Ateneo de Manila University: Journals Online
Not a member yet
2140 research outputs found
Sort by
Toward a Filipino Christology
Get PDFCurrent research on the Historical Jesus challenges Filipino Christology to do a “Christology from Below”—emphasizing the struggles and humanity of Jesus in first century Palestine as an appropriate starting point for a meaningful and relevant Filipino Christology today. Are our current Jesus images mere projections of our deep desire to fashion him in our own image? Or are they grounded on real, historical facets of his life? Any re-appropriation of the memory of the Jesus of history must, for the most part, become honest appropriations of the spirit of Jesus’ historical life and message, which focused on realizing the Kingdom of God, particularly on behalf of the worlds’ poor and marginalized
A Critique of Gender Ideology
Get PDFIt is common nowadays to meet young people who are confusedabout their gender identity. To feel like the other gender is verymuch in fashion; it is the new trending topic. In the UnitedKingdom, for instance, the Gender Identity Development Servicereported that it received 1,986 referrals of children in 2016/2017, upfrom 94 referrals in 2009/2010, making for a relative increase of2,000%. In Canada, a parent was allowed to register her/his child’ssex as “U” (probably for unspecified) so that the child will have thefreedom to choose its own gender later on. And in the Philippines,10% of males aged 18–25 years old now identify with the oppositegender. How are we to react to this? How are we to discern the “signsof the times” (see Mt. 16:3) here
Lazaro Francisco: The Making of a National Artist
Get PDFThis essay situates the novels of Lazaro Francisco against the concrete specificities of our history as a nation, from the American colonial regime to the postwar period. The study shows how deeply Francisco understood the concept of nationhood even as he constructed experiences of socio-economic bondage and a disastrous war that resonated with his Liwayway readers
Packing Death in Australian Literature
Get PDFIn this article, the author identifies critical connections between the transformation of food in the last two hundred thirty years and arguments by animal studies, indigenous studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and environmental history scholars. She does that through a reading of two works of Australian literature: Merlinda Bobis’s cli-fi novel Locust Girl and Evie Wyld’s post-pastoral fiction All the Birds Singing. Bobis’s novel raises questions about the given transformation as it directly relates to the birth of the commercial kangaroo-meat industry, depletion of arable land as a direct consequence of the overuse of it for introduced species of animals reductively called livestock, and obliteration of extensive grain belts in Australia. Wyld’s novel addresses the given transformation in an implicit critique of Australia’s sheep industry and, by implication, Australia’s cattle industry. Both constitute Australian pastoral, which has profoundly transformed food in Australia and eradicated interspecies balances thousands of years old. The novels represent the notice, as limited as that is, in contemporary Australian literature of the radical transformation of food since the late eighteenth century. Illustrating her argument by referring to the two novels, the author argues that literary food studies must reflect greater engagement with ongoing interspecies abuses that define food production. Difficult as those injustices are to confront, they point to the gross moral and material failings in the transformation of food since the late eighteenth century
Discovering the Profound Wisdom of Pope Paul VI’s Evangelii Nuntiandi
Get PDFSt. Pope Paul VI (1963-1978), canonized forty years after his death on October 14, 2018, will always be remembered as a modern missionary pope. He made missionary journeys to all continents and authored Evangelii Nuntiandi (EN), which became the magna carta for Catholic evangelization in the last quarter of Christianity’s second millennium and without a doubt one of the most important ecclesial documents of the post-Vatican II era. It presents a concise, inspiring, and programmatic challenge for the Church to engage enthusiastically in her God-given mission to preach the Gospel to the contemporary world—to living peoples, with their aspirations and anxieties, their cultures and religions, their hopes and conflicts. EN boldly addresses the topic of evangelization in the modern world.
