Rev. Dr. Rogi Thomas Narithookkil CST

Rev. Dr. Rogi Thomas Narithookkil CST Rev. Dr. Rogi Thomas Narithookkil CST
Little Flower Institute of Philosophy and Religion,
Aluva- 683101, Kerala
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The Pontifical Scots College,  000189, 481 Via Cassia, Rome, Italy
Date of Birth 20.01.1974
Date of Ordination to Priesthood 13.04.2002
SSLC Little Flower HS, Chemmalamattam, 1989
PDC Dayananda Arya Vidyalaya College, Malout,1992
B.Ph.  Little Flower Seminary, 1995
B.Sc. University of Punjab,  2006
Mph. DVK Bangalore, 1997
B.Th. St. Charles Seminary, Nagpur, 2002
  Seminar Skills, UK, 2012
Assignment Writing Skills, UK, 2012
ACAS training on Bullying and Harassment, UK, 2013
Formator’s Training, University of Holy Cross, Rome, 2020.
MLitt Master of Letters in Continental Philosophy
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
2012, “Re-Evaluating Religion and Transcendence in a World beyond Secularism: Reflection on Taylor’s Notion of Secularism and its Implications for Religious Belief”
Ph.D. University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, 2018
The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor.
 

Resident Professor (2006-2008; 2019-)

 Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Little Flower Seminary, Aluva.
Subjects Taught: Islamic Studies, Metaphysical Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Hermeneutics and Postmodernism
  The Pontifical Scots College, Rome
Subjects Taught: Dialogue with Atheism, Continental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism, Spirituality
  The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, Rome
Subject Taught: The Hermeneutic Critique of Truth; Hermeneutics: Intersections and Encounters
  The Pontifical Beda College, Rome
Subject Taught: The Philosophical Anthropology, Spirituality
  The International Catholic College, Maryvale, Birmingham, UK, Associate Professor.
Subjects Taught: Philosophy of Culture and Cosmology
 Administrative Experience  Vice-Rector and Procurator, 2002-2006, Little Flower College, Punjab, IND
   Dean of Philosophy, 2006-2008, Little Flower Seminary, Aluva, Kerala, IND
   Assistant Priest, 2008-2018, St. Clements Parish, Dundee, Scotland, UK
   Seminar Skills, 2012, UK, 2012
   Assignment Writing Skills, UK
   Syro- Malabar Chaplain, 2008-2015. Diocese of Aberdeen and Dunkeld, UK
   ACAS training on Bullying and Harassment, 2013, UK
   Chaplain, 2013-2015: St. Clements School, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
   Chaplain, 2012-2018: St. Joseph Wellburn Home, Dundee, UK.
   Director of Studies, 2019-2022: The Pontifical Scots College, Rome, IT
   Formator’s Training, 2020, University of Holy Cross, Rome, IT
   Professor, 2019 The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, Rome, IT
   Professor, 2019, The Pontifical Beda College, Rome, IT
  Spiritual Director, 2022: The Pontifical Scots College, Rome, IT
  Visiting Lecturer, 2022: St. Anselm Institute, Rome, IT
  Associate Lecturer, 2021: Maryvale International Catholic Institute, Birmingham, UK
Publications and Paper Presentations

“Verwindung: A Note towards the Analysis of Gianni Vattimo’s Concept of Kenosis.” University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, School of Humanities Postgraduate Conference held on 12-13th May 2014, University of Dundee, UK.
 

“Overcoming Epistemology and Epiphany of Secularism.” University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, School of Humanities Postgraduate Conference held on 12-13th May 2015, University of Dundee, UK.
 

“Post-Secular Return of Religion: A Religion of Being-for-the-Other.” Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) Washington. D.C., University of Madras, Chennai Philosophical Forum, and Sri Vishnu Mohan Foundation, Chennai, India, 22-23 December 2016.
 

“From Opposition to Complementarity:  The Transition of Religious Self to Secular Self. “International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 17-20 April 2018.
 

“Caritas Takes Precedence over Veritas. Re-Engaging Religion in Postmodernity.” International Conference on The Philosophical Turn Towards Religion. 7-8 November 2019, University of Malta, Malta.
 

“Post-Secular Return of Religion: A Religion of Being-for-the-Other.” In  IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971), 2(7), 56-75. Retrieved from https://www.ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/775, 2017.
 

“Are Religion and Secularism Mutually Exclusive? Charles Taylor’s Post-Secular Religion in A Secular Age” (under Review)
 

“Ontologizing the disengaged: Charles Taylor’s philosophy of knowledge” (under Review)
 

“The Relevance of Kantian Sublime in Relation to Schlegel’s Aesthetic Theory of the Fragments” (under Review)
 

“Freedom enmeshed in servitude: Retrospection into “Unhappy Consciousness” in G.W.F. Hegel (under Review)
 

“From ‘sacred’ to ‘secular’? The hermeneutical future of religion in the thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor.” In Asian Horizons (Vol 14, No. 1, 2020), 269-275,  http://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2879/3162, AsianHorizons March 2020.
  “The Hermeneutic of Beauty (Pulchritudinis): Promises and Challenges of Catechesis for the Eastern Churches in the West.” Maryvale Institute & Archdiocese of Birmingham: Exploring the Directory for Catechesis Virtual Conference, June 1, 2021, Philosophical Reflections & Global Educational Challenges, Birmingham.
  “Secularisation as Kenotic Incarnation.” In Olives, December 2021
 

“Hermeneutical Re-engaging of Religion and the Sacred.” In Omega: Indian Journal of Science and Religion, Vol.13 No.2 December 2021, 06-26.
 

“Being” and “Ontology of Actuality.”  In The Vattimo Dictionary, April, 2023. 
 

“A Reflexive Re-evaluation and Return of Religion Charles Taylor and Gianni Vattimo Re-engage Secularism.” In Philosophy International Journal. April 2022, PhIJ-RA-22-278.
Areas of Research and Teaching: Philosophical Theology, Philosophy of Religion-II, Philosophical Anthropology, Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Indian Philosophy, Dialogue with Atheism, Re-Engaging Religion in Postmodernism, Hermeneutics, and the Critique of Truth and Situating ‘Truth’ in post-modernity.
 

*Rogi Thomas holds an MLitt and PhD from the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. Currently he lectures at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome (Angelicum); the Pontifical Beda College, Rome; Spiritual Director at the Pontifical Scots College, Rome; Associate professor at International Catholic College, Maryvale, Birmingham; and Little Flower Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Kerala, India. His area of teaching and research include Philosophical Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Anthropology, Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Cosmology, and Postmodernism.