Mengungkap Misteri Bunuh Diri di Kupang, NTT: Seminar Interdisipliner dan Rekonstruksi Komunitas Pemulih Berbasis Teologi Trauma
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https://doi.org/10.47457/jps.v6i2.607Keywords:
church, healing, interdisciplinary, pastoral presence, suicide, trauma theologyAbstract
The seminar “MENGUNGKAP MISTERI BUNUH DIRI: Antara Trauma, Mental Breakdown, dan Jejak Forensik (Unveiling the Mystery of Suicide: Between Trauma, Mental Breakdown, and Forensic Traces) represents a practical theological response to suicide as a multidimensional crisis—psychological, spiritual, and social. This article presents a systematic reflection on the seminar using a qualitative-reflective approach within the framework of trauma theology. Findings reveal that suicide should not be interpreted merely as a personal pathology or faith failure, but as an extreme expression of disrupted meaning caused by unresolved trauma. The interdisciplinary intervention—clinical psychiatry, forensic medicine, and trauma-informed theology—created dialogical spaces that dismantled taboos, nurtured collective empathy, and restructured pastoral practices within the church. The study shows that today’s church must shift from normative proclamation to becoming a healing community that dares to dwell within wounds. This seminar emerges as an ecclesiological moment that embodies an alternative liturgy, not in sacraments, but in the communion of woundedness. The article affirms that evangelism in the age of trauma begins not with doctrine, but with presence, non-judgment, and narratives that embrace suffering as an essential part of Christian spirituality.
Kegiatan seminar “MENGUNGKAP MISTERI BUNUH DIRI: Antara Trauma, Mental Breakdown, dan Jejak Forensik” merupakan respon teologis berbasis praktik terhadap fenomena bunuh diri sebagai krisis multidimensional: psikis, spiritual, dan sosial. Tulisan ini menyajikan refleksi sistematis dari seminar tersebut dengan pendekatan kualitatif-reflektif dan kerangka teologi trauma. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa bunuh diri tidak dapat dipahami hanya sebagai patologi personal atau kegagalan iman, melainkan sebagai ekspresi ekstrem dari keterputusan makna akibat luka yang tidak diberi ruang untuk dimaknai. Intervensi lintas bidang yaitu psikiatri klinis, forensik medis, dan teologi trauma, menghasilkan ruang dialogis yang mampu membongkar tabu, menumbuhkan empati kolektif, dan mereformasi struktur pastoral gereja. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa gereja masa kini perlu bergeser dari posisi pewarta normatif menuju komunitas pemulih yang berani tinggal dalam luka. Seminar ini menjadi peristiwa eklesiologis baru yang merepresentasikan bentuk liturgi alternatif, bukan dalam sakramen, melainkan dalam perjamuan luka bersama. Kajian ini menegaskan bahwa penginjilan dalam era trauma tidak dimulai dari doktrin, melainkan dari kehadiran yang tidak menghakimi dan narasi yang merangkul penderitaan sebagai bagian sah dari spiritualitas Kristen.
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