Some Christian theological reasons for promoting a non-communal expression of the Christian faith and community. But the separation of the two levels should not be considered in any total sense.
Religious Fundamentalism And Indian Secularism - the Present
One can point to the politics of the Congress or the Left to illustrate this. Recently H.V.Seshadri, the General Secretary of the RSS issued a comment on the RSS' call to the minorities.
Meanings of Being a
He was Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches and Governor of Nagaland.
Secular State: A Critical Evaluation
A Christian
Anthropological Approach To Globalisation
Technology, Culture and Religion
It has been said that old people dream of the past and young people see visions of the future. I understand that this is the 51st year of the inception of the MBBS program and the 46th. The three themes emphasized in the tradition of the college since its foundation are: modern medical technology, humanistic culture of service and justice to the poor and the community.
It is the contemporary situation of the relationship between modern technology, humanistic culture and religious pluralism that I. These are challenges for the current generation of young people who want to contribute to shaping the future of humanity. There is no doubt that the scientific and technological revolution of modern times is one
We have sought to preserve the unity of India as a nation-state in such a situation through the idea of a secular state.
Primal Vision And Modernization
This book is jointly published by Christava Sahhya Samhhi (OSS), Tiruvalla, Kerela and The Indian Society for Promoting Christian. I must add that such a historical approach is not wrong, provided it is clearly understood that self-determination and. The pressure of the church in a society should help reduce the tension between spiritual freedom and social.
Our concern in this study is with the spiritual vision behind modernity and the nature of critique. The spiritual vision of modernity as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of reality, that is, progress through. John Taylor's Primal Vision, a study of African culture speaks of "an unbroken total unity" of the cosmos as characteristic of African spirituality.
In it there is a vision of a spiritual continuum within which the dead and the living, natural objects, spirits and gods, the individual, clan and tribe, animals, plants,.
Gospel to the Tribal People
Message to the Tribal Rally in Ranchi on November 2, 1995 on the occasion of their celebration of the 150th anniversary of the coming of the Gospel to. I consider it a privilege to be invited to participate in your celebration of the 150th. My involvement with the tribal peoples of India began in the sixties when as Director of the Christian Institute for the Study of.
Mountain Province of the Philippines; the participants were Bishop Lakra from Chotanagpur and Pastor Zarema from Mizoram. Today we celebrate the arrival of four missionaries of the Gossner Mission in Ranchi in 1845. It is quite clear to all historians of modern India that the story is spiritual and socio-political.
In the struggle for the tribal people's land rights, Christian missions brought justice to them and that too without being fully aware of it.
Gospel And Secular Culture
In fact, these ideologies of inevitable human progress, whether in Liberalism or Marxism, had the character of a secularization of the Kingdom of God envisioned by the Christian gospel as the goal of history. This alienation between secular culture and the gospel led to the dehumanization of the forces of secular culture and turned Christianity into a kind of individualistic pietism or a. Between them, the Christian understanding of man and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was rendered irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were only left to be interpreted within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at most linked a Deistic belief has. with a mechanical view of the world and a self-redemptive idea of history makes for a.
Significantly, the preamble to the Constitution of India spells out the transformation of Indian society in the light of the values of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (taken from the French Revolution) and Justice (probably derived from the Soviet Union) as the goals of secular India. In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian ecumenism has abandoned the traditional pietism of the Church. and negativist approaches to. After religious pluralism and ecological issues have been recognized as contemporary realities, the ecumenical movement has expanded its internal and external dialogues to include adherents of both ideological and religious faiths who have.
Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World" has been of decisive importance in the ecumenical approach of a positive nature to the redefinition of secular forces and values.
Higher Education in Kerala
- Conceptual Shift in Higher Education - A Critique
- Self-Financing Higher Education- its Cultural Effects
It is actually an extension in the field of higher education of the government's policy. The word "socialist" which was added later to indicate the character of the Indian Republic only clarified this. The shift today is primarily in the ideology of nation-state leadership and as a consequence the objective of education.
However, I need to clarify my statement above about "so-called means that embody but hide false goals under neutrality". But the realization of this truth is only healthy if it requires an appropriate response to the challenge of the situation. Social development has already contributed to the economic development of the country and he has a long quote from his previous writing confirming that it is possible to develop Kerala's economic growth model based on his social development model with the new National Strategy.
The classical economists are responsible for the general disenchantment of the Kerala people with the Kerala development model.
The Power That Sustains Us
And secondly, they say, there is people's awakening to their self-identity, to the search for their unique self-. But it is not only to satisfy their hunger that they ask for bread, but the material thing itself is taken up as part of the awakening to the dignity of their personality. So we ourselves are part of the Establishment, even if it is partly the enemy outside.
Anti-religion, protestant atheism, are all in the direction of a positive fulfillment of the new spiritual awakening to justice. What we have in common is this commitment to transforming the world around us. The answer to it is an essential aspect of belief in the Power that sustains human struggle.
But it is not blind to those who see it as the sight of the self, the vision of God through the self in depth.
Search For a New Ideology of Struggle For Social Justice With Eco-
Towards an Alternative Paradigm
The present must be denied in the name of the future, in such a way that the negation carries within it the presence of the future now. Of course, the fundamental central elements in the emergence of the counterculture and the germ of the future society are the forces released by self-awakening and the struggle for self-identity. He has stated categorically, “The forces that can recreate Indian society can emerge from the oppressed cultures of the lower castes, outcastes and the.
But there are traditional elements in the past history of Indian peoples that can do this. Kappen tells the churches, "The primary mission of the church community is to create basile (kingdom) communities" (p. 25). The blood of Jesus must be mixed with the blood of shudras, outcasts, tribes, and today's dissidents” (p. 27).
In this process we will build a composite culture "characterized by the tension unity of the different religious-cultural.
The Emerging Political Scenario: the People’s Search For an
The current international situation is characterized by the dominance of the "ideology" of the free market economy. It is the ideology of the market that has been revived and enforced globally through the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization by the economic powers of the uni-polar world. The capitalist enclave, operating through the state bureaucracy combines, continues to increase the incentives of the middle class through privatization and.
More and more of the rural population is being attracted to urban complexes for non-. This weakens the side of the marginal communities in the conflicts between commercial interests and survival. Will there be a demand in the year for the general elections that the state must be democratic enough to respond to the people's wishes.
In this light, the new National Alliance of People's Movements in India has significance as it has the potential to become the basis of a long-term alternative in our country.
The Christian
Contribution to an Indian Philosophy of Being and Becoming Human
Now that the destructive aspects of modernization have become prominent in the world of the second half of the 20th century, questions are being asked about a more holistic philosophy and an alternative paradigm of. modernization are raised universally. Communion/fellowship is sacramentally symbolized by the communion of the Church of Christ at the Lord's Table. It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of.
In fact, the nature of the penultimate historical goal of humanization within the hope of ultimate redemption is the theme of moral philosophy throughout history. Neo-Hinduism has engaged in a similar endeavor to relate the historical and the ultimate in the context of the impact of modernity. It is this compartmentalization of the ultimate spiritual and the historical social that Swami Vivekananda denounced as Pharisaic.
Conversely, the ways in which other religions and secular ideologies grapple with the truth and meaning of Jesus Christ's humanity can help develop a truly Indigenous Indian Christology.
