Rev. Dr. Daniel Kirubaraj, the Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at Gurukul, presented a paper on “Breathing the Breath of God – A Theological Dialogue on ‘I Am’ Theories in the Context of Covid-19” during the Faculty Students Research Seminar on October 1, 2020. The paper brought out Descartes’ Cogito ergo sum (‘I think therefore I am’), Vedanta’sAhamBrahmasmi (‘I am Brahman’) and Ubuntu’s ‘I am a person because of other persons’ along with the theological and Trinitarian “I am” God in breath, flesh and in omnipresent ruach. Dr. Daniel argues that the dialogical view of these I AM theories, let God “to mend our individual selves and as the community of individuals in the life-threatening context of COVID-19.”
