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Recommended Citation Mendoza, Nollen Jed D. (2026) "From Refuge to Communion: A Theological Synthesis of A Missionary Experience in Guatemala," Loyola Papers: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 9. Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/loyola/vol7/iss1/9 Mendoza, Nollen Jed D. (2026) "From Refuge to Communion: A Theological Synthesis of A Missionary Experience in Guatemala," Loyola Papers: Vol. 7: No. 1, A…

Recommended Citation del Mundo, Christian R. (2026) "Where Christ Suffers Today: A Christological, Ecclesiological, and Missiological Reflection on Human Suffering from War," Loyola Papers: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 8. Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/loyola/vol7/iss1/8

Recommended Citation Contributors, Contributors (2026) "Contributors," Loyola Papers: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 10. Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/loyola/vol7/iss1/10

This article presents a comparative study of moral evil, human freedom, and justice in the Dhammapada and the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Engaging insights from Paul Ricoeur and John Hick, the study examines how Buddhism and Christianity interpret the moral consequences of human actions. While differing in theological foundations—karmic law and divine justice—the traditions converge in a…

This article critically reexamines Mulieris Dignitatem within the context of Angolan cultural cosmology. The study highlights the tension between the symbolic reverence for women and their social marginalization in Angola. Employing feminist and pastoral perspectives, it explores how indigenous relational and life-giving concepts of womanhood can enrich theological reflection. By engaging African…

This article examines the concept of the human person as relatio in the theology of Joseph Ratzinger. Marking the twentieth anniversary of Ratzinger’s election as pope, the paper situates his Logos-Dialogos theology at the intersection of Christology and theological anthropology. It traces the development of personhood from Augustine of Hippo and Boethius to Richard of St. Victor, culminating in …

This article examines the relevance of the political thought of Augustine of Hippo for contemporary social and political challenges. Focusing on Augustine’s concepts of peace, hope, and ordo amoris (the order of love), the study proposes a theological framework for responsible political engagement within the limitations of the earthly city. Engaging the interpretation of Michael Lamb, the paper h…

This paper critiques the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura from a Catholic theological perspective. It argues that Christian Tradition historically precedes Scripture and that, while Scripture is materially sufficient for revelation, it is formally insufficient apart from the living Tradition of the Church. The study further develops the Catholic position through the thought of the French Dom…

This article examines the significance of touch in Greco-Roman Antiquity and the Old Testament. Through an interdisciplinary approach drawing from philosophy, law, medicine, religious practice, and biblical ritual, the study retrieves touch as a meaningful and performative medium that conveys power, holiness, and social order. It shows how touch functions to establish boundaries, mediate relation…

Recommended Citation Ocampo, Leo-Martin Angelo R. (2026) "Editor's Preface," Loyola Papers: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 1. Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/loyola/vol7/iss1/1

Entrepreneurial communication has been predominantly examined within corporate contexts, with limited empirical investigation in faith-based nonprofit governance. This article examines how the Entrepreneurial Communication Paradigm (ECP) operates within a volunteer-dependent religious nonprofit organization and how it contributes to governance sustainability. Although ECP has mainly been develope…

Author ORCID Identifier 0000-0002-2828-7870 Recommended Citation Morales, Ana (2026) "To shred electric guitars while selling skin and organs on the Internet," Kritika Kultura: No. 49, Article 31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2270 Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss49/31

Author ORCID Identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1993-9929 Recommended Citation Gabrillo, James (2026) "Footnote to Disappearance," Kritika Kultura: No. 49, Article 27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2266 Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss49/27

Author ORCID Identifier 0000-0002-7661-1612 Recommended Citation Samar, Edgar Calabia (2026) "Four Reconstructions of Early Vertical Aspirations," Kritika Kultura: No. 49, Article 28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2267 Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss49/28

This study investigates how Ethical Literary Criticism—a Chinese-originated theoretical paradigm developed by Nie Zhenzhao—has been transmitted to, localized within, and advanced by the Malaysian scholarly community. Drawing on archival research, bibliometric surveying, and close reading, the article first reconstructs a multi-layered network of transmission pathways that includes returning Malay…

The present essay intervenes in the resurgent discussions on Cordillera regional autonomy by relocating “autonomy” as it is showcased in the 2023 pageant “Search for Mr. and Ms. Cordillera Autonomy Youth Ambassador” (CAYA). This government-organized pageant simulates the simultaneously isolating and relational understanding of islands through the ili, an Indigenous form of self-governance, embodi…

In this article, we argue that negative affects play crucial roles in shaping the identity of Malaysian Chinese within the context of Anglophone stand-up comedy. While prior studies on stand-up comedy have largely focused on individual affects such as shame or anger, little attention has been paid to the relational and synergistic dynamics of negative affects, particularly within racialized and p…

This essay addresses Korean islanders who were produced and disregarded by Japanese colonialism as colonial wasted lives under the Japanese colonial regime on the Korean Peninsula by examining Se-dŏk Ham’s drama “Mui-do Gihaeng” through a conjunction of Zygmunt Bauman’s conception of wasted humans and Giorgio Agamben’s discussion of Auschwitz. As an inevitable and inseparable outcome of the colon…

Discussions about the monster have always hinged on the modes of othering or assimilation, yet through mobilizing negative and positive affective registers respectively, they both objectify the monster in service of a normativizing agenda of managing the abnormal, eventually inhibiting the monster’s potentialities in feeling and relating otherwise. This essay traces the historicities of the manan…

Informed by critical island studies, loneliness studies and posthumanist thought, with a particular emphasis on Rosi Braidotti’s propositions of affirmative ethics and zoe, this study focuses on children’s Robinsonades, specifically Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) and Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot (2016), to examine how the isolation setting intensifies characters’ experiences of…