THIS week I received the sad news that Jesuit Father Georges De Schrijver had died while teaching at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.<\/p>\n
Georges had been my mentor and since 1984, when I first arrived as a student from Rome to Leuven in Belgium. He supervised my Doctorate \u00a0Sacred Theology in Sacred Theology and my PhD in Christianity and Contemporary Culture<\/em>, a study broadly based on the theology of Edward Schilleebeeckx and the use of hermeneutics (theory of interpretation). These were published in 1992 and 1994 respectively.<\/p>\n He was unwell for a short time and had been encouraged since October 5 to report to the Jesuit infirmary. However, he procrastinated for a while and on October 10 was sent to the ICU unit of Medical City, Manila, where he died of a heart condition caused by Pneumonia and sepsis.<\/p>\n He had many past students in the Philippines, loved the country and its people and asked to be buried in the Jesuit Sacred Heart cemetery.<\/p>\n In Belgium such scholars are known as our “Doctoral Fathers” because they incubate their ideas through the extensive process and gaining our degrees. But Georges was special. He was a fine man, advocating the rights of the poor and the environment; a good priest but not in the traditional understanding.<\/p>\n He lived alone in an apartment and worked tirelessly for the University until his retirement in 2001. And he was a friend with a versatile mind, quick wit and slightly dour critical temperament. We feared him at times and we loved him. May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THIS week I received the sad news that Jesuit Father Georges De Schrijver had died while teaching at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Georges had been my mentor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}