Theological Writings
Christian Message
17/08/2011 01:05
THE CHRIST-LIFE MUST BE LIVED
Jesus Christ lived and symbolised divine consciousness. He was the very personification of divinity. He was born at a time when ignorance, superstition, greed, hatred and hypocrisy prevailed upon India, as elsewhere. The rulers were arrogant and...
Dalai Lama
17/08/2011 00:55
The Dalai Lama: Solving Human Problems
The Dalai Lama on solving human problems:
Of the many problems we face today, some are natural calamities and must be accepted and faced with equanimity. Others, however, are of our own making, created by misunderstanding, and can be corrected. Of...
Christian Concept of Heaven
26/07/2011 17:45
Heaven
Heaven may refer to the physical heavens, the Earths atmosphere, the solar system or the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond, though it is generally spoken of as a plane of existence (sometimes held to exist in our own universe) in religions and spiritual philosophies,...
Burmes Need this Christ
24/07/2011 19:27
Our images of Jesus Christ matter most. We need the Christ of the Jesus of history. But the Christ people at the margins need maybe different from the Christ people in the “comfort zone.”
We envision the historical Jesus who never puts himself at the center but always takes the margins. Many of...
Burmes Don't need This Christ
24/07/2011 19:18
Sometimes we understand something, some concepts or some reality when expressed in the apposite term. Our image of Christ is the Other. This is the Christ we cannot accept and the Christ we reject. In many ways, the Christ the non-Christians do not believe is also the...
Burmes Face of Jesus
24/07/2011 19:16
Burmese Faces of Jesus
Burmese Faces of Jesus: In Search of Contextual Christological Titles
There are many Christs in Myanmar. The Portuguese Christ and the French Christ are the...
Tribal Theology
24/07/2011 19:10
Primal theology is the theology of any of the many primal religions. Thus, there is not just one primal theology but many primal theologies, though most of them have something in common between them. Also known as tribal theology, primal theology is considered to be primitive in nature...
The Emerging Dalit Theology: A Historical Appraisal
24/07/2011 19:03
by George Oommen
merged in the Asian theological scene. This theology began to take shape in the early 80’s when A.P. Nirmal, then a faculty member at the United Theological College, floated the idea of "Shudra Theology." But now, Dalit theology has come of age and it stands by its own...
Dalit Theology
24/07/2011 18:59
Dalit Theology
Dalit Theology in the Twenty-first Century: Discordant Voices, Discerning Pathways
fulfills many a requirement in Dalit thought, especially as the Indian theological scenario
attempts to make Dalit theology all the more participatory and relevant among the academia,...
Water Buffalo Theology
24/07/2011 18:53
Water Buffalo Theology
Water Buffalo Theology, written by Kosuke Koyama, is an expression of an Asian theology, rooted in the Thai Buddhist culture that has developed through Koyama’s missionary experience in Thailand. While the book itself discusses contextualization, the...