{"id":65141,"date":"2019-01-02T06:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=65141"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T10:49:14","slug":"samuel-rayan-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=65141","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Rayan passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Samuel Rayan, renowned Asian theologian, dies<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/samuel-rayan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65142\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/samuel-rayan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/samuel-rayan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/samuel-rayan.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>By Jose Kavi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 2, 2019:<\/strong>\u00a0Jesuit Father Samuel Rayan, a renowned proponent of liberation theology, died on January 2. He was 98.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He died around noon at Nirmala Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, where he was undergoing treatment for old age ailments for months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Father George Mutholil, Kerala Jesuit provincial, told Matters India that the funeral details will be decided in the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Father Rayan was born on July 23, 1920, at Kumbalam in the Kollam district of Kerala into a family of two girls and six boys. He entered the Kerala province of the Society of Jesus in in 1939. He was ordained a priest on March 24, 1955.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Born in and brought up in a village in Kerala, he devoted many years to the study of Malayalam literature. He mastered Sanskrit and is well read in Indian religions and philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 1991, a Festschrift was published in his honor. Bread and breath: essays in honor of Samuel Rayan, S.J., on the occasion of his 70th birth day included contributions by Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez, George Soares-Prabhu, and Jon Sobrino.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Being a radical humanist, Father Rayan was convinced that the human person in community is the object of God\u2019s special love. He spoke for the care of the earth, concern for life and commitment to people. His theologizing is deeply rooted in his life, his land and his commitment to Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to Father Rayan, theology is a reminder of the great demands of the Kingdom. For him the central mission of the Christian faith is its insertion into the concrete and daily life of the people, especially of the most marginalized and oppressed members of the social body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cRice is for sharing, bread must be broken and given. Every bowl, every belly shall have its fill, to leave a single bowl unfilled is to rob history of its meaning; to grab many a bowl for myself is to empty history of God,\u201d he used to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mattersindia.com\/2019\/01\/samuel-rayan-renowned-asian-theologian-dies\/?fbclid=IwAR0mRq4MctTVsz2KqjgGRJbHYQX_7p7xzla5j85jqM-Lb1czgAr1pm8oNW0\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Rayan, renowned Asian theologian, dies By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Jan. 2, 2019:\u00a0Jesuit Father Samuel Rayan, a renowned proponent of liberation theology, died on January 2. 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