Theology-Christopher

Introduction: Pastoro-praxis approach to healing is a paradigm shift in the thought process to understand, practice and promote healing in our life (faith) journey as fellow humans. This presentation is not attempting to initiate an academic discourse on the topic healing but facilitating us to look the healing spiritually, ministerially and diaconally with practical theological lenses. This presentation is aiming to de-construct the popular views of the epistemologists, post-modernists and post-foundationalists on healing rather approaching through the socio-theological constructionalism where people and contexts are at the centre in this discourse. Four Contexts: Commonly, the academic fraternity approaches the issues to be read through four contextual views namely (i) Post-modern or Liberal View, (ii) Traditional / Cultural View, (iii) Classical / Historical View and (iv) Charismatic / Fundamentalists' View. Theology of Mission Bottom Line for Mis...

The Manger narration, a soft, melodious folk piece, gives an impression of an age-old historical setting in palace with king’s costumes with classical literary scenario. The genre of the manger narration was silent fusion, the rhythm was mild to put all asleep, the lyrics are to sooth the hearts to have hope for the best in their future, and that is the theology of manger. Is it a great and interesting story to the Gen Y (People born after mid 90s)? But the reality was different indeed! On the one hand, a brooding threnody of the citizens of Judea over the assassinations of their own children, and on the other, the rulers had marathon of meetings with the religious leaders and diplomats in order to subdue the unknown, newly born king for Judea. This insecure delusion of the empire has gone to the level of erasing a generation from their own land history. In this story, the mere birth of a migrant individual created a political trauma for the rulers. The land of Judea,...

                                           Bible Study on 1    Kings 10   ‘Restlessness and coming to a common place and demanding justice has become common in our society today. On the one hand, the elite and upper (middle) class Indians fear for democracy and governance, while on the other hand, poor and grass-roots communities fear for their future, life and livelihood. Different encounters such as ‘lokpal’ verses, ‘Jan-lokpal’, fundamentalist verses, secularist ideologies and grass-roots communities and the State(s) are found  common today.  These encounters have given rise to debates from different perspectives: some consider these encounters to be democratic, while some others consider them to be anti-administration and anti-state. The grass-roots expressions of ‘satyagraha’ are usually regarded as being anti-state and anti-development: t...

                             (Ilavarasan's Grave in Natham Colony) Grave a language legend… historical symbol… memory… speech… Call… for what… For centuries, India has been known for the richness of her culture, tradition and heritage, which even the global communities have always recognized. But today, the recent incidents, particularly the Delhi rape case, the Dharmapuri and Marakkanam incidents make us to put our head down. Adding on to the shame, now, the graveyard business, created and developed by the hate campaigners, in order to bury the dead-body of the victims of hate campaigns and moral policing, appears to be gaining considerable momentum.  Paradoxically, it is the same ‘casteists and custodians of the morality’ who had victimized certain individuals and communities, who have erected those graves in the name of the victims.  While, for many among us it h...