2011 — 2023
From the year his doctorate was conferred, Fr. Bosco has handed on what he studied — to seminarians, religious and lay students in Bangalore and Chennai, across eleven distinct courses in theology and spirituality.
Institutions
Two theologates in South India, both forming men and women for the service of the Church.
Aggregated to St. Peter's Pontifical Institute, the Indian Institute of Spirituality is one of the country's principal centres for the academic study of Christian spiritual theology — the natural home for a doctorate in the discipline.
A house of theological formation outside Chennai, where he has lectured on the sacraments, doctrine and the spiritual tradition to students preparing for ordained and consecrated life.
Curriculum
The range is deliberate. A spirituality that cannot speak to the Trinity, to the sacraments, to other religions and to the confusions of the present age is not yet a theology.
The foundations: prayer, asceticism, the stages of the interior life.
The spiritual tradition from the modern period to the present day.
How the Gospel has been prayed, lived and expressed on Indian soil.
The central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life.
The last things — death, judgement, heaven and the hope of the Church.
The content of the faith as the Church has received and defined it.
Sacramental theology in principle: sign, cause and the economy of grace.
Penance in doctrine and in practice — the priest's daily work of mercy.
What theology is, how it proceeds, and why the Church requires it.
The Catholic understanding of other religions, and the discipline of dialogue in a plural India.
A theological assessment of the spiritualities that have grown up outside the Church.
“What you have heard from me, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”2 Timothy 2:2
Beyond the Theologate
Teaching has never been confined to seminarians. Alongside the formal courses, Fr. Bosco has given his time to lay men and women who want to understand their faith properly — not a simplified version of it, but the thing itself.
It is the same conviction that runs through his research. Spirituality is not a specialism for the ordained. It is what happens to any person whom God has found.
A doctoral thesis, a book, and three articles in the Indian Journal of Spirituality.