Towards Green Theology: Developing a Curriculum

July 6, 2008

Sunday Evening Chapel Service at Gurukul is a community event. This evening's preacher was Dr. Adella Paul, Retired Principal of Meston B. Ed. College, Chennai, now in the faculty of Gurukul in the department of Christian Ministry and the Wardern of Pandita Ramabai Women's Hostel. This was the third sermon I heard today, one was at the Annanagar Jerusalem Church by the vicar of the parish and another in the house of Dr.P.K. Joy, a neighbour and well wisher of Gurukul. The preacher for this meeting was Mr. Y. Biju, Secretary Thiruvalluvar Hostel, Gurukul. (To continue reading about the sermons please go to Sermonette: Three Sermons

The service was attended by Dr. K. Rajaratnam, our Director Emeritus. He came just after an Ecumenical Consultation in Africa. He has been so anxious to share with us his insights from the Conference. His newest vision is to challenge the Senate of Serampore College (University) to introduce a new Department of Green Theology. He said he was going to organize a consultation involving various theological seminaries to prepare a curriculum and syllabus for this new area. It is not actually a new idea. We have been discussing this area of theology from early 90s. Gurukul itself organized one of the Summer Institutes to study this subject and published a volume. What is new in the present proposition is to make it a part of the Serampore Currculum. With Dr. Rajaratnam's initiative things may move faster ion Serampore and we hope theological community in India would be able to contribute towards the global efforts to contain the growing ecocrisis. Sphere: Related Content