Samuel Rayan SJ
Samuel Rayan SJ
Professor (emeritus) of Systematic Theology
Joined the Faculty in June 1972
Vidyajyoti College of Theology
4-A, Raj Niwas Marg
Delhi 110054
India.
Telephone: +91-11-23943556, 23947609
Academic Qualifications
- L.Ph. (1946)
- B.A. in Malayalam (1950)
- D.Th. in Systematic Theology, Gregorian University, Rome (1960)
Subjects Taught At Vidyajyoti
- Ecclesiology
- Grace
- Eschatology
Teaching Experience at Other Faculties
- Christology; Grace (Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune)
- Indian Religions: The Bhagavad G?ta (Aarhun Universitet, Denmark)
Areas of Special Interest
- The Indian insight, “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, and its religious, social and economic implications and demands
- The egalitarian vision of socio-economic and religious community life projected in the New Testament
- The equality of women and men in church and society
- `Sabbath is for man’: the dignity and well-being of persons and communities as the goal, meaning and norm of all projects and endeavours; economics, politics, research, religion and all else “as if people mattered”
- The mystery of suffering
- `He who loves his passed from death to life’: love as the decisive power and principle of life, transformation and resurrection, Jn 3:14
Books
- The Holy Spirit: Heart of the Gospel and Christian Hope. New York: Orbis Books, 1978. The book was republished by Chapman, London, 1979, under the title ‘Breath of Fire.’ Translations of the book appeared under the titles Wind und Fur (Dutch, 1990); El Spiritu Santo: Corazon del Evangelio y Esperanza Christiana. (Spanish, 1990). The Indian edition is titled Come, Holy Spirit. Delhi: Media House, 1998
- The Anger of God. Bombay: Build Publications, 1981
- Renew the Face of the Earth. Delhi: Media House, 1998
- In Christ the Power of Women, Chennai: Christian Women’s’ Association
Articles
- Some 300 of them on socio-religious themes, written in Malayalam and/or in English, and published since 1946 in periodicals and books published in India or abroad. A list of articles will be posted soon.
Seminars
- Has been giving seminars, conferences and retreats to groups of priests, seminarians, religious university students, during summer months in particular, in many centres all over India, and other South Asian countries and in all the lands of East Asia including the pacific Islands of Papua, New Guinea, and Hawaii as well as in most parts of USA and Canada; in Latin America’s Mexico, Brazil and Peru and in the University of Bethlehem in Israel and most parts of Europe, including Ireland, Scandinavia and Soviet Russia, and the African countries, Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. Some of these travels and conferences had to do with WCC Assemblies, or meetings of the Commission on Faith and Order of the same WCC, or general sessions of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.