ADAMSON UNIVERSITY, SVST TO CO-HOST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The St. Vincent School of Theology (SVST) in Tandang Sora, Quezon City and Adamson University will be co-hosting the International Concilium Conference 2017 from June 29 to July 1, 2017 at the Adamson University Theater. The theme of the conference is “Asian Christianities: (Post) colonial Encounters.”

Leading the ranks of 26 internationally acclaimed theologians invited as plenary speakers are the two keynote speakers, namely, His Eminence Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle, DD, Archbishop of Manila, and Felix Wilfred, president of Concilium. Expected to attend are 600 participants composed of theologians, priests and nuns, seminarians, pastoral workers, lay leaders, scholars, professors and students.

Concilium is one of the leading international theological journals that encourages contextual reflections on the signs of the times in the spirit of Vatican II. It was founded in 1965 and is published five times a year.

Meritorious papers presented at the international conference would be considered for publication in the journal.

By holding the international conference for the first time in Asia, Concilium aims to put forward studies on histories, epistemologies, and theologies that shaped Christianity in the Asian context. This involves researches on Asian Christianity and its responses to colonialism and postcolonialism.

The international conference will also be bringing to the conversation table milestones in Asian Christianity, such as the 500th anniversary of the Philippine encounter with the Christian West in 2021, the 45th year of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference, and the 85th foundation anniversary of Adamson University, both in 2017. As such, Asian theologians and intellectuals will be at the forefront of conversations with Concilium’s Board of Editors, in an effort to contextualize and further develop discours- es on Asian Christianity.

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation this 2017 will also bring to the table Concilium theologians -- both Catholics and Protestants -- to reflect on the same theme in an ecumenical spirit.

The Catholic Biblical Association of the Philippines (CBAP) and Damdaming Katoliko sa Teolohiya (DAKATEO)- Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines are collaborators for the conference. The St. Vincent School of Theology is administratively linked with the Graduate School of Adamson University, which is located at 900 San Marcelino St., Ermita, Manila.

For more details, interested parties may contact the Secretariat at (02) 930-9392, through e-mail at concilium17manila@gmail.com, or access the conference website at http://www.svst.edu.ph/concilium-2017-manila1.html and the facebook account www.facebook.com/concilium2017manila/.