NEED FOR A HOLISTIC EDUCATION FOR RELIGIOUS WOMEN

Authors

  • Jacob Parappally MSFS Tejas Vidya Peetha

Keywords:

Education in Mission, Empowerment, Holistic Education, Kingdom Values, Periculoso, Patriarchal Mind-set, Women Religious

Abstract

To actualize the human, Christic and the specific way of living Christian life meaningfully and effectively, a holistic education is imperative. However, the education given and received, at present, is unfortunately not holistic. The education of the Religious women suffers still more because of the prevalent patriarchal society which does not promote the education of women as it is found a threat to the system. The lack of a holistic education of women, and especially religious women, prevents their unfolding of their vocation as humans as well as the effective actualization of the mission flowing from their vocation as religious. A paradigm-shift from a formation for mission to a formation in mission or education in mission is required to recapture the spirit and courage of the founders of the congregations and to live the gospel values. It is to be done through a life of total commitment to Christ lived in a community of mature and unfolded humans that the religious women are enabled to respond to the needs of the mission.

Author Biography

Jacob Parappally MSFS, Tejas Vidya Peetha

Prof. Dr Jacob Parappally, MSFS holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He taught systematic theology at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune and served as the dean of the faculty of theology. He was the President of the Indian Theological Association and the Rector of Tejas Vidya Peetha, Bangalore. At present he is the chief editor of the Journal of Indian Theology. Email: parappally@gmail.com.

References

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Isaac Padinjarekuttu, Consecrated Life through Two Millenia, Mumbai: Pauline Publications, 2008, 182.

Elizabeth M. Makowski, Canon Law and Cloistered Women: Periculoso and Its Commentators, 1298-1545, Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1997.

Address of Pope Francis to the International Union of Superiors General Thursday, 12 May 2016. https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/ 2016/may/documents/papa-francesco_20160512_uisg.html.

A. Dulles, Models of the Church, New York: Image Books/Doubleday. 2014.

Published

2018-03-31

How to Cite

Parappally MSFS, J. (2018). NEED FOR A HOLISTIC EDUCATION FOR RELIGIOUS WOMEN. Asian Horizons, 12(01), 117–128. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2162