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22: 314:“I write with responsibility. There can be defects or errors in my work. I am not infallible. Responsible thinkers and scholars the world over could judge and sift my work. In public discussions we can help each other and learn from one another. That is how truth grows in history: through a social process, and not through secret censorship”. 291:
Ever critical of systems, structures and institutions, Kappen felt his search was leading him beyond denominational and religious affiliations as well as political ideology. In Kappen's view, No political, religious or economic system was absolute, but were all to be valued only insofar as they serve
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became the dialectical poles of Kappen's thought and life, in view of liberating the human person from hidden oppressive psychological and social forces. Healing and wholeness are found in the person of
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His theological stances evoked strong criticism in traditional circles of the Church. In 1972 Kappen moved out of Jesuit large institutions and started living among the poor wherever he was posted: in
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Kappen began experiencing heart problems in the 1980s. He first quit smoking, then began slowing his intellectual pursuits. Nonetheless, he was particularly incensed by the bombing of Iraq in the
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as well. Despite regular attempts to bring him back into regular Jesuit community life, his superiors ultimately consented to let him adopt a lifestyle more conducive to his creative writing. His
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the people. Thus, he felt that party and their ideologies, even of religious ones, could act as spiritual prisons, which he did not want to be confined in, while Jesus offered freedom.
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in India. This led him to a study of the liberating and humanizing potential of the original teachings of
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of 1990-1991. It is possible that this heightened emotional state contributed to a fatal
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This stance in particular brought him into conflict with Rome. In 1977, he published
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from freedom and loss of ability to contribute to the wellbeing of society.
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Volume V: Hindutva and Indian Religious Traditions and Related Essays
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Religion, Ideology and counterculture; Essays in honour of S.Kappen
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Volume VI: Tradition Modernity Counterculture and Related Essays
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Volume IV: Liberation Theology and Marxism and Related Essays
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Volume III: Jesus and Cultural Revolution and Related Essays
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Religious Alienation and Praxis according to Marx's
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The Future of Socialism and Socialism of the Future
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Jesus and Cultural Revolution; an Asian Perspective
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He pursued studies at the 308:Censorship and the Future of Asian Theology 265:was the people, and particularly the poor. 321:Kappen had been visiting professor to the 318:Kappen was censured for the publication. 106:Learn how and when to remove this message 534:Hindutva and Indian Religious Traditions 416:Hindutva and Indian Religious Traditions 471:I: Jesus and Freedom and Related Essays 575:Philip Mathew and Ajit Murickan (ed), 7: 558:Towards a Holistic Cultural Paradigm 440:Towards a Holistic Cultural Paradigm 356:on 30 November 1993. Kappen died in 44:adding citations to reliable sources 540:Divine Challenge and Human Response 511:(Prophecy and Counterculture),1992. 464:Collected Works of Sebastian Kappen 422:Divine Challenge and Human Response 276:, with a strong preference for the 528:Tradition Modernity Counterculture 410:Tradition Modernity Counterculture 14: 499:(From Faith to Revolution),1972. 20: 497:Vswäsathilninnu Viplavathilèkku 392:Liberation Theology and Marxism 209:, he found in Marxian tools of 31:needs additional citations for 503:Marxian DarsĹ›nathinu Orämukham 376:, Orbis Books, New York, 1977. 331:Catholic University of Louvain 327:Vidyajyoti College of Theology 323:Pontifical Faculty of Theology 1: 515:Akraistavanäya YèśuvinĂ© Thèdi 509:Pravachanam Prathisamskruthi 418:, Manusham, Ettumanoor, 2000 179:), obtaining a doctorate in 648:People from Idukki district 638:20th-century Indian Jesuits 466:, ISPCK, Delhi, 2021 19 360:; his body was returned to 221:Evolving thought and action 669: 412:, Visthar, Bangalore, 1994 590:Prathi-samskruthiyilekku 442:, C S S, Tiruvalla, 2003 424:, C S S, Tiruvalla, 2001 183:(1961) with a thesis on 147:Born into a traditional 522:Posthumous publications 190:. 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