Category Archives: Love

Louvain Studies special issue on ‘relation, vulnerability, love’

Posted on 29 December 2018 by

by Lieve Orye Several treads of thought woven at the conference in 2016 have been rewoven into paper and digital format. A Louvain Studies issue has been published recently with contributions of several keynote speakers and respondents. Under the menu … Continue reading →

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Gathering in relation to allow new beginnings in our world

Posted on 11 September 2016 by

On the 15th, 16th and 17th of September 2016 the Anthropos ‘Con-ference‘ took place. We gathered and were gathered by a shared topic, a meshwork of threads of theological anthropology in which ‘relation, vulnerability and love’ were further explored as … Continue reading →

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Nowhere to escape if God does not make a way: a reflection out of an African refugee camp

Posted on 8 September 2016 by

By guest blogger Jacques Baeni Mwendabandu, student at Regis University through Jesuit Common Higher Education at the Margin in Dzaleka “Then they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he delivered them out of their distresses” (Psalm, 107: 6. … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary love

Posted on 6 September 2016 by

Excerpts taken from Markus Mühling’s Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology: Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational-narrative Theology (2014). Peirce’s Agapasm Whereas in Medieval times love was seen as a cosmological principle and in the theology of the Reformation … Continue reading →

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‘Joint Security Area’: glimpses of jeong

Posted on 30 August 2016 by

Excerpts taken from Wonhee Anne Joh’s Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology, Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. Jeong is a Korean way of conceiving an often complex constellation of relationality of the self with the other that is deeply … Continue reading →

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Double Perichoresis: God and human experience

Posted on 23 August 2016 by

Excerpt from Jan-Olav Henriksen, Life, Love, and Hope. God and Human Experience. Eerdmans, 2014. In the history of theology, perichoresis is a notion used to articulate the hypostatic union of the three divine persons of the Trinity, as well as … Continue reading →

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Parenting, Power, and Control

Posted on 19 August 2016 by

by Liz Gandolfo, a repost Last week I was invited to bring my two-year-old to an early childhood development class so that the students could see a toddler in action and ask me questions about his daily routine, developmental milestones, … Continue reading →

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