Felix Wilfred

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Felix Wilfred (born February 21, 1948 in Tamil Nadu , India ) is a Roman Catholic liberation theologian .

Career

Wilfred was born in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and studied in Italy and France. He received his doctorate and was visiting professor in Frankfurt am Main (1996–1997), Münster and Nijmegen , at the Ateneo de Manila and at Boston College .

From 1977 to 1993 he taught at the St. Paul Seminary in Tiruchirappalli . From 1993 until his retirement in 2008 he was Professor in the Department of Christian Studies at the University of Madras in Chennai . He was also a member of the International Theological Commission , which at the time was chaired by Joseph Ratzinger . In 2007 Wilfred became president of the editorial board of the international theological journal Concilium . The Concilium office was relocated from Nijmegen to Madras accordingly.

Wilfred is currently director of the Asian Center of Cross-Cultural Studies (ACCS), which he founded himself. He is visiting professor at the East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI) in Manila and a member of the Statutory Ethical Committee of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). In 2011 he took up a visiting professorship at Trinity College (Dublin) .

Felix Wilfred worked on the Lexicon for Theology and Church . His main research interests are intercultural theology and theologies of the Third World, as well as the religious pluralism of Asia.

Fonts (selection)

  • as Ed .: Leave the temple. Antyodaya - Indian way to liberation. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-451-21216-1 ( Theology of the Third World. Volume 11).
  • with MM Thomas : History of theology of the Third World: India. Edited by Theo Sundermeier . Translated from the English by Anneliese Gensichen. Kaiser, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-459-01917-4 ( Kaiser pocket books. Volume 108).
  • On the banks of the Ganges. Theology in the Indian Context. IKO - publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-88939-598-8 ( Theologie intercultural. Volume 11).
  • Theology from the Edge of Society. An Indian vision. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-451-29162-2 ( Theology of the Third World. Volume 35).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://accschennai.com/CV-Felix-Wilfred-February-2009.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / accschennai.com  
  2. ↑ a b Felix Wilfred, long-time partner of the MWI, becomes President of Concilium ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Missio Institute of Missiology (MWI). Retrieved February 13, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mwi-aachen.org
  3. ↑ a b Gladys Ganiel: Prof. Felix Wilfred joins Trinity College Dublin in Spring 2011 . Irish School of Ecumenics website . Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  4. ^ A b Felix Wilfred on the website of the University of Madras . Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  5. ↑ Homepage of the ACCS. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Wilfred, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic Liberation Theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tamil Nadu , India