Prologue to Provocations (A Search for Truth in Christian Anthropology)

The book is a philosophical endeavour that intends to present facets of our age: pluriform and postmodern. It is a summation of different scholarly articles by various contributors, wherein each contributor has exhibited his/her thought-provoking insights in relation to the subject.

The 21st century post-modern world has increasingly sophisticated the reality of truth. It therefore exhibits attitudes such as prejudices and problems, pluralism and paradoxes which lead to the danger of humanities. Thus, the essential needs for suggested probabilities and possibilities have been provoked for the project. This research work is an attempt to respond to the Search for Truth in relation to Philosophy and other fields of expertise.

The presentations showcased are enriched with critical observations and futuristic- practical insights that reveal a search for truth. They present a practical and pragmatic proposal for understanding the contexts and claims in search for truth. This book will not only serve as a useful groundwork for further in-depth research but also make an inspiring contribution to the significant understanding of the nature of man in search for truth: a prologue to provocations.

The book is a treat for Researchers in the field of Anthropology and Philosophy; Institutes and Readers with an interest in general Philosophy, and its relation to the field of Sociology, Culture, Politics, Ecology, Anthropology, and Theology.

Romero D'Souza, is a perpetually professed member of the Salesian Province of St. Francis Xavier, Mumbai. He has completed his BA degree with a specialization in Sociology from the University of Pune, India. He has completed his Bachelor as well as Master in Philosophy from Divyadaan: Salesian Institute of Philosophy aggregated to the Faculty of Philosophy of the Salesian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy. He is currently doing BTh in Theology at the Studium Theologicum Salesianum, Salesian Pontifical University, Faculty of Theology - Jerusalem Campus -Israel.

Prologue to Provocation: Search for Truth in Christian Anthropology intends to showcase the exciting, world-benefiting, faith-deepening, political, cultural, and ecological engaging reality. This book will assist one to understand our present age-a pluriform postmodern world - and to deal with some of its challenges in a rational manner. My companions-contributors/authors have probed and coped with diverse situations and from their expertise have presented their valuable and thought-provoking insights in these papers. The process for this complied work began when I was thinking of pressing the most impatient question asked by Pontius Pilate to Jesus: "What is Truth?" (John 18:38).

The idea of "Prologue to Provocations" implies before we search for truth we need to tackle issues (problems, probabilities, pluralism, paradoxes, parapraxis). Therefore, this book will deal with a pansophical view in search for truth from varied perspectives and paradigms. It presents a powerful challenge to the fashionable belief of truth in the present day, here and now.

What motivated me to take this step is the movement to life crisis, the challenge to life, and those who choose to live a life of compromise, convenience and consensus concernless human beings. Along with the contributors, I am also concerned of issues with regard to anthropology in the postmodern and globalized era. The unsettling questions also promote new discoveries and insights about humanity, divinity and Christianity which is a light of promise as well as has the darkness of problems. Therefore, there is a gap that grows with ubiquitous challenges and complexities caused often by the relational problem we face in the nature of humanity-human thinking and human living. There is an urgent need to reflect on contemporary intercommunicating realities.

Allow me, to caution you at the very beginning that the thoughts and ideas produced in this compiled work are not infallible pronouncements that claim a monopoly on the ultimate truth. However, they deal with and search for truth in unique and creative ways.

The intended audience of this book are researchers, research students in the field of anthropology and philosophy. Also, it is a must have for the institutes and readers interested in general philosophy and its relation to inter-related disciplines such as sociology, culture, politics, ecology, anthropology, and theology.

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