RE-IMAGINING MODEL GEREJA KONTEKSTUAL YANG LIBERATIF DI ASIA DENGAN INSPIRASI TEOLOGIS DARI CHOAN-SENG SONG DAN AHN BYUNG-MU

At the same time as the sense of solidarity among Asian Churches is growing through Federation of Asian Bishop Conference (FABC), the effort to understand what it means to be a Church in Asia becomes more profound. We can mention several theological approaches which trying to reconstruct a distinctive face of the Asian Church, for example Choan-Seng Song who develops contextual theology with a transpositional mode. Starting from his critical position against the tendency of Western-centered nature of Christian theology, Song raised four important elements in a reorientation towards contextual theological exploration, namely vision, community, passion, and "imagi-nation". Besides him, it is also appropriate for us to review the efforts of South Korean theologians, especially Ahn Byung-Mu, in proposing Minjung Theology. For Ahn, a contextual theology should also be liberative. The two theological ideas of contextual-liberative Church above are prompting us to continuously imagine and strive for an Asian ecclesiology, especially in Indonesia.