Editorial Introduction
In this inaugural issue of Budyong, SATMI offers to the discursive theological table these various reflections as an attempt to grasp Divine sense and meaning via a way of doing theology that take serious consideration of contemporary human experience. These institutions, theological and missiological offer not a monolithic but a pluriform articulation of the encounters with that man-God from Nazareth.
The first four articles may be considered as a plea for contextual fidelity to human experience in the doing of theology. “No experience of the divine occurs in a vacuum” as God meets humanity and humanity meets God in all of the latter’s situatedness, historicity, and temporality – in the ‘here and now’ of concrete men, women, and children who navigate this troubled and troubling world.
All these theological and missiological narratives in their variegated forms are truly budyong: wind-blown, spirit-inspired murmurings to herald and celebrate the Divine presence in us. In other words, they are diverse and plural explorations that God, only the living God is able to incarnate in the world, which in turn calls us to be missionaries enacting the Divine mission: to be in this world…but not of this world.
Fr. Victorino Cueto, CSsR, PhD
- Incarnating the Good News in the Multilingual and Multicultural Context of Vietnam – Ferderiz Cantiller, CSsR
- When the Chinese Met Jesus – Terence Wee
- Symbolic Gift-Exchange as Church Inculturative Mission – Danilo S. Agustin, Jr.
- Washing of the Feet: A Proposed Missiological Paradigm in Doing Mission – Niño Memorial, SM
- The Sacramental Potential of Music: Musical Experience – Rico John Bilangel, CSsR
- Revelation in Movies: Theology of Film in Thailand – Prud Thipthong, CSsR