Dear Friends,
Greetings in the name of LIFT (Leuven-Indian Forum for Theology) which was formed on 31st March, 2009. We had very enthusiastic start-off to the Forum. While all those participated in the inaugural meeting were very positive of such a Forum, even those who were absent showed their interest by enquiring about the inaugural meeting. I am happy to furnish here below some of important resolutions taken regarding the forum in its inaugural meeting.
§ The inaugural meeting was well-attended. While a few expressed their inability to attend, others chose to be absent unacknowledged. Here is the list of those who attended: Augustine, Baiju, Bosco, James, Jeeva, Joji, Josin, Martin, Raja, Sahayadas, Saji, Simplicio.
§ The Forum will meet once a month, preferably in Louis Janssens Hall of the Holy Spirit College. While the date of each meeting will be decided at its previous meeting, the time of the meeting is proposed to be 8-10 p.m.
§ It was proposed to maintain a kind of flexibility in the mode of the monthly meetings. So, no fixed format was decided, and the format of each following meeting will be planned at its previous meeting. Some proposed activities of these meetings are: presentations and discussions on some theological issues related to India, update on Indian theological publications, sharing thoughts on each other’s research, etc.
§ While the forum will principally consist of the Indian pre-doctoral and doctoral students of theology at our university, the forum is open to other Indian students, those of masters’ level, as well as those doing studies at other faculties.
§ Martin, Sahayadas and Simplicio volunteered to coordinate creation of a bibliographical database of the Indian theological resources, which will be made available to all in the course of time. (Our thanks to Martin, Sahayadas and Simplicio!). They already had their first meeting to plan the modalities of the creation of the database, and they seem to have exciting ideas. They want to seek the help of those of us who are willing to help in the collection of the data. If you are willing to help, please contact one of them:
§ I (Joji) have been asked to coordinate the forum for this academic year. Bosco has volunteered to record the proceedings of the future meetings. And he will post them on the blog after each meeting. (Our thanks to Bosco!)
§ The next meeting will take place on 30th April, 2009, in the Louis Jannsen’s Hall of the Holy Spirit College. Augustine Kallely will be presenting a paper, which will be followed by a lengthy discussion on it. More information on the theme of Augustine’s paper will be disbursed to you later. (Our thanks to Augustine!). … Joji will supply chai at this meeting!!! (My good neighbour, James, has assured me his help… expect a good chai then !!!)
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have attended the inaugural meeting, which was very fruitful. We hope to see all those who were unable to attend the first meeting, at our next meeting on 30th April. We encourage you all to participate in our meetings; we promise a lot of lively and enriching discussions of theological issues related to our dear India.
PLEASE NOTE:
§ I have created a special email id for the forum: lift.leuven@gmail.com. All communications regarding the forum will reach you from this email id from now on. I advise you to please add the email id to your contact list so that the mails from the forum will not go into the junk box, and please use this email id to communicate with the forum.
§ I have created a blog for LIFT:
Even if it needs to be still developed further, all the info about LIFT will be posted on this blog. You are most welcome to leave your comments at this blog. While you can leave your comments/responses to the postings on this blog, you will not be able to post any new posts yourself. If you have any suggestion for new posts, please send a mail to me at: lift.leuven@gmail.com
See you on 30th April.
Warmly Welcome!
Joji
(For LIFT: Leuven-Indian Forum for Theology)
Dear Friends, have come out well.
ReplyDeleteI hope we will be enriched by this forum. Let us introduce this to all.
Jeeva