004.
Narrative theology invites us to re-define theology from a science to a poetry of God, and the theologian as scientist to a poet of God. It emphasizes the experience of God who encounters human persons in history using human words or images, and brings salvation to the suffering people. Dialogical interaction with literati raises consciousness among theologians so that God, theological imagination and truth become the main pillar of narrative theology. Theology as poetry of God brings a new emphasis on God as the subject in theology. The poet of God also lays stress on theological imagination which brings salvation to the suffering people. We live in what Johann Baptist Metz calls a “post-narrative age,” which tends to ignore the suffering people and their narrative word and image to encounter God.
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