Formation Through Disorientation: Reframing Reduced Personal Accomplishment in Indonesian Church
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https://doi.org/10.32862/k.20.1.5Keywords:
Formation Through Disorientation, Pastoral Burnout, Reduced Personal Accomplishment, Theology of Vocation, Indonesian Minority ChurchAbstract
This article intervenes in contemporary practical theological discourse on clergy burnout by critically reexamining the category of Reduced Personal Accomplishment (RPA). Dominant burnout frameworks interpret RPA primarily as diminished professional efficacy within performance oriented anthropological assumptions. This study argues that such assumptions are theologically misaligned with ecclesial vocation and insufficient for interpreting ministerial experience, particularly in contexts marked by minority church pressures. Employing constructive practical theological methodology, the article proposes Formation Through Disorientation as a normative framework that reconfigures RPA as vocational disorientation rather than functional deficit. Integrating vocation theology, imago Dei anthropology, and cruciform spirituality, the framework reorients burnout discourse from managerial restoration toward ontological realignment of ministerial identity. Drawing on Indonesian minority church realities as a critical case, the article contributes a Global South theological anthropology that challenges dominant Western paradigms and advances practical theology’s engagement with identity, legitimacy, and perseverance in ministry.
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