This article seeks to unveil the triangulated forces which challenge contemporary democracy in Indonesia. Those forces are irrational fear, the problem of likeness (like and unlike), and the grip of Leviathanic force. Indonesia’s secular yet religious democracy struggles to deal with a real polarization amongst the citizens as a consequence. The present intention is to explore a critical view of a public theology that asserts hope and ‘knowing the other’ as a viable virtue for the Christian response. Drawing on Martha Nussbaum’s view of the monarchy of irrational fear and Jürgen Moltmann’s notion of hope and faith for the sake of a practice of ‘knowing others’, the article sketches the roots of this polarization and considers how Indonesians can recover their democracy from below through daily religious engagement.

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民主的三角挑战：公共神学的批评声音，以对抗印度尼西亚的恐惧和不断升级的两极分化


本文旨在揭示挑战印度尼西亚当代民主的三角力量。这些力量是非理性的恐惧、相似性问题（相似和不同）以及利维坦力量的控制。因此，印度尼西亚的世俗宗教民主难以应对公民之间真正的两极分化。目前的目的是探索一种对公共神学的批判性观点，该观点主张希望和“了解他人”是基督教回应的可行美德。本文借鉴玛莎·努斯鲍姆关于非理性恐惧的君主制的观点，以及尤尔根·莫尔特曼为了“了解他人”的实践而希望和信仰的概念，概述了这种两极分化的根源，并考虑了印度尼西亚人如何通过以下方式从下层恢复民主：日常宗教活动。