Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Paul Pulikkan
Pastoral Centre,
THRISSUR 680005
Kerala, India.

Mob. 9447239144
Email: pulikkanp@yahoo.co.in

 
Academic Qualification
1994 MA in Theology and          MA in Religious Studies (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
1998 PhD in Theology (Between Pastoral Concerns   and Individual Preferences. Response of an Asian Church in an Ecumenical Council- A Historico-Theological Study of the Indian Participation in the Second Vatican Council (K.U.Leuven)
2006 Msc in Psychology (University of Madras)
 

Academic Profile

1999 Professor of History of Church and Theology and of Second Vatican Council at the Marymatha Major Seminary, Trichur
   
1999-2000 Visiting Professor of Christology, at the   Pontifical Oriental Institute of Religious Studies, Kottayam
   
2000 Visiting Professor of Second Vatican Council at the St.Thomas   Benedictine Monastery, Kappadu, Kerala
   
2001 Nov.
Visiting Scholar, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Corrector of a Doctoral Thesis (by Rosamma Mathew, titled Ecclesial Dynamics of Consecrated Life. Theological Investigations in the Light of Vatican II and Vita Consecrata with a special reference to the Indian Context).
   
2002 Professor of History of Church and Theology and Ecclesiology at the Institute of Theology, Trichur.
   
2006 Visiting Professor and Director, Chair for Christian Studies and Research, University of Calicut.
   
2007 Research Guide, Faculty of Social Sciences Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
   
2007 Member of the Board of Studies, Department of Christianity, University of Mysore.
   
Important Publications

Books:
PULIKKAN, P., Indian Church at Vatican II, A Historico Theological Study of the Indian Participation in the Second Vatican Council (Marymatha publications 1), Trichur, 2001, pp.  LXII + 591(ISBN 81-87906-00-6). Book Review of the work: Vidyajyothi, Journal of Theological Reflection 67 (2003) 734-735.

PULIKKAN, P. (ed.), Lord’s Shepherds to Love and to Serve (Marymatha publications 4), Trichur, 2007, pp.  324 (ISBN 81-87906-03-0).

PULIKKAN, P. (ed.), A Communicating Church in India, CBCI 26th General Assembly, Thrissur, January 7-14, 2004, Trichur, 2004, pp. 300.

PULIKKAN, P. (ed.), The Evangelization Decade, the Great Jubilee and the Archdiocesan Assembly in the Archdiocese of Trichur, (Marymatha publications 2) Trichur, 2002, pp. 98. ((ISBN 81-87906-01-4).

Articles:
PULIKKAN, P., The Reception of the Second Vatican Council in the Indian Church and Areas of Further Realization, in Vidyajyothi, Journal of Theological Reflection 71 (2007) 208-219, 285-301.

PULIKKAN, P., Meeting of Faith and Cultures in Kerala in Pontificium Consilium de Cultura, Cultural Resources for Living the Christian Faith in Dialogue with Traditional Cultures in the Context of Cultural Transformation, Meeting of Catholic Cultural Centres in India, 20-23 November, 2006, Goa, Vatican, 2007, 150-157.

PULIKKAN, P., Die Rezeption des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils in der indischen Kirche. Ist-Stand und Forschungsperspektiven, (The Reception of Second Vatican Council in the Indian Church. The Actual Situation and the Research Perspectives) in: Peter Hünermann, Bernd Jochen Hilberath und Lieven Boeve (eds)., Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil und die Zeichen der Zeit heute. Anstöße zur weiteren Rezeption, Herder, Freiburg - Basel - Wien 2006, 504-528.  

PULIKKAN, P., Nostra Aetate, The Indian Church and the Hindu Religion in G. ROUTHIER (ed.),Réceptions de Vatican II. Le concile au risque de l'histoire et des espaces humains, Leuven, 2004, 153-173.

PULIKKAN, P., The Indian Church at Vatican II, in Vidyajyothi, Journal of Theological Reflection 66 (2002) 164-174.

PULIKKAN, P., Indian Bishops in the First Session: From a Slow Start to an Emerging Conciliar Ethos, in M.T. FATTORI & A. MELLONI (eds.), Experience, Organisations and Bodies at Vatican II, Leuven, 1999, 87-122.

PULIKKAN, P. & LAMBERIGTS, M., The Vota of the Indian Bishops and their Participation in the Liturgy Debate During the Second Vatican Council, in Questions Liturgiques 78 (1997) 61-79.

Conferences and Lectures
Dr Paul Pulikkan is the Chair for Christian Studies at the University of Calicut in Kerala. He did his doctorate in K.U. Leuven, specializing on the Indian participation of Second Vatican Council. He teaches Church History and the Second Vatican Council at Marymatha Major Seminary in Trichur and the Sanatana Major Seminary in Thamarassery in Kerala. Dr Pulikkan is a research Guide at the Jeevadhara Department of Socio Religious Studies at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala. He has given lectures in the Universities of Chichester (UK), Oxford (Ripon College), Tuebingen, Marburg Theological Faculty of Fulda (Germany), Institute of Religious Studies, Bologna, Italy.

Important papers 1. 2007 Jan 12-15 - “Interreligious Dialogue and Ecclesiology” in the International Conference  Ecclesiological Investigations (a unit of American Academy of Religion),  at Hawarden, Wales, UK. 2. 2005 Dec. 3-7, Paper on The Reception of II Vatican Council in India at the International Symposium organized by The Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany on the 40th anniversary of the Council. 3. Leuven Encounters In Systematic Theology (LEST) (organized by Catholic University of Leuven). Presentation of Papers in 2001, 2003, 2007. 4. 2000 Oct 16-19: The Reception of Vatican II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New York (organized by Card. Suenens Centre, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA). Presentation of Paper: Indian Reception of Vatican II, with a reference to the Asian reception.
 
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