Prof. Dr. Annie Kunnath

Annie Kunnath is a tenured faculty member at the Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), in New Delhi, India. She read philosophy, theology, and religious studies in India, France, and Belgium. Her research focuses primarily on philosophical and biblical hermeneutics, with a particular emphasis on the works of Hans Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean Greisch. She also specialises in interreligious dialogue, and has a particular interest in the Apocrypha, specifically “the Visions of Amram” and the “Acts of Paul and Thecla”.

She was an intern at the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace in the Vatican. She has also taught at Pontifical Catholic major seminaries in India.

Her translation of Jean Greisch’s book Entendre d’une autre oreille. Les enjeux philosophiques de l’herméneutique biblique, into Listening with Other Ears. Philosophical Issues of Biblical Hermeneutics, will be published in the Bloomsbury Press series “Encounters in Philosophy and Theology”, co-edited by J. Bloechl (Boston College), and K. Hart (Duke University), in 2026.

• Masters Advanced Programme (MAP) in Theology and Religious Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium, 2012)
• Master of Theology (KU Leuven, Belgium, 2012)
• Post doctorate in Philosophy (Fonds Ricoeur, The Protestant Faculty of Theology of Paris, France, 2011)
• Joint Doctorate in Philosophy (University of Poitiers, France & Catholic University of Paris, France, 2009)
• Capacité doctorale in Philosophy (Catholic University of Paris, France, 2005)
• Bachelor of Theology (Catholic University Paris, France, 2000)
• M.Phil. (pre-doctorate) in Philosophy (Radhakrishnan Institute of Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras, India, 1992)
• Master of Arts in Indian Philosophy (Radhakrishnan Institute of Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras, India, 1990)

• Hermeneutics (Philosophical & Biblical)
• Dialectics of Suspicion and Trust
• Philosophers: Hans Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Jean Greisch
• Philosophy of Fallibility and Recognition
• Jewish Philosophy and Religion
• Apocrypha: Visions of Amram; Acts of Paul and Thecla
• Philosophy of Feminism
• Christian-Muslim Relations
• Interreligious Dialogue

Books

1. To Carry Your New Fire Today (co-edited with Joseph Ethakuzhy & Sahayaraj Lourdusamy), Bangalore, TPI, 2019.
2. De l’homme faillible à l’homme de la reconnaissance. Une relecture de l’anthropologie herméneutique de Paul Ricœur, Lille, France, ANRT, 2012.
   Peer-reviewed by Prof. Dr. Felix Wilfred, Vidyajothi. Journal of Theological Reflections, May 2013, Pp.397-400, New Delhi.

Articles

1. “The Struggle of Hermeneutics in the Fertile Desert of Suspicion”, in Johnson J. Puthenpurackal and Henry Jose Kodikuthiyil (eds.), Being, Believing, Becoming. Festschrift in honour of Rev. Dr. George Panthanmackel, MSFS., ATC Publishers, 2025, p. 429-442.
2. “Between Christian Hope and AI’s Secular Hope: Thinking with and Through Spe Salvi”, in Ivan D’Souza (ed.), Hope. Philosophizing From Multi-Horizons, Association of Christian Philosophers of India & Christian World Imprints, 2025, p. 393-406.
3. “The Ethics of Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Capable Person”, in Kuruvilla Pandikattu (ed.), Applied Ethics and Rationality. Contemporary Indian Perspectives, SAPERE, Volume 74, Springer, 2025, p. 409-424.
4. “Poetics of Waiting” Critical Hermeneutics, 8 (1), 2024 (“Philosophy and Practice of Human Education”), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, July 2024, p. 447-473.
5. Canullo Carla, Kunnath Annie, Castagna Marco, “Living, Interpreting, and Understanding Philosophically: Jean Greisch’s Contributions to Philosophical and Biblical Hermeneutics”, Critical Hermeneutics, 5 (2), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, April 2022.
6. “The mysterious grand banquet of pardon according to Vladimir Jankelevitch”, Segni e Comprensione International, no 101, July-December 2021, p. 34-52.
7. “The Acts of Paul and Thecla. A Call for Being ‘Single’ for the ‘One and Unique’”, in Annie Kunnath, Joseph Ethakuzhy, Sahayaraj Lourdusamy (eds.), To Carry Your New Fire Today, Bangalore, TPI, 2019, p. 313-332.
8. « Transmission-Engagement-Réception », in Stefano Bancalari, Jérôme de Gramont, Jean Leclercq (eds.), Jean Greisch, les trois âges de la raison. Métaphysique, phénoménologique, herméneutique, Paris, Hermann, 2016, p. 375-379.
9. « Paul Ricœur : La route de la reconnaissance de l’homme faillible à l’homme capable », Segni e Comprensione International, no 82, January-April 2014, Pp.24-54.
10. “Charity in Truth is Faithfulness. A Re-Reading of the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate from a Jewish Religious Perspective”, Eastern Journal of Dialogue and Culture, University of Calicut, vol. 3, no 1, January-June 2010, p. 95-111.

Translations
Books

1. Listening with Other Ears. Philosophical Issues of Biblical Hermeneutics, translation of Jean Greisch, Entendre d’une autre oreille. Les enjeux philosophiques de l’herméneutique biblique. Forthcoming (2026) in book series “Encounters in Philosophy and Theology” (Bloomsbury).

Articles

1. “Prelude: When Truth Encounters Us”. Translation of Jean Greisch, ‘Quand la vérité nous donne rendez-vous’. Critical Hermeneutics, 5 (2), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, April 2022, Pp.1-42.
2. “What I Have Learned from My Frequent Contacts with Missionaries”, translation of Raymond Rossignol, « Ce que j’ai appris au contact des missionnaires », in Annie Kunnath, Joseph Ethakuzhy, Sahayaraj Lourdusamy (eds.), To Carry Your New Fire Today, Bangalore, TPI, 2019, Pp.333-342.