The sound and the word logos is thought to echo everything that exists in the West just like the word Om is thought to do in India. Logos and Om also echo our death. Maybe we have to begin from death to let things be. Let things exist as they are without anthropocentric significance to humans. Maybe if we...
The Mysterium Convivium and the Gospel of Creation
The word animal is an unsaying word. It unsays more than it says. In fact, it cannot truly say. There is a limit on what it can say. It cannot say the entire diversity of all the species of animals. The recognition of limits and creaturely peculiarities of every animal as well as species unsays the vast category of...
Intellectual Approach to Pastoral Ministry
One question is lingering on my mind: ‘Do we need an intellectual and learned approach to ministries in our parishes?’ The question has sharpened because in Goa we now seem to have the challenge to take pastoral care of the third generation of the literate people of God. This does not mean that the situation is so bad that...
The Ideal, the Political and the Pastoral
Being in a parish and engaging with pastoral care has raised an interesting question in my mind. It asks how we uncritically link idealism and performativity. This linking of idealism with performativity makes us think that the conditions and persons that reach the standards of idealism also simultaneously reach the standards of performativity There is a kind of apriorism...
Sharing Meals with God
Humanity all over the world shares meals with God. God who is source of our food becomes our guest in these food sharing traditions . There is the God welcome inscribed in nature and humans. This sharing of meals with God shares in this God’s welcome. In fact we share God’s image and likeness and live out this God’s...
Phronesis in the Life and Work of Fr. Thomas Stephens.
Fr Thomas Stephens’ genius and dexterity in the composition of his great opus, Krista Purana has been widely recognized and profoundly studied. Besides this knowledge and skills, Thomas Stephens exhibits practical wisdom in the choices of his interlocutors, dialogical form for his Catechism, Greco-Latin grammar as a model for Konkani grammar, shift to Marathi from Konkani, choice of Smrti...
The Logic of sameness and the logic of otherness and the Quest for Inter-being communion
The interpretive community in Goa is split. It represents a world of boundaries, the space that is not yet been dialogically opened and often perceived to be chaotic and even evil. One can only view a dividing line that sees itself as a realm of uneasiness ready to erupt into a confrontation based on real or imagined differences felt...
Thomas Stephens and Christ in the Alphabets of Puranic Tradition
Thomas Stephens’ great work Krista Purana necessitates the study of puranic tradition. His deliberate choice of a religious literary genre to present the message of Christ to the Goans and people from surrounding areas is indeed a pioneering act. After him, other Jesuits also attempted to enshrine Christian message or life of saints in the literary form of a...
The Significance of Death drive and Death of Jesus Christ
Psychoanalysis has entered the domain of theology. The phrase ‘psychology and Bible’ has come into vogue. Psychological approaches to the Holy Scripture are not new. We can trace the roots of biblical psychology in the work of Tertulian and St. Augustine. Moreover, the discipline of Psychology was born in the arms of theology in the 16th century. From that...
Discerning possibilities of being Indian Christians Today
There are no allies on the side of the minorities. The Majoritarian politics is in no mood to compromise. Dialogue and tolerance is viewed as the option of the weak. Obscurantism and monstrosity has become main streams. The killerati mobs seem to have a free run.Media seem to refuse to speak truth to power. It is surprising that several...
