A Theological Review by Osamu Takeuchi, S.T.D.

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This page presents a theological review by Osamu Takeuchi, S.T.D., Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Sophia University, and Director of the Institute of Grief Care.

After reading Inside Out: Holding the Child Within — From Drop+Kiss…+, Fr. Takeuchi discusses the book from the perspective of life and loss.

Osamu Takeuchi, S.T.D.

Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Sophia University / Catholic priest, Society of Jesus.

Born in 1958. After graduating from the Faculty of Theology at Sophia University, he received his Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. His area of expertise is moral theology.

His books include Traces of the Wind (Kyoyusha, 2004), Landscapes of Words: The Invitation of the Gospel and Its Fruits (Kyoyusha, 2007), Exploring the Modernity of J. H. Newman (co-author, Nansosha, 2005), Rethinking Religious Education in Churches and Schools: In Search of “New Teaching” (co-author, Oriens Institute for Religious Research, 2009), Thoughts on Religious Coexistence (co-author, Kyoyusha, 2012), The Development of Religious Coexistence (co-author, Kyoyusha, 2013), Religious Coexistence and Science (co-author, Kyoyusha, 2014), A Thorough Comparison of Buddhism and Christianity (co-author, Daihorinkaku, 2016), The Power of Life: Pope Francis’s Message (co-author, The Kirisuto Shimbun, 2021), and Stories of Life and Sexuality: The Ethics of Human Beings as Personal Existence (Shunjusha, 2023).

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