Rethinking Asian Christianities
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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About the event:
Christianity was as vibrant in the East as it was in the West during the first centuries
of the Christian era, quite the opposite of what Eurocentric historiographies would
have us believe. In his talk, Fr. Pilario will recover this way of looking at Christianity
in Asia. He will also show Asian Christianity's present situation: its co-presence
among ancient religions, its minority status, and the situation of poverty and violence
around it, as well as other urgent tasks and challenges in our century. After the
presentation will be a Q & A session.
About the speaker
Rev. Daniel Franklin Pilario, C.M., Ph.D., S.T.D., is a member of the Congregation
of the Mission (Vincentians) in the Philippines. He is a professor at St. Vincent
School of Theology, Adamson University in Quezon City, Philippines. He comes from
Hagdan, Oslob, Cebu. His book Back to the Rough Grounds of Praxis: Exploring Theological
Method with Pierre Bourdieu (Leuven, 2005) was awarded the Jan en Marie Huyse Prijs
of the Leuven Academic Foundation as the best research in the humanities in 2003.
He has also written After the End: Reflections of the Happy Theologian in and on the
Rough Grounds (2014). He edited or co-edited several anthologies, the most recent
of which are The Ambivalence of Sacrifice (2013); Christian Orthodoxy (2014); Globalization
and the Church of the Poor (2015); Philippine Local Churches after the Spanish Regime
(2015); Faith in Action: Catholic Social Teaching on the Ground (2015); Second Plenary
Council of the Philippines: Quo Vadis? (2015); Theology and Power: International Perspectives
(2016); Suffering and God (2016); Minorities (2017); Theology, Conflict and Peacebuilding
(2018); Asian Christianities (2018); and Signs of Hope in Muslim-Christian Relations
(2020).
Fr. Pilario belongs to the editorial boards of several philosophical and theological journals, among which are Hapág: Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Sian Christian Review, Concilium: International Journal of Theology, Institute of Spirituality in Asia, PHAVISMINDA, and International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. He has published extensively in national and international academic journals. His field of research covers fundamental theology, cultural theories and inculturation, liberation theology, theological anthropology, methods of theological research, political-social theory, theology and ecology, Catholic social teaching, and justice and human rights.
He is a former president and founding member of the DAKATEO (Damdaming Katoliko sa Teolohiya - Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines). He is a professorial lecturer at various universities and seminaries in the country, and he regularly ministers at a garbage dumpsite parish in Payatas, Quezon City, on weekends.
About the Archbishop John J. Myers Lecture Series:
The Archbishop Myers Lecture Series is a tribute to His Grace, The Most Reverend John
J. Myers, fifth Archbishop of Newark, for his faithful and steadfast promotion of
Seton Hall University's Catholic mission and the continued leadership and guidance
he gave to the University. This series was inaugurated on the occasions of the Apostolic
Blessing of the Holy Father Pope Francis and the first anniversary of the Department
of Catholic Studies.
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