Loyola Papers Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

Welcome to the new Loyola Papers! Loyola Papers was initially published by LST from 1971 to 1986 as a series of occasional papers and informative studies on contemporary issues in Christian doctrine and life. It featured articles written by professors and other authors as well as documentation of local and universal ecclesial events. Students’ research works were also published in Loyola Papers. Issue No. 14 (1986) included papers presented by then San Jose Seminarians Victor Nicdao, Vicente Tugadi, Arnold Crisostomo, and Florencio Salvador in a symposium entitled “Priesthood and the Presbyter.”

Loyola Papers eventually ceased circulation with the launching of LST’s Academic Journal Landas in 1987. Incidentally, the inaugural issue of Landas carried an article by Antonio B. Lambino entitled “Inculturation in Asia: Going Beyond First Gear.”

This relaunch of Loyola Papers will provide strong support to the overall thrust of LST’s Contextualized Theological Program “beyond the first gear.” It will be an effective platform for students and alumni – as contributors and/or as readers – to reflect theologically in the context of their Asian, African, Latin American, and other worldwide realities. Aside from papers in the field of systematic, biblical, moral and pastoral theology, articles on religious education, pastoral psychology and counselling, spirituality and retreat-giving, integral ecology, migration, and philosophy will also be published in Loyola Papers.