The Battle Is Real: Spiritual Warfare, Discipleship, And The Christian “Soldier”,
2017
Liberty University
The Battle Is Real: Spiritual Warfare, Discipleship, And The Christian “Soldier”, Frank Hain
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
A review of current literature demonstrates a plethora of material focused on various deliverance techniques, yet very little material is available to assist pastors with developing a spiritual warfare “basic training” plan. The purpose of this project is to illuminate a ministry’s desperate need to adopt a spiritual warfare worldview, to present the basic elements essential to a spiritual warfare basic training plan, and to create an effective strategy for implementing such a plan. Based on surveys and questionnaires sent to pastors and other ministry leaders, the project reveals the need for a spiritual warfare basic training plan for any …
Buddha, Bhakti, And Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’S Dialogue With Indian Religions,
2017
Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
Buddha, Bhakti, And Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’S Dialogue With Indian Religions, Mathew Thekkemuriyil Antony, Idesbald Goddeeris
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This article analyzes how Sebastian Kappen S.J. (1924-1993), a social thinker and one of the most radical Indian liberation theologians, related to Indian religions. It argues that Kappen, in spite of his criticism of the caste system, also found inspiration in Hinduism. He especially appreciated the ontic and cosmic understandings of transcendence and immanence, the inclusive interpretation of the divine, and the religious approach to nature. In addition, Kappen also valued other Asian religious traditions, such as Buddhism and the Bhakti movement. Being an anti-institutional and anti-hierarchical progressive theologian, Kappen used Indian religions as a challenge to his own Christian …
Book Review: Dancing Bodies Of Devotion: Fluid Gestures In Bharata Natyam,
2017
Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Book Review: Dancing Bodies Of Devotion: Fluid Gestures In Bharata Natyam, Michelle Voss Roberts
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam. By Katherine C. Zubko. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014, xvii + 251 pages.
Editor's Introduction,
2017
University of Notre Dame
Editor's Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The main theme of this year’s issue, “Yoga and God: Hindu and Christian Perspectives,” continues a theme taken up five years ago by this journal, called “Yoga and Christianity.” The articles appearing in the present issue tend to give more explicit attention to the challenge of reconciling Christian theology and spirituality with various yoga systems than did the essays from 2012. Unlike the purely negative approach taken in recent years by many Christian groups to the question of integrating yoga practice and philosophy with Christian spirituality and teaching, the first three authors here affirm the value of yoga practice for …
Issues In Christian Encounters With Yoga: Exploring 3ho/Kundalini Yoga,
2017
Regis College, University of Toronto
Issues In Christian Encounters With Yoga: Exploring 3ho/Kundalini Yoga, Michael Stoeber
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The paper begins by drawing out current issues that have been raised by critics concerning the contemporary practice of Hindu postural types of yoga in western and specifically western Christian contexts, with some illustrative reference to contemporary movements and schools, especially to Bikram Yoga. These are: cultural misappropriation; commodification; lack of moral pre-requisites; narcissistic attachment to bodily effects; occult influences; and doctrinal differences. The paper then explores specific aspects of the theory and practice of 3HO/Kundalini Yoga (3HO/KY) by Christians in light of these possible issues, showing how this tradition of Kundalini Yoga seems to skirt or side-step most of …
Yoga, Christians Practicing Yoga, And God: On Theological Compatibility, Or Is There A Better Question?,
2017
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Yoga, Christians Practicing Yoga, And God: On Theological Compatibility, Or Is There A Better Question?, Andrea R. Jain
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Houston is a wildly diverse city; nonetheless it should come as no surprise that the Houston Chronicle “Belief” section frequently features stories about church expansions or declines, pastoral developments, and other reports on Christian communities. Christians, after all, make up over 70% of the city’s population. A provocative cover of a 2011 Belief section, however, shed light on a very different face of religion in Houston. The cover featured an image of local yoga teacher and entrepreneur Jennifer Buergermeister donning fashionable yoga attire and in the posture of a South Asian goddess, complete (thanks to clever photography) with six arms. …
Theōsis: A Comparative Study Of T. F. Torrance And Rāmānuja,
2017
Emmaus Biblical Seminary
Theōsis: A Comparative Study Of T. F. Torrance And Rāmānuja, Steven Tsoukalas
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This essay is an imaginative conversation as I engage two religious thinkers—the prolific Reformed theologian Thomas F. Torrance (1913-2007) and the great Vedāntin Rāmānuja (traditionally, 1017–1137). I will compare Torrance’s theology1 of theōsis2 (participation in the life of God) and theōria (contemplation as a way of participation in the life of God) with those of Rāmānuja. Though the words themselves were likely unknown to Rāmānuja, through his works one can see a notion of theōsis.
‘I Am The Living Bread’: Ram Mohan Roy’S Critique Of The Doctrine Of The Atonement,
2017
University of Cambridge
‘I Am The Living Bread’: Ram Mohan Roy’S Critique Of The Doctrine Of The Atonement, Ankur Barua
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A striking aspect of Vedantic Hindu and Christian devotional universes is the theme of the humanity of God. Jesus and Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, the transcendental source of worldly reality, are also intensely human figures – they live with and amidst human beings, and they (seem to) suffer and, most intriguingly, even (seem to) undergo death. However, as one plumbs the doctrinal depths of these universes, various theological divergences begin to emerge, relating to the nature of the divine, the relation of the divine to the world, and the soteriological dynamics of the spiritual transformation of human beings. From a Christian …
KristapurāṆA: Reshaping Divine Space,
2017
Uppsala University
KristapurāṆA: Reshaping Divine Space, Pär Eliasson
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
If a place is simply a physical location, the word space can be used for something shaped by mental processes. Physical places influence our lives by putting limits to the physically practicable, whereas spaces exercise their influence through mental processes like shaping our beliefs, values and sentiments. A space may be a mental superstructure based on an actual place, but, since its power is mental, it is not necessary that this place physically exists. One such space, with power to affect the lives of human beings, is heaven. Belief in heaven has had and still has great impact on …
Viewpoint: Fight Or Flight: Thomas Merton And The Bhagavad Gītā1,
2017
Butler University
Viewpoint: Fight Or Flight: Thomas Merton And The Bhagavad Gītā1, Steven J. Rosen
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Two commemorative events of landmark stature inspired the essay you are about to read: First, the year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s abrupt departure from our material vision. Second, 2018 is also the semicentennial celebration of a consequential publication: It was in 1968 that His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda released his unprecedentedly influential Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. As we shall see, the trailblazing Western visionary, Merton, and this particular edition of the Gītā engaged in productive conversation with each other.
Book Review: Absent Mother God Of The West: A Kali Lover’S Journey Into Christianity And Judaism,
2017
Bethany College
Book Review: Absent Mother God Of The West: A Kali Lover’S Journey Into Christianity And Judaism, Holly Hillgardner
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into Christianity and Judaism. By Neela Bhattacharya Saxena. London: Lexington Books, 2016. ix + 208 pages.
Book Review: Longing And Letting Go: Christian And Hindu Practices Of Passionate Non-Attachment,
2017
Loyola Marymount University
Book Review: Longing And Letting Go: Christian And Hindu Practices Of Passionate Non-Attachment, Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Longing and Letting Go: Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment. By Holly Hillgardner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 174 pages.
Book Review: Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux): Christian Nondualism And Hindu Advaita,
2017
University of St. Thomas
Book Review: Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux): Christian Nondualism And Hindu Advaita, Edward T. Ulrich
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux): Christian Nondualism and Hindu Advaita. By J. Glenn Friesen. Calgary: Aevum Books, 2015, 592 pages.
Book Review: Ramana Maharishi: Interpretations Of His Enlightenment,
2017
University of St. Thomas
Book Review: Ramana Maharishi: Interpretations Of His Enlightenment, Edward T. Ulrich
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Ramana Maharishi: Interpretations of His Enlightenment. By J. Glenn Friesen. Calgary: Aevum Books, 2015, 312 pages.
Book Review: The Gender Of Caste: Representing Dalits In Print,
2017
Denison University
Book Review: The Gender Of Caste: Representing Dalits In Print, Claire C. Robison
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print. By Charu Gupta. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016, 352 pages.
Book Review: To Be Cared For: The Power Of Conversion And Foreignness Of Belonging In An Indian Slum,
2017
International Theological Center, Atlanta
Book Review: To Be Cared For: The Power Of Conversion And Foreignness Of Belonging In An Indian Slum, James Elisha Taneti
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum. By Nathaniel Roberts. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016, xv + 312 pages.
Book Review: Caste, Gender, And Christianity In Colonial India: Telugu Women In Mission,
2017
Villanova University
Book Review: Caste, Gender, And Christianity In Colonial India: Telugu Women In Mission, Kerry P. C. San Chirico
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India: Telugu Women in Mission. By James Elisha Taneti. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 203 pages.
Book Review: Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion, And Caste,
2017
The College of the Holy Cross
Book Review: Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion, And Caste, Mathew N. Schmalz
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion, and Caste. Edited by Chad M. Bauman and Richard Fox Young. Abington, UK: Routledge, 2014, xxiii + 264 pages.
Book Review: Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves And Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue In India 1950-1993,
2017
University of Cambridge
Book Review: Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves And Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue In India 1950-1993, Daniel Soars
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993. By Mario I. Aguilar. Jessica Kingsley Publishers: London and Philadelphia, 2016, 200 pages.
Book Review: Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj On “Being Catholic The Tamil Way”,
2017
University of Madras
Book Review: Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj On “Being Catholic The Tamil Way”, James Ponniah
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on “Being Catholic the Tamil Way.” Edited by Reid B. Locklin. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2017, xvii + 290 pages.
