"Post" Phenomenal Arcades

Mission in the postmodern world

In the postmodern world, in order to become an effective missionary Church has to move from a ‘Preaching Church’ to a ‘Being Church.’ Given the mission is destined towards the reign of God, ‘what the Church is’ is more important than ‘what the Church says.’ Mission cannot be reduced merely to an activity of the […]

One billionaire, every two days. Where are the others?

Fr Justine Kaipranpadan ‘If you want to make a thing real, make it local,’ said G.K. Chesterton. Last year, one billionaire was created every two days. This is the biggest increase in the number of billionaires in history. Where are others? Let us look on inequality and on its relation to spirituality. Culture is what […]

Literature of absurdity

The literature of absurdity denotes mainly a number of works in drama and prose fiction which give the message that human condition is essentially absurd. Though literature of absurdity became famous only during the postmodern era with the works of French authors like Eugène Ionesco (1909 – 1994) and Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989) this […]

Neutralizing the power of discourses

One of the claims of postmodern philosophers is that the discourses are used by the powerful to impose a special type of identity on the people. The institutions demand that the adepts attached to them constitute their identity in such a way that they get fit in to the mental frame of the establishment. The […]

Everyday Calling

Dr Laly Mathew Standing in reverence at the tomb of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, I was musing with awe and devotion on her unique calling to serve the Lord through serving men. Adjacent to the tomb, in the museum in honour of the Saint of the Destitute, amidst the handwritten pages displayed from her diary […]

Let the boarders fade away

Justine Kaipranpadan “Every time we end up fading away, Despite our cries, Despite our papers, Despite being human And having nothing to our names. Done, we threw our humanity away. The moment we saw the grass on the other side” (We are human too…Kae Finch). As I attended the funeral of Fr Bijo CMI who […]

Postmodern attack on Science

One of the striking features of postmodern thought is to attack the objective claims of science. The scientists generally think of themselves as contributing to the construction of meaningful narratives regarding the realities in the world. Not merely the scientists themselves, the common people also consider the scientists as those who really know how the […]

Maintenance of violence through masked truths

The Indian sub-continent is a laboratory of communalist ideology (immoderate attachment to one’s own community at the expense of the different interests of other communities) given that it is a composite of diverse identity-conscious communities that are formed on the basis of religion, caste, jati, race, language, culture, etc. People group together behind these labels […]

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