Budyong: Volume 9 – 2025-2026

EDITIORIAL INTRODUCTION HOPE FROM BELOW: LIVED THEOLOGIES OF HOPE IN THE FACE OF CRISES AND SOCIAL EVILS  In our time, both in the Philippines and across the globe, the human family stands at a crossroads marked by uncertainty, suffering, and deep longing. Ongoing...

Budyong: Volume 8 – 2024-2025

EDITIORIAL INTRODUCTION INDIGENIZING SYNODALITY                     In Luke’s Gospel, the Risen Lord meets two of his disciples on their way to the village of Emmaus. Jesus asks them, “What are you discussing as you walk along the way?” (cf. Luke...
Budyong: Volume 7 – 2023-2024

Budyong: Volume 7 – 2023-2024

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION | Fr. Neil Badillo, OFM, S.Th.D  Theological Themes in ‘Post-Pandemic Times’               Although the current issue of Budyong situates this academic undertaking in ‘post-pandemic times’, I am uncertain about the accuracy of this claim. It...

Budyong: Volume 7 – 2023-2024

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION                   Theological Themes in ‘Post-Pandemic Times’               Although the current issue of Budyong situates this academic undertaking in ‘post-pandemic times’, I am uncertain about the accuracy of this claim. It seems overly...

Budyong: Volume 6, Number 1 – 2022 

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Rationality and Relationality         How can Filipino Christological consciousness become liberating? What are the lessons of the Philippines’ 5th centenary celebration for the Church’s post-Covid-19 mission? Does the postmodern appropriation...

Budyong: Volume 5, Number 1 – 2021

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION             2020: What a year for St. Alphonsus Theological Mission Institute (SATMI)! Just like the entire Philippine Church, we, at SATMI, were excited to celebrate the 5th centenary of the coming of Christianity in our country. We then...