TABLE OF CONTENT

FRONT PAGE

NON-ENGLISH TERMS AND EXPRESSIONS

MAPS

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Description of Topic

1.2. Limitation of Topic and Methodology

CHAPTER TWO: THEORETICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS

2.1. The Centrality of the Scripture in Christian Tradition

2.2. The Gospel as the Hermeneutic of the Scripture

2.3. Hodegesis as a Hermeneutical Tool for Christians in Bringing Out the Gospel Messages into Real Life

2.4. Christianity, Colonialism and Post-colonialism

2.5. Ethnicity

       2. 5. 1. Ethnic Group

       2. 5. 2. Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Identification

       2. 5. 3. Ethnocentrism

2.6. Culture, Religion and Ethnic Identity

2.7. Contextual Theology

CHAPTER THREE: ROMANS EUANGELION

3.1. Rome and Ethnic Diversity

3.2. The Author of Romans

3.3. The Recipients

3.4. The Purpose of the Epistle

3.5. Ethnic and Cultural Identity in the Epistle to the Romans

CHAPTER FOUR: MINAHASA TRADITIONS AND ETHNIC IDENTITY

4.1. The Name of Minahasa and Minahasan Ethnicity

4.2. Toar and Lumimuut and Minahasan Traditional Society

       4.2.1. Astronomical Knowledge

       4.2.2. Political Organization

       4.2.3. Social-economic Practices

       4.2.4. Medicine

       4.2.4. Minahasan Ethnic Religion

CHAPTER FIVE: CHRISTIANITY IN MINAHASA: FROM THE ERA OF COLONIALISM TO INDEPENDENCE

5.1. The Period of the Spanish and Portuguese (1568-1666)

5.2. The Period of the V. O. C. and the Netherlands East Indies (1667-1945)

5.3. The Period of Indonesia's Independence (1945-present)

CHAPTER SIX: A MINAHASAN LOCAL THEOLOGY

6.1. The Role of Local Languages in Minahasan Christian Traditions

6.2. Minahasan Christology: Jesus Christ as Our Empung

6.3. Empung Yesus as Si Tou Timou Tumou Tou Paripurna

6.4. The Honor and Honoring Our Ancestors

CHAPTER SEVEN: CONTEXT, REFLECTION AND A PROPOSAL FOR ACTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIXES

Appendix 1: Zazanian ni Karema (The Song of Karema)

Appendix 2: Minahasan Walaks ±1679-1817

Appendix 3: The allotment of the land according to the rituals and languages at Watu Pinawetengan

Appendix 4: GMIM's emblem

Appendix 5: Mapalus in pictures