The Rev. Dr. R. Sahayadhas delivered his professorial lecture titled "A Theologians Wrestling with Anger and its Trajectories in shaping theology" in UTC yesterday at 4:30 P.M. in the Tagore Hall. The lecture was chaired by the Dean of the Masters Division, Rev. Dr. K. Jesurathnam and introductory remarks were made by the dean of the Doctoral Division, Dr. Nalini Arles. Dr. Sahadhas started by thanking his teachers Dr. O.V. Jathanna, Dr Sathianathan Clarke, Dr. Jayakiran Sebastian, Dr. Christopher Doraisingh, his faculty colleagues, principal, all UTC staff and wife Usha and son Benil.
Dr. Sahayadhas in his lecture talked about the role of anger in our lives and tried to bring out the theology of anger and how it can be channelised to be used by all communities who face oppression. He introduced the participants in the lecture to how anger was seen over the centuries. He looked at anger from the perspective of church fathers, Martin Luther and Buddha.
He then tried to contextualize it by talking of the experience of the Arunthathiyars. He spoke of how they are angry at being oppressed and relegated to the sidelines. But this anger according to Dr. Sahayadhas has taken a good direction and has become the anger of hope rather than the anger of despair. He reminded those present that theology is very ritualistic in India and we have to come out of this.
Those present congratulated Dr. Sahayadhas and his family.
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| Rev. Dr. R. Sahayadhas, his wife Usha and their son Benil |
3 comments:
Well done Professor Sahayadhas. I like the topic you had tackled. It is indeed an important theme that religious communities must seriously reflect on to move forward in authentic spirituality. I wonder how I could get a copy of your text. Will that be available online? My best wishes to you and yours. Henry Victor
Please send your e mail id to bangaloreutc@gmail.com Will forward it to Dr. Sahayadhas and he will send you the paper.
I am also attracted by the title and i hope that it would help my thesis writing.
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