Editorial

Critical and Reverential Openness toward Other Religions

Gavin D’Costa is a British Roman Catholic theologian who calls Trinitarian theology a discourse that seems to resemble a doctrine of the Holy Spirit more than anything else. The Spirit’s presence not only implies the presence of the triune God, but also the presence of the Church. This is the most distinctive contribution to contemporary […]

The Perfect Anywhere for the Historically Unthinkable To Happen

Camus published The Plague in June 1947, three years after the liberation of Paris from the Nazis. It is allegory of Nazi Occupation, the brown plague, and Communism, the red plague, in the 20th Century. The Plague spreads in an Algerian city called Oran. Exiting his office one morning, our protagonist Dr Rieux pauses to […]

Holy Theatre

The most theatrical moment of the Christian faith is the Good Friday liturgy of Christ’s death on the cross with the loud cry and the dead silence. It is the sacrifice of life with the gift of death offered to God the father. The crucified is the silenced cry of God who stands as a […]

Positive Attitude to Religions

“And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:4). The glory, grace and truth came down and dwelt in the flesh. The Son entered history lived a life of contradiction and conflict and was […]

Christ Hidden in Myths and Conjectures

Natya Sastra of Bharat Muni speaks of the Natya Veda, the revelation as drama. Von Balthasar wrote almost the same in his Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory with Dramatis Personae: Man in God, the Christ. Balthasar chooses to study the poetry of Dante, St John of the Cross, Hopkins – all poets and writers of power […]

The Sacred In Every Human Being

It is impossible to deﬁne what is meant by respect for human personality. To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be deﬁned nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. Although it is the whole of him that is sacred to me, he is […]

The Right Perspective

Cardinal Henry de Lubac stated, “Man is made in such a way that he cannot give meaning to something without choosing his perspective.” The perspective is basically a stand of ocular view. St. Paul spoke of a Christians walking not with light but by faith. Faith accordingly is not an ocular perspective. Jose Saramago tells […]

Command the Power of Words

How could the task of a peace prize be anything other than to give a voice to that which serves the most fragile of human commodities: Peace? The medium of language implies nothing other than the act of granting a sounding board to the spoken word: and it is precisely this sounding board that goes […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica