Christian Reflection On Hinduism
Christian Reflection on Hinduism
Introduction:
This paper brings special features on the Christians reflections on Hinduism and reflects between the Hinduism and Christianity in the past or early history of Hinduism.
Hindu Christian Relationship
Christianity has a long history of relating to Vedic religion in South Asia, though it is only in the modern period that explicit Hindu-Christian interaction can be documented. “ Hinduism is an actable abbreviation for family of culturally similar tradition “a convenient catch-all for a vast variety of religious cults and sects, regional and local deities and devotees, deferring philosophies, spiritual disciplines, religious practices, guru cults and more. [1]
Christian response to Hinduism
Historically Christian has interacted with Hindus from the earliest advent of Christianity in India. According to local mythology original convert of Thomas included some from the Brahmin community in Kerala. Claiming descent from Namboodiri Brahmins convert has conferred high caste status upon the Thomas Christians. This respectable social status “enabled them to be in harmony with their pre-dominantly Hindu neighbors” Caste related practices , customs regarding food and occupation, modes of dress, faith in horoscopes, ceremonial bathing, rituals and festivals developed in largely in Hindu categories. Church architecture borrows simultaneously from Jewish Synagogue and Hindu temples with elements of Hinduism Christianity and the Syrian tradition in juxtaposition. Christian rites of passage likewise reveal the use of ritual substances such as coconuts, oil lamps and rice (commonly use by Hindu) but with a distinctions Christian imprint.
Conversion movements were an aspect of socio-economic and cultural change extending beyond the Church. Azariah devised new indigenous Christian liturgies, festival art forms borrow from Hindu and other sources. The Dornakal Cathedral incorporated aspects of Hindu and Muslim architecture, a “dramatic
Introduction:
This paper brings special features on the Christians reflections on Hinduism and reflects between the Hinduism and Christianity in the past or early history of Hinduism.
Hindu Christian Relationship
Christianity has a long history of relating to Vedic religion in South Asia, though it is only in the modern period that explicit Hindu-Christian interaction can be documented. “ Hinduism is an actable abbreviation for family of culturally similar tradition “a convenient catch-all for a vast variety of religious cults and sects, regional and local deities and devotees, deferring philosophies, spiritual disciplines, religious practices, guru cults and more. [1]
Christian response to Hinduism
Historically Christian has interacted with Hindus from the earliest advent of Christianity in India. According to local mythology original convert of Thomas included some from the Brahmin community in Kerala. Claiming descent from Namboodiri Brahmins convert has conferred high caste status upon the Thomas Christians. This respectable social status “enabled them to be in harmony with their pre-dominantly Hindu neighbors” Caste related practices , customs regarding food and occupation, modes of dress, faith in horoscopes, ceremonial bathing, rituals and festivals developed in largely in Hindu categories. Church architecture borrows simultaneously from Jewish Synagogue and Hindu temples with elements of Hinduism Christianity and the Syrian tradition in juxtaposition. Christian rites of passage likewise reveal the use of ritual substances such as coconuts, oil lamps and rice (commonly use by Hindu) but with a distinctions Christian imprint.
Conversion movements were an aspect of socio-economic and cultural change extending beyond the Church. Azariah devised new indigenous Christian liturgies, festival art forms borrow from Hindu and other sources. The Dornakal Cathedral incorporated aspects of Hindu and Muslim architecture, a “dramatic