Editorial

The Land Ethic

“When god-like Odysseus returned from the wars in Troy, he hanged all on one rope a dozen slave-girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehaviour during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The girls were property. The disposal of property was then, as now, a matter of expediency, not of right […]

God is My Suffering

“My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?” This leads us to the question of “Why?” It is not the cry of Greek tragic figures lost in the despair of fate; it is a cry of the absence of God in the world, which is echoed by every man. God’s absence, the absence of […]

The Place is the Word

We all have become resident aliens in today’s consumer culture. Everyone is getting uprooted from their own places. Through continuous shifting of places, life has literally become an exodus. Science and technology have overcome the limits of space and time. We can also travel through time. Tacitus, in his historical account, speaks of ‘hostile hatred […]

One among Many Religions?

There are two important questions to be posed on Christianity; is it a religion, if it is, is it a religion among other religions? There are many theologians who think of religionless Christianity. Bonhoeffer‘s concept of religion as it emerges from his letters from prison is that religion is passing away. Can faith ever escape […]

The Paganization of Israel and Prophets’ Counter-imagination

The eminent Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann notes the royal consciousness at work in the kingdom of David and Solomon is “a self-serving achievement with its sole purpose the self-securing of king and dynasty.” He quotes Mendenhall, who described it as ‘the paganization of Israel:” it involved “a steady abandonment of the radicalism of the […]

The Risks of Racist Religiosity

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote a book called “Black sun Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity.” The religious and mythic elements of German National Socialism often resemble a cult in power. The pageantry of the Nazi rallies and their quasi-liturgical nature were matched by the extraordinary fervour of the huge crowds in attendance. Most […]

The Poet in Man

G.K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy: “I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from God. But now I really was happy, for I had learnt that man is a monstrosity. I had been right in feeling all things as odd, for I […]

Not Ideology but Identity

The nature of global politics is shifting to an identity axis and away from the economic left-right axis of the 20th century that was defined largely by ideology. Did Jesus Christ have a purse? The global politics of the 20th century was poetically expressed by Eco beautifully. Today such questions more seem to capture. Religion […]

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

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica