12 Facts About Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Joseph, SJ is an Indian Catholic priest and philosopher.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu is Chair Professor, JRD Tata Foundation on Business Ethics at XLRI, Jamshedpur and Professor of Philosophy, Science and Religion at Jnana Deepa, Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu was Director of JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies and Association of Science, Society and Religion, Pune.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu is a co-founder and has been a co-publisher of two journals, Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies and AUC: Asian Journal of Religious Studies.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu has been contributing regularly to both academic and popular journals.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu is involved in science-religion dialogue and science-related activities and teaches courses on them as well.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu became interested in the quest for the unification of the fourfold forces of nature in physics and the hermeneutics of dialogue by Paul Ricoeur.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu considers the dialogical dimension not only to religions but to human existence.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu took up issues in science-religion dialogue, which, according to him, is "not an option but an obligation" for the very survival of the human species, believing it called for radical commitment.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu is convinced that genuine and painful dialogue is the only way forward for the human community.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu says that the dialogical reality is relational and, at the same time, paradoxical.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu is interested in looking at both science and religion critically and creatively, so that they can enrich each other and humanity.