ABSTRACT
Theologian and musician Christian Izaac Tamaela was the protagonist of the GPM’s (Gereja Protestan Maluku – Moluccan Protestant Church) contextual shift. His ideas and teachings on the contextualization of church music form the basis of this book. Tamaela saw music as the heart of theology and conceptualized music as being human. Tamaela composed contextualized hymns and created Moluccan traditional instruments. In his classes about traditional church music, Tamaela taught his students to become ‘contextualizers.’ The author describes Moluccan people’s opinions about Tamaela’s theological views and explains the concept of the ‘ethnic modern.’
