As part of the mission of Concilium: International Journal of Theology to "provide a meeting place for a global conversation inviting diverse perspectives on important theological issues," we are pleased to share our latest issue on "Pain and Solace: A Theological Investigation" edited by Geraldo Luiz De Mori, Margareta Gruber, Silvia Martínez-Cano, Cesar Kuzma, Stan Chu Ilo, Jonas Hagedorn.
We hope this issue contributes meaningfully to ongoing theological discussions and fosters deeper engagement across our international scholarly communities. We are also grateful for the editors and contributors of this issue, some of which are members of the society.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Part 1. Theological-interdisciplinary Reading of Pain and Solace
Pains and Suffering – When Compassion and Consolation get Serious
JEAN-PIERRE WILS
Pain and Consolation in the Old Testament
RIVALDAVE PAZ TORQUATO
Pain and Consolation from the Perspective of John
ESTELA ALDAVE MEDRANO
Pain and Suffering: Finding Solace in a Vital Church
STAN CHU ILO
Part 2. Religious practices
Pain can bring Healing
CLEMENS SEDMAK
To Live “in Favour of the Human Being” (Saint Irenaeus AH IV 8:2)
ROSA RUIZ ARAGONESES
Pain and Consolation in Ignatian Spirituality
EDUARD LÓPEZ HORTELANO
Part 3. Pain and Solace from an Ethical-pastoral Perspective ‘Injustice that cries out to Heaven.’
Suffering – Complaint – Hope in existential ethical Perspective
HANS-JOACHIM HÖHN
To Defeat Pain. The Lightness of the Posthumanist Dream
JAVIER DE LA TORRE
Pain and Consolation
MARTA LÓPEZ ALONSO
Talamak na Pananakit: Exploring the Connections Between Chronic Pain, Environmental Activism, and Inspiring Stories of Solidarity
JEANE C. PERACULLO
Accompanying Victims Through Art. A Strategy for Reconstructing Connections
DAFNE AÍDA ZAPATA PRATTO
Theological Forum
Dicastery of Culture and Education’s International Congress on The Future of Theology: Legacy and Imagination’
MAEVE LOUISE HEANEY
Read the Editorial here.
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