Projects
N. Longobardo's contribution to the cultural and religious exchange between Europe and China during the XVII Century KU Leuven
During the 16th and 17th century, many Jesuit missionaries moved from Europe to China to evangelize the Gospel, one of those was Nicola Longobardo, Long Huamin 龍華民 (1565- 1655). Enjoying the appreciation of Matteo Ricci, Longobardo became his successor in 1610 as Superior of the Chinese mission. He was a prominent Jesuit personality, but historiography has put him in a direct and arbitrary comparison with Ricci and, as a result, his ...
The Creation of Yang Zhu as A Philisopher in The Republican Era KU Leuven
The fame of Yangism was, in ancient times, as great as Confucianism and Mohism. As a matter of fact, Mohism and Confucianism were considered as equals during the Warring States period and the Han Dynasty, while Yangism being the third greatest school among the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is not until later times that Yangism and Mohism were deemed less than Confucianism. And after the Book Burning and Burial of the Scholars in the Qin ...
“Relational Confession as Therapy of the Heart?” A Postmodern Dialogue between Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions and Elementary Experience in Psychology KU Leuven
This research project is entitled “Love and desire in Saint Augustine's Confessions in dialogue with Elementary Experience in Psychology as a relational narrative for the postmodern context.” This project seeks, first, to situate Augustine within the therapeutic perspective of ancient world and set his confessional perspective in dialogue with the postmodern reception and the implications of a “postmodern confession”. Secondly, to explore the ...
A Study on Philosopy of YangZhu KU Leuven
The aim of this investigation is to understand philosophical perspective of YangZhu. In this inquiry, I focus primarily on the concept of “good” itself and the condition for the “good life”—with particular attention given to a “good community” as espoused in the philosophy of Yang Zhu. Whereas the concept of good regarding individual life is basically related with natural preference for pleasure and happiness, the concept of good regarding ...
The political weight of carrying Christ's wounds. Stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950. University of Antwerp
The Biblical Commentaries of Cornelius A'Lapide and Guilielmus Estius, and the Post-Tridentine View on Priesthood and Eucharistic Sacrifice KU Leuven
The main aim of the project is to examine, through a careful selection of significant Bible pericopes, how the Counter-reformation biblical commentators Cornelius A’Lapide and Guilielmus Estius represent theologies of priesthood and the eucharistic sacrifice in their exegetical work. To illuminate these themes, primary consideration will be given to the Letter to the Hebrews and the Gospel Institution Narratives as prototypes for priestly ...
Re: Dessauvage. Modern church architecture revisited. KU Leuven
Spiritual Morality. The Religious Orders and the Virtues, 1050-1300 KU Leuven
Spiritual Morality aims to contribute to modern-day virtue ethics from a medieval perspective; to the reflection on method and form in the study of medieval theology; and to the history of the birth of the religious orders of the “long twelfth century.” It discusses basic religious ideas that gave powerful impulses to incipient institutions. By analyzing a selection of foundational (Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, Augustinian, ...