Michael Amaladoss, S.J. According to Pope Francis The focus of the recent encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, is to save our sister Earth, our common home, from total destruction by the irresponsible use that we humans make of it. We have reached a stage that, if we do not take appropriate steps to save...Read More

Swami Abhishiktananda was not a professional systematic theologian according to the current common understanding. He was a sage narrating his spiritual search, his encounters and pilgrimages and reflecting over his experiences partly to clarify (to himself) his own understanding of them and partly to explain to his friends, mostly in France, what he was living...Read More

Michael Amaladoss, S.J In unravelling the complex topic, “Art and biblical imagery – theological perspectives (India)” , I wish to take the following orientations: First of all, I am talking as a theologian, though I am also an artist, being a trained musician and also interested in the other arts. So I will be speaking...Read More

The beginnings of ashram life certainly mark a new stage in the encounter between the Gospel and the cultures and religions of India. The first Indian Christian ashram was probably the dwelling of Roberto de Nobili, who lived like a Hindu sannyasi. Many of the missionaries who followed him must have lived the same kind...Read More

Religions Challenging Status Inequality Human society is made up of many sub-systems: economic, political, social, cultural and religious. Among these it is customary to oppose the sacred or religious to the secular which includes all the other systems. Which of these is primary? The Marxists consider the economic as primary and look on religion as...Read More

Asia has been the cradle of all the world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, |Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, etc. Asian countries have been multi-religious. Thanks to migrations caused by the desire, either to escape war and oppression or to seek economic betterment, supplying at the same time a necessary labour force in rapidly developing...Read More

The role of other religions in salvation in the context of the Christian affirmation that Jesus is the Saviour of all humans has been a point of lively discussion in Asian theology in recent years. The difficulty and the timeliness of this question have been pointed out by the document Dominus Iesus. It says: “In...Read More

The Second Vatican Council took a positive step in opening up the Church to dialogue with the other religions and with the world with its documents on Other Religions and on the Church in the Modern World. There was some dialogue with other religions happening in India even before the Council. The first Indian Benedictine...Read More

Challenges and Opportunities It is nearly 50 years ago, on October 28, 1965, that the Second Vatican Council published its “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions”, Nostra Aetate (NA). Many developments in the field of interreligious dialogue have taken place since then. In the context of the thrust towards New Evangelization,...Read More

Michael Amaladoss S.J. Abstract: God seems to be silent when people like Jesus or Job appeal to him in the midst of suffering. Sometimes people who want to speak about God are obliged to be silent because God is not accessible to the senses and to conceptual reason. The mystics assert that God is beyond...Read More