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Book Review: "Zeit Und Geschichte Im Visnupurana", Anand Nayak
Book Review: "Zeit Und Geschichte Im Visnupurana", Anand Nayak
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Zeit und Geschichte im Visnupurana by Heinz Werner Wessler.
Book Review: "Nama Japa: Prayer Of The Name In The Hindu And Christian Traditions", C. Murray Rogers
Book Review: "Nama Japa: Prayer Of The Name In The Hindu And Christian Traditions", C. Murray Rogers
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Nama Japa: Prayer of the Name in the Hindu and Christian Traditions by Vandana Mataji.
Book Reviews Table Of Contents
Book Reviews Table Of Contents
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A listing of the book reviews available in this issue.
Meeting Information
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Information about the meeting for the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.
Science And Christianity: The Positive Attitude, C. Gordon Winder
Science And Christianity: The Positive Attitude, C. Gordon Winder
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The Judeo-Christian Scriptures have been considered by literalists as true in every aspect, including references to the sciences. Scripture states that earth has four corners suggesting that the earth is flat. The sun rises in the morning suggesting that the sun goes around the earth, and earth with humankind is at the centre of the universe. The six days in the Genesis account along with the genealogical chronologies were used by Irish Bishop James Ussher (1581-1652) to calculate that the earth's origin was in 4004 B.C. The Genesis account relates that the origin of humankind, and all the plants and …
Book Review: "Materialien Zur Geschichte Der Ramanuja-Schule Ii", Anand Nayak
Book Review: "Materialien Zur Geschichte Der Ramanuja-Schule Ii", Anand Nayak
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Materialien zur Geschichte der Ramanuja-Schule II by Gerhard Oberhammer.
Vendanta And Modern Science: Some Demarcation Criteria And Commonalities, Varadaraja V. Raman
Vendanta And Modern Science: Some Demarcation Criteria And Commonalities, Varadaraja V. Raman
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
In the past centuries, Western scholars who studied the complexities of Indian thought had at least two motivations. First, there was a need to understand the alien mind-set which they were eager to ameloriate (convert), for they worked on the conviction that they were bringing truth, light, and salvation to a misguided lot. They felt that it was their evangelical responsibility to redeem lost souls. Some of them, whether overtly or subtly, wanted to give moral ammunition to the colonial governments which were summarily imposing Western values and worldview on the subject peoples.
From Vedic Science To Vedanta, Subhash C. Kak
From Vedic Science To Vedanta, Subhash C. Kak
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Vedanta has often been studied without relating it to the Vedic system of knowledge. The reason behind this situation is the fashionable but wrong view that Vedic thought is "pre-scientific" and at best it represents "archaic modes of thought". But recent scholarship has shown that astronomy was one of the bases of the design of Vedic fire altars and an astronomical code has been discovered in the organization of the Rgveda. It is now being accepted that the Vedic people knew considerable astronomy that included the knowledge of planet periods. Knowledge of astronomy and the concomitant sciences provides the backdrop …
Book Review: "Population, Consumption, And The Environment: Religious And Secular Responses", Antony Berger
Book Review: "Population, Consumption, And The Environment: Religious And Secular Responses", Antony Berger
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Population, Consumption, and the Environment: Religious and Secular Responses, edited by Harold Coward.
Book Review: "India's Agony Over Religion", Harold Coward
Book Review: "India's Agony Over Religion", Harold Coward
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Gerald Larson's India's Agony Over Religion.
Book Review: "Shabda Shakti Sangam", Anand Amaladass
Book Review: "Shabda Shakti Sangam", Anand Amaladass
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Shabda Shakti Sangam edited by Vandana Mataji.
Briefly Noted
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Brief summaries of Gauri Ma: A Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and Seeing God Everywhere: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Living.
Book Review: "Majesty And Meekness: A Comparative Study Of Contrast And Harmony In The Concept Of God", Michael Stoeber
Book Review: "Majesty And Meekness: A Comparative Study Of Contrast And Harmony In The Concept Of God", Michael Stoeber
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Majesty and Meekness: A Comparative Study of Contrast and Harmony in the Concept of God by John B. Carman.
Meeting Information
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Information about the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies and its annual meetings.
Introductory Information And Introduction, Harold Coward
Introductory Information And Introduction, Harold Coward
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Information about the publication, including an editorial policy and editorial advisory board, and an introduction by the editor.
Texts Are Always With You: Christians And Their Bibles, R. S. Sugirtharajah
Texts Are Always With You: Christians And Their Bibles, R. S. Sugirtharajah
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
What Christians call the Bible is a cultural, ideological, ritual, and spiritual depository of a people who live din West Asia. Although Christians perceive it as the Book (in spite of the implied plural meaning in Greek), it is a composition of several books, embodying the collective and individual divine-human encounters of two communities - Jews and the early converts to the Jesus movement in the Mediterranean region. The Bible has two testaments, to which the adjectives "Old" and "New" are prefixed. These adjectival prefixes give the impression that the one is outdated, archaic, and no longer applicable, and the …
The Role Of Hindu Scripture In Salvation, William C. Allen, Bibhuti S. Yadav
The Role Of Hindu Scripture In Salvation, William C. Allen, Bibhuti S. Yadav
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
In this paper we reflect on the role of scripture in salvation in Hinduism and Christianity. We all know that differences among various Hindu scripturologies are severe and profound. Diversities of understandings of the nature and role of scripture in salvation abound no less within the various Christian traditions. There is no Hindu consensus regarding the scripture's role in salvation. Even within orthodox Hinduism the differences on this theme are fundamental. For instance. the Vedanta of Sankara reads the Vedas as descriptive of Brahman, the knowledge and realization of which constitutes moksa which Sankara equates with meta-material, meta-social, pure being. …
Saved By The Word: The Christian Understanding Of The Relationship Between Scripture And Salvation, Michael Deroche
Saved By The Word: The Christian Understanding Of The Relationship Between Scripture And Salvation, Michael Deroche
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Scripture and salvation -- from a Christian point of view, both are gifts from God. yet they are not of equal import. For Christianity salvation is fundamental: it is the goal of life, indeed it is life eternal. Scripture, on the other hand, is instrumental: it leads one to salvation. As the Christian scriptures themselves put it: "... the sacred writings ... are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Tim 3:15b).
Reginald Heber And Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Geoffrey Cook
Reginald Heber And Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Geoffrey Cook
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Hinduism and Christianity have lived closely together in parts of the Subcontinent since the Apostle Thomas's missionary visit in the first century of the Christian era. But in the last five centuries of direct European and South Asian contact that relationship has gained a Subcontinent-wide propinquity, and has often been quite competitive, for the meeting between India and Europe was between tradition and modernity.
Forest And Village: Popular Hindu-Christian Encounter, David C. Scott
Forest And Village: Popular Hindu-Christian Encounter, David C. Scott
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The realization that what is commonly spoken of as Hinduism is in reality an elite Brahmanical religion is so ubiquitous that there is no need to argue the point here. Similarly, Christianity has generally been understood in terms of classical Western theological and philosophical thought. This being the case, it is hardly surprising that until relatively recently what has been understood as the encounter and interaction of Christianity and Hinduism has been, in fact, an encounter and interaction of what we might speak of as the elite great traditions in both religious systems. Yet the fact remains that in India …
Viewpoint: Hindu-Christian "Studies": Some Confessions From The Boundaries, Fred W. Clothey
Viewpoint: Hindu-Christian "Studies": Some Confessions From The Boundaries, Fred W. Clothey
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
There are times I think the term Hindu-Christian "studies" or even Hindu-Christian "dialogue" is a misnomer and a fantasy. This is so for several reasons. For one thing, there is a long history in which such "study" or conversation has been a monologue, a one-way street or an interpretation by imposition. There has been too much shouting at each other from caves and not enough honesty, negotiation, and mutual respect of personhood on the boundaries between where peoples live. For another, such engagements are not and never again can be merely one on one discourses between persons with single identities. …
Book Review: "The Indian Christiad", Bettina Bäumer
Book Review: "The Indian Christiad", Bettina Bäumer
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of The Indian Christiad by Anand Amaladass and Richard Fox Young.
Book Review: "Practice And Theology Of Interreligious Dialogue. A Critical Study Of The Indian Christian Attempts Since Vatican Ii", Anand Amaladass
Book Review: "Practice And Theology Of Interreligious Dialogue. A Critical Study Of The Indian Christian Attempts Since Vatican Ii", Anand Amaladass
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Practice and Theology of Interreligious Dialogue. A Critical Study of the Indian Christian Attempts Since Vatican II by Jose Kuttianimattathil.
Book Review: "Die Symbolik Von Gift Und Nektar In Der Klassischen Indischen Literatur", Anand Nayak
Book Review: "Die Symbolik Von Gift Und Nektar In Der Klassischen Indischen Literatur", Anand Nayak
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Die Symbolik von Gift und Nektar in der klassischen indischen Literatur by Ira Stubbe-Diarra.
Book Review: "Rammohun Roy In Hindu And Christian Tradition: The Teape Lectures 1990", Ronald Neufeldt
Book Review: "Rammohun Roy In Hindu And Christian Tradition: The Teape Lectures 1990", Ronald Neufeldt
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Dermot Killingley's Rammohun Roy in Hindu and Christian Tradition: The Teape Lectures 1990.
Briefly Noted
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Brief summaries of Inter-Faith Dialogue and World Community and Current Dialogue.
Book Review: "The Divine Matrix: Creativity As Link Between East And West", Francis X. Clooney
Book Review: "The Divine Matrix: Creativity As Link Between East And West", Francis X. Clooney
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of The Divine Matrix: Creativity as Link Between East and West by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
Reports & News
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A collection of current reports and news, including Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Annual Meeting 1995, Report on the Symposium on Evil, Interfaith Dialogue - the South Carolina Experience, and News in Brief.
Scripture As A Source Of Knowledge In Hinduism, Anantanand Rambachan
Scripture As A Source Of Knowledge In Hinduism, Anantanand Rambachan
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
One of Wilfred Cantwell Smith's principal concerns in What is Scripture? is to highlight the variety of texts which are construed as scripture and the variety of attitudes which human history reveals towards such texts. We may begin by noting, for example, the inappropriateness of the term "scripture" (from scribere - to write) for the Vedas because of its emphasis on the written word as opposed to the word which is heard and preserved through oral transmission. The Vedas are more aptly referred to in Sanskrit as (that which is heard) or sabda (sound), and these terms correctly underline the …
A Response To The Symposium On Sri Dharampal's "Bharatiya Chitta Manas And Kala", Jitendra Bajaj, Mandyam Doddamane Srivivas
A Response To The Symposium On Sri Dharampal's "Bharatiya Chitta Manas And Kala", Jitendra Bajaj, Mandyam Doddamane Srivivas
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The symposium on Sri Dharampal's Bharatiya Chitta manas and Kala, organized by Prof. Fancis Clooney and carried in the last issue of the Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin (Vol. 8, 1995), is indeed a significant contribution to the debate Sri Dharampal's essay sought to initiate. We are grateful to Prof. Clooney and the four learned commentators who, with their diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, clearly grasped the essence and importance of Sri Dharampal's effort, which in brief is to help launch a new Indian enterprise to comprehend and re-assert the essential civilizational genius of India within the present-day reality of the …