Bio

Nato in Tamil Nadu (India) nel 1967. È professo nella società salesiana dal 1986 e sacerdote dal 1997. È professore ordinario di Teologia Morale Speciale alla Facoltà di Teologia dell’Università Pontificia Salesiana. Nel 2004 ha conseguito il dottorato in filosofia all’Università Pontificia Salesiana, Roma, con una ricerca su Etica di responsabilità di Hans Jonas. Inoltre, con lo studio critico su Gaudium et Spes e Compendio della Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa ha ottenuto nel 2011 il dottorato in teologia morale dalla Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgio. E’ stato Direttore dell’Istituto di Teologia Pastorale dal 2015 al 2020 e dal 2020 è il Vice Decano della Facoltà di Teologia. E’ professore invitato a Don Bosco Theological Centre, Chennai, per il corso di Teologia morale sociale.

Contatto: sahayadas@unisal.it

Aree di Ricerca

Dottrina sociale della Chiesa
Famiglia e sessualità
Educazione morale dei giovani

Pubblicazioni e Ricerca

LIBRI

Ethics of Modern Technology: An Introduction to the Ethics of Responsibility, Arumbu Publications, Chennai, 2009.
The Church in the World: The Reception of ‘Gaudium et Spe’s in the ‘Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church’, Theological Publications in India, Bengaluru 2015.
J. Vallabraj – S. Fernando, Proclaiming the Gospel of Wholeness: The Perennial Relevance of ‘Evangelii Nuntiandi’, Kristu Jyoti Publications, Bengaluru, 2015.

LIBRI CURATI

Pudumai Doss, Jesu – Fernando, Sahayadas (edd.), Prophets with Wings. Accompanying the Young in Today’s India, All India Don Bosco Education Society, New Delhi, 2018.
Fernando, Sahayadas – Pudumai Doss, Jesu (edd.), Works of Mercy and Education of the Young, Don Bosco Youth Animation – South Asia, New Delhi, 2016.
Pudumai Doss, Jesu – Fernando, Sahayadas – Antonysamy, Maria Charles (edd.), Empowering Education in Today’s India, Don Bosco Youth Animation – South Asia, New Delhi, 2015.
Fernando, Sahayadas – Pudumai Doss, Jesu (edd.), With Gentleness and Love: Don Bosco and Education of the Young, Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2015.
Fernando, Sahayadas – Pudumai Doss, Jesu (edd.), Youth and Family in Today’s India, Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2014.
Pudumai Doss, Jesu – Fernando, Sahayadas – Devadoss, Sahayaraj – Vallabaraj, Jerome (edd.), Education of the Young in Today’s India, Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2011.

RECENTI ARTICOLI E COLLABORAZIONI IN LIBRI

Evangelisation of the Young and Education to love: Insights from the Synod of Bishops on Youth, in Communicating the Good News. A Renewed Focus on Evangelization, ed. Cassius Correya (= Don Bosco Theological Series, 4), Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2020, 185-209.
Vocazione all’amore: il Sinodo dei Vescovi sulla sessualità dei giovani, in Giovani, vocazione e sinodalità missionaria. La pastorale giovanile nel processo sinodale, ed. Salvatore Currò – Marcello Scarpa, LAS, Roma, 2019, 99-113.
Church, a Promoter of Peace: Fifty Years of Constant Focus, in Emerging Church. Prospects, Challenges, Relevance & Response, ed. Victor Antonyraj (= Don Bosco Theological Series, 3), Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2019, 22-54.
“Ero straniero e mi avete accolto”. Comunità cristiane di fronte all’immigrazione. Presentazione, «Salesianum» 81 (2019) 209-215.
Discernimento morale dei giovani alla luce della Parola di Dio, in Bibbia, giovani e discernimento. «Fin dalla giovinezza, o Dio, mi hai istruito» (Sal 71,17), ed. Guido Benzi – Franciszek Krasoń, LAS, Roma, 2019, 123-135.
Socio-Political Discernment of Youth in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching, in Prophets with Wings. Accompanying the Young in Today’s India, ed. Jesu Pudumai Doss – Sahayadas Fernando, All India Don Bosco Education Society, New Delhi, 2018, 133-160.
Famiglia e giovani, in Nuova enciclopedia di bioetica e sessuologia, ed. Giovanni Russo, Elledici, Torino, 2018, 1074-1079.
Religious Fanaticism and Youth: A Moral Reading, in Alle radici del fanatismo. Tavola Rotonda, 8 novembre 2017, ed. Maurizio Marin – Jose Kuruvachira, LAS, Roma, 2018, 316-336.
Family and Education of Children. Insights from Amoris Laetitia, in Marriage & Family at the Crossroads. A Reading from Theological Perspectives, ed. Patrick Mathias, (= Don Bosco Theological Series, 2), Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2017, 227-266.
Misericordia e pastorale familiare della Chiesa in ‘Amoris Laetitia’, in Beati Misericordes. Questioni pastorali e giuridiche sulla misericordia, ed. Jesu Pudumai Doss, LAS, Roma, 2017, 107-122.
Justice and Mercy in Laudato Sì’, in God’s Mercy and Justice. A Reading from Theological Perspectives, ed. Don Bosco Augustine, (= Don Bosco Theological Series, 1), Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2016, 99-124.
To Give Drink to the Thirsty, in Works of Mercy and Education of the Young, ed. Sahayadas Fernando – Jesu Pudumai Doss, Don Bosco Youth Animation – South Asia, New Delhi, 2016, 39-55.
Violence and Religion in the Contemporary World, in Le ragioni dell’ateismo. Spunti di dialogo per i credenti, ed. M. Marin – J. Kuruvachira, LAS, Roma, 2016, 426-447 (edizione digitale).
Bozzolo, A. – Chiodi, M. – Dianin, G. – Sequeri, P. – Tinti, M. (edd.), Famiglia e Chiesa, un legame indissolubile. Contributo interdisciplinare per l’approfondimento sinodale (Città del Vaticano: LEV, 2015): contributi personali a pp. 106-110 e 263-267.
Religious Resources for an Empowering Education of the Young, in Empowering Education in Today’s India, ed. Jesu Pudumai Doss – Sahayadas Fernando – Maria Charles Antonysamy, Don Bosco Youth Animation – South Asia, New Delhi, 2015, 185-201.
Religion in the Salesian Preventive System: Challenges for the Education of the Young Today, in «Divyadaan Journal of Philosophy and Education», 26/3 (2015) 367-394.
Educating the Young in the Family towards Responsible Living with the Mass Media, in Youth and Family in Today’s India, ed. Sahayadas Fernando – Jesu Pudumai Doss, Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2014, 183-201.
Ecclesia Domestica, a School of Peace: Relevance of the Teachings of John Paul II in Times of Communal Violence in the Pluri-Religious India, in The Household of God and Local Households, ed. Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi – Gerard Mannion – Peter De Mey, «Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium» 254, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2013, 263-277.
Formation in Virtue and Moral Identity: Re-reading Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, in «Jnanodaya Journal of Philosophy» 20 (2013) 11-31.
Concern for Family in the Final Statements of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India Meetings, in «Salesianum» 74 (2012) 611-630.
Social Dimension of Education: Contribution from Catholic Social Teaching, in Education of the Young in Today’s India, ed. Jesu Pudumai Doss – Sahayadas Fernando – Sahayaraj Devadoss – Jerome Vallabaraj, Don Bosco Publications, Chennai, 2011, 241-259.
Education to Peace in the Social Teachings of John Paul II, in «The Living Word» 117 (2011) 2: 136-152.
Human-Cosmos Relationship: A Critical Conversation with the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, in Relation and Relativity: Studies on Moral Issues. Festschrift in Honour of Rev. Dr. Felix Podimattam, ed. Johnson Puthenpurackal, Media House, Delhi, 2010, 123-155.
The Social Ministry of Priests: A Review of the Magisterial Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, in Priests of Christ in the Church for the World, ed. G. Caputa – J. Fox, Studium Theologicum Salesianum “SS Peter and Paul”, Jerusalem, 2010, 122-159.
Philosophy of Social Teaching (Catholic), in ACPI Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 2 ed. Johnson Puthenpurackal, Asian Trading Corporation, Bangalore 2010, 1305-1308.
Bibliografia di Hans Jonas (1922-2010), in Hans Jonas: un profilo, ed. Paolo Becchi, Morcelliana, Brescia, 2010, 129-188.
Images of the Church in Gaudium et Spes and the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church: Diversity or Diversion?, in «Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection» 74 (2010) 266-286.
God and Socio-economic Development in Caritas in Veritate, in «Vaiharai» 14 (2009) 2: 7-29.
Primordial Resources for the Development of Modern India, in «Jnanodaya Journal of Philosophy» 15 (2008) 59-73.