Jojo M. Fung, S.J. (“Teaching Theology: A Ministry with a Mystagogy”) criticizes the enslavement of theology to a kind of positivistic rationalism that relativizes and sanitizes the religio-cultural worldview of the common people. He also criticizes an exaggerated dualism that separates humankind from the cosmos and alienates the creature from the Creator, making the latter so distant and inaccessible. Theology must be grounded on bedrock mysticism, i.e., it must be rooted in a personal encounter with and experience of God so that its articulation would resonate with people who have already been touched by God in their lives. Fung thus proposes a ministry of teaching theology that involves “a mystagogy in which the lecturer guides the formandi in a contemplation of placing oneself in God’s triune presence, becoming attentive to God’s voice and the deepest passion, to the burning issues and challenges in the formandi’s heart” (p. 128). -from the Editor’s Preface