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Biblical Pastoral Ministry in Asia-Pacific: Today and Tomorrow
Get PDFCecilia Chui stresses the centrality of the Word of God to the Church’s life and the biblical apostolate as an integral part of her ministry. She is convinced that persons who deeply speak to God and savor the grace of the eucharist will change the face of Asia and of the world
Cultural Diversity and Religious Pluralism: The Church's Mission in Asia
Get PDFThe author argues that cultural diversity and religious pluralism present formidable challenges to the mission of theChurch, and he situates his discussion in the context of Asia. He discusses the anthropological concept of culture and offers a critique of this concept in the light of globalization and the new communication technologies. Phan presents the Chinese Rites Controversy as a historical example of the concern for inculturation and dialogue. Finally, he highlights ways in which inculturation and interreligious dialogue can together further the mission of the Church in the multi-cultural and multi-religious context of Asia
Justice in the Biblical Tradition: A Challenge to the Christian Mission
Get PDFThe author presents the essential principles of biblical justice and applies them to the socio-political contexts of the contemporary world. Biblical justice embraces the notion of renunciation and gratuity. The prophetic mission of Christians calls for radical equality among human persons; equal ownership of the means of production enhances human dignity. In sum, the call for conversion on the personal, social, and structural levels is at the heart of the Christian mission of justice
The Burden of Globalization: Diasporic Dimensions in Peter Bacho’s Cebu and Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart
Get PDFThis paper explores the experience of diasporic mobility in contemporary Philippine-American fiction. In novels such as Cebu by Peter Bacho and America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo, issues of culture and identity are not only foregrounded but also resignified as diasporic people encounter different situations where their sexuality, religion, gender, language and economic status realign along diverse ways and affect their lives in the new country. In a global community where diasporic experiences are provisional, one is able to explore more attentively how mobility changes, and continues to change, its nature and disrupt stable constructs of identity
Sakit ng Loob, Sakit ng Labas: Pagtutumbas sa mga Neolohismong Umusbong sa Kontemporanidad ng COVID-19 Tungo sa Pag-unawa ng Kasaysayan ng Ketong sa Patolohiyang Pilipino
Get PDFLayunin ng artikulong ito na itampok ang umaalingawngaw na isyu patungkol sa pandemyang dulot ng COVID-19 sa Pilipinas. Sa pagsasapantaha, tila bagang itinatrato ng mga kontemporanyong Pilipino ang paglaganap nito bilang isang bago at kaunaunahang sakit na naranasan ng ating lipunan. Sinasalamin lamang nito ang hindi lipos na pag-aaral patungkol sa patolohiyang Pilipino. Kaya’t may tendensiya na balahuin o hindi seryosohin ng balanang Pilipino ang kinahaharap na pandemya dahil bukod sa kulang ang mga kaalaman ukol dito, posibleng hindi na napipiho ang naging hamon at tugon ng ating lipunan sa mga nagdaang sakit (na mas malala pa nga sa COVID-19). Kaya’t sinakyan ko ang mga neolohismong nauso ngayong panahon ng COVID-19 at walang dudang naipasok sa korpora ng modernong bokabularyong Pilipino. Tinitiyak na sa pamamagitan ng pagtutumbas na ito, madaling matatalisod at mauunawaan ang saysay ng mga naunang sakit sa Pilipinas. Bagamat pabaliktad ang galaw ng argumento; gagamitin ang kasalukuyan upang unawain ang nakaraan. Sa ganitong galaw, mapapatunayan na hindi naman na ganoon kabago ang mga neolohismong aking napansin. Tumuon ang pag-aaral na ito sa muling pagsilip sa sakit na Hansen’s disease o ketong na sumalot sa Pilipinas noong maagang bahagi ng dantaon 20. Bumuo ito ng labis na pagkabahala at takot sa mga Pilipino. Halos isandaang taon pagkatapos, sumibol naman sa maagang bahagi ng dantaon 21 ang COVID-19. Higit pa sa komparatibong lenteng hatid ng pag-aaral na ito, maililibra ang dalawang sakit sa kung paano masusukat ang pinagdaanang danas ng mga Pilipino. Bagamat nasa magkaibang epoka at intensidad, kapwa nakapagbigay ang dalawang sakit ng labis na takot sa lipunang Pilipino.unang ipinasa: 30 Oktubre 2020tinanggap para sa publikasyon: 4 Disyembre 202
Japanese Philosophy of Moral Education:From Watsuji Tetsurô to Mori Akira
Get PDFThis article builds on the ethics of Watsuji Tetsurô (1889–1960) through a comparison with Mori Akira’s (1915–1976) the philosophy of education to show how Watsuji’s “ethics of emptiness” can be concretely manifested in human formation. While keeping Watsuji’s ethics in view, this article examines Mori Akira’s early philosophy of moral education in the 1950s, which can be found in his philosophy book, his teacher’s manual, and his moral education student textbooks. This article begins with Watsuji’s idea of “human existence” and its similarities with Mori Akira’s idea of “human becoming,” which adds a developmental angle to Watsuji’s tensional view of the human being. It then proceeds to sketch out how ethics and education emerge from the view of human being/becoming of both thinkers. Finally, it carefully analyzes the key problem of the “dual-negative structure”: How can we be good if goodness requires that we be both individual and collective, two aspects that are negatively related to each other? After showing Watsuji’s issues, it shows Mori’s contribution, which includes philosophical theory, scientific theories drawn from developmental psychology, and praxis drawn from Mori Akira’s textbooks
Circum-Navigating The World Island, Among Enemies
Get PDFEveryday our vision travels across time and space. We see images in the media about atrocities, disruptions, crises, famine, and wars. And in each case, our sense of injustice is awakened. We feel outrage and indignation based upon our ideals and value systems, which were formed through our traditions and religions. But in this age where the power of media and information is so powerful, what we see is often manufactured to appeal to our values. While these values circulate among the images we see in cyberspace, these manipulations are rooted in certain realities: geography, natural resources, and power relationships. Our values are managed to serve the control of resources and territory. They serve the deeper reality of geography and geopolitics. How then are these ideals and values created, manipulated, and opposed across various pivots or boundaries, between East and West, between the individual and the collective? Through English geographer Sir Halford Mackinder’s concepts of “pivot” and “heartland”; German philosopher Carl Schmitt’s importance of “nomos”; and French writer Victor Segalen’s reflections on the loss of cultural diversity, we outline this priority of geography. By examining these writers, we can begin to ask if our ideals and values have any real moral or theological significance, or if they are merely effects of the competition between powers. Can ideals and values lead to real change and development, or are they merely leashes to guide us based on the aims of power
START-UP OR SCALE-UP?: An Approach through Economic Impact
Get PDFEntrepreneurship is considered to be one of the engines for transforming our world and overcoming the diverse nature of global challenges as it promotes sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, higher levels of productivity, technological innovation, full and productive employment, and decent work for all peoples (United Nations, n.d.). Over the last decade, however, this belief has been shown to be flawed given that the typical start-up is not innovative, creates only a few jobs, and generates little wealth. Policy makers are increasingly focusing as such on the so-called scale-ups, or start-ups that have experienced growth of more than 20% over the last three consecutive years. The general belief is that these companies have a big impact on the economy, especially in terms of job creation. The purpose of this paper, then, is to test whether public resources should continue to be devoted to the generation of new companies or if these should be oriented toward the promotion of high growth companies that are defined as scale-ups. To accomplish this task, we developed a multisector model based on Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) to measure this impact of start-ups and scale-ups and applied it to a regional economy (Andalusia). The results obtained suggest that while scale-ups have a greater impact on gross domestic product, productive output, and job creation compared to traditional entrepreneurial activity, this is not large enough to replace the latter