John D. Adolfo

Ladingit and Nakem : Grief, Personhood, and Moral Responsibility in Ilocano Rural Contextual Theology

This article examines the Ilocano concepts ladingit and nakem as resources for a contextual theological anthropology. It argues that ladingit, commonly understood as sorrow or grief, may be interpreted theologically as relational pain arising from the loss of persons whose presen...