MEMAKNAI PLEROMA (KEPENUHAN KEALLAHAN) KRISTUS DALAM RELASI INTERRELIGIUS DI INDONESIA Tafsiran Kontekstual Atas Kolose 2:6-15

Abstract

This article attempts to reinterpreting the New Testament’s texts from the perspective of religious pluralism in Indonesia. Particularly, the meaning of Christ’s pleroma ‘the fullness of Godhead’, in which the Colossian community grapple with in Colossian 2:6-15, would be reinterpreted. Is this pleroma emphasized the exclusivity or even the superiority of Christ out of other religions or culture’s icon/fi gure/hero? Or, in fact, is this pleroma pushed the community of faith to move out to mixed and lived together in equality? Based on historical criticism approach, the writer found that the pleroma, which is developed in the text of Colossian 2:6-15, consists of full and total comprehension of the pleroma in the pluralistic context. The pleroma pushs its community to live up the essence of self existence in the construct that is integrated with all other creation. In fact, the pleroma marks the perfectness of “Christ’s victory” fullfi led in the unity of all creation, not only in one religious primordial and exclusive border. Community has been more directed to be wise on established relations, appreciated the traditions and also the leaders, and to admit the diversity, which means the uniqueness of every single person and creation, and maintain it for framed and stringed up the rooms of pluralism. On this meaning, exactly, there is a correlation to the interpretation of this text with interreligious context in Indonesia which has to be celebrated and grateful for over and over again.

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