« Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s First Essay “Cosmic Life” and his Prayer to the Cosmic Christ » by Ursula King EnglishDeutschItalianoPortuguêsFrançaisEspañol中國人 Theology and LiteratureTheology und LiteraturTeologia e letteraturaTeologia e literaturaThéologie et littératureTeología y literatura神學和文學 The French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was an eminent geologist and palaeontologist, well known for his excavations in China andRead More

« Theology and Literature in African Christian Faith: Hearers of the Word in Africa » by Stan Chu Ilo EnglishDeutschItalianoPortuguêsFrançaisEspañol中國人 Theology and LiteratureTheology und LiteraturTeologia e letteraturaTeologia e literaturaThéologie et littératureTeología y literatura神學和文學 Introduction A story is told about a missionary who went to a remote area in Tanzania to proclaim the Gospel among theRead More

« Doing Theology with Literatures: An Asian Attempt » by Po-Ho Huang EnglishDeutschItalianoPortuguêsFrançaisEspañol中國人 Theology and LiteratureTheology und LiteraturTeologia e letteraturaTeologia e literaturaThéologie et littératureTeología y literatura神學和文學 1. Literature and Religions There is a slogan among the literary community in Confucius influenced countries saying that “literature and history are not separation” (文史不分家 – Wen shih puRead More

« Poetics of Survival » by Mayra Rivera EnglishDeutschItalianoPortuguêsFrançaisEspañol中國人 Theology and LiteratureTheology und LiteraturTeologia e letteraturaTeologia e literaturaThéologie et littératureTeología y literatura神學和文學 In her essay, “Create Dangerously,” Edwidge Danticat recounts the public execution of two young men — Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin — for their participation in a guerrilla war to topple the DouvalierRead More

« Dante’s Theology » by Vittorio Montemaggi EnglishDeutschItalianoPortuguêsFrançaisEspañol中國人 Theology and LiteratureTheology und LiteraturTeologia e letteraturaTeologia e literaturaThéologie et littératureTeología y literatura神學和文學 Dante’s theology is defined by the realization that God is love. At the beginning of the Commedia, Dante tells us that it is from divine love – “l’amor divino” – that creation issues (Inferno 1.39–40), andRead More

« Theology in the Way we live now: a Theopoetics of Life Writing » by Heather Walton EnglishDeutschItalianoPortuguêsFrançaisEspañol中國人 Theology and LiteratureTheology und LiteraturTeologia e letteraturaTeologia e literaturaThéologie et littératureTeología y literatura神學和文學 ‘You seem to be still in pain and somehow angry,’ said the nice young man who had travelled all the way from his UniversityRead More

Concilium 2017-5. Theology and Literature Edited by: Maria Clara Bingemer, Solange Lefebvre, Erik Borgman, Mile Babić Full translations of this edition are available in the following languages:English: Literature and TheologyEspañol: Teología y literaturaDeutsch: Theologie und LiteraturItaliano: Letteratura, poesia e teologiaPortuguês: Teologia e literatura Editorial Ha que reconhecer que o discurso da “ teopoética” em geralRead More

Thanks to the kindness of Prof. M.-T. Wacker, we can make available the indexes of the German edition, from 1965 to 2012. You can also download them as a single *zip file on our download page.Read More

Eliseo Mercado – « A New Wind Blowing Shaping New Platforms for Interreligious Dialogue » This text is a part of the issue:English: Asian ChristianitiesDeutsch: Asiatischen ChristentümerItaliano: Cristianesimi asiaticiPortuguês: Cristiandades asiáticasFrançais: Christianismes asiatiquesEspañol: Cristianismos asiáticos中國人: 亞洲基督教 We are living in interesting times, to say the least.  There are several writings on the wall and we needRead More

Ramon Echica – « To prophesy or not to prophesy. Is it the question? » This text is a part of the issue:English: Asian ChristianitiesDeutsch: Asiatischen ChristentümerItaliano: Cristianesimi asiaticiPortuguês: Cristiandades asiáticasFrançais: Christianismes asiatiquesEspañol: Cristianismos asiáticos中國人: 亞洲基督教 In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, prophets often came out in the context of turbulent political periods to denounce the abusesRead More