Sadrach's Community and Its Contextual Roots : : A Nineteenth-Century Javanese Expression of Christianity / / Sutarman Soediman Partonadi.

• Superior document: Currents of Encounter Series ; v.3
• VerfasserIn: Partonadi, Sutarman Soediman,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL Academic Publishers,, 2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A. Subject of study -- 1. Sadrach's community -- 2. The uniqueness of Sadrach's community -- 3. Sadrach's community as a case study of contextualization -- B. Area and purpose of study -- 1. Area of study -- 2. Purpose of study -- C. Composition of the Book -- D. Sources and literature -- Chapter I: Central Java in the nineteenth century -- A. Javanese life in the nineteenth century -- 1. Javanese socio-cultural life and the Dutch colonial government's policy -- 2. Javanese socio-religious life -- B. Christian missions in the nineteenth century -- 1. Christianization of the indigenous people by the "official church" -- 2. Christianization of the indigenous people by missionary organizations -- 3. Christianization of indigenous people by lay evangelists -- 4. Obstacles to evangelization -- Chapter II: Sadrach and his community -- A. Sadrach's life from early youth to independent Javanese evangelist -- 1. Sadrach's early youth -- 2. Sadrach's education: Koran school and pesantren -- 3. Sadrach's conversion -- 4. Sadrach's work as a distributor of Christian literature -- 5. Sadrach's work with Tunggul Wulung -- 6. Sadrach's work with Stevens-Philips -- B. Developing an independent Javanese Christian community -- 1. Background of the Residency of Bagelen and Karangjasa in the nineteenth century -- 2. The initial steps to the Vaccination Affair -- 3. Enjoying cooperation with J. Wilhelm of the NGZV (1883-1892) -- 4. The relationship with the NGZV broken (1893) -- 5. Seeking a new partner and becoming the apostle of Java (1894-1924) -- 6. Sadrach's community during the first decade after Sadrach's death (1924-1933) -- Chapter III: Features of Sadrach's community -- A. Organization, leadership, and membership.

1. Organization -- 2. Leadership -- 3. Membership -- B. Worship, preaching, and ritual -- 1. Worship -- 2. Sadrach's preaching: the triumphant Christ and Christian obedience -- 3. Rituals -- C. Spiritual life and the spirit of independence -- 1. The spiritual life of Sadrach's community -- 2. The spirit of independence (keberdikarian) -- Chapter IV: Issues raised against Sadrach and his community -- A. The mission theology of the Reformed Mission and its implementation -- B. Accusations against Sadrach and his community and the resulting theological-missiological issues -- 1. Accusations as recorded in various sources -- 2. Elucidation of the accusations against Sadrach -- C. The theological and missiological issues arising from the accusations -- 1. The objection to Sadrach's great and "unlimited" authority -- 2. The objection to the Javanized character of Sadrach's teachings -- Chapter V: The significance of Sadrach's contribution to the contextualizing efforts of the church - A summation -- A. The independent leadership of Sadrach -- B. Sadrach's community, rooted in the context -- 1. Sadrach's community and the rural environment -- 2. Sadrach's community and the Moslem environment -- 3. Sadrach's community and the age of feudalism-colonialism -- C. Contextualization and deficient implementation of Reformed mission strategy -- D. A reconstruction of Sadrach's Christology and soteriology -- E. A genuine community of Christ - Javanese culture "op een stoel" (on a chair) -- F. Sadrach's warning to the churches: the serious danger of uprootedness and alienation -- Samenvatting -- Ringkasan isi desertasi -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Synopsis of Reformed churches and Reformed mission organisations -- Appendix II: Wilhelm's Letter of Call from Sadrach's Community -- Appendix III: Statistical tables.

Appendix IV: Letter of recognition of Sadrach's apostleship: "legitimatie en erkenningsbewijs" -- Appendix V: Liturgical use of creeds, Ten Commandments and prayers in Sadrach's Community -- Appendix VI: Map of NGZV mission field in Central Java -- Appendix VII: Map showing locations of Sadrach communities -- Glossary of foreign terms -- Sources consulted -- Index of subjects -- Index of authors and names.