Sentences with phrase «madras christian»

This technique was developed in conjunction with mathematicians in Madras Christian College, India.

In December 1938 nearly 500 delegates from around the world gathered at Madras Christian College in Tambaram, South India, for the third world conference of the International Missionary Council.

Instead, I wanted to reach Tambaram in time to start the summer term and my year at Madras Christian College.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

At Madras Christian College, students and faculty spoke of the explosion of independent Bible study and prayer groups that coexist in tension with the traditional churches.

The same longing for an experience of God's presence is expressed in a prayer by a twentieth - century Indian Christian leader, Chandra Devanesen, who was the first Indian to be head of Madras Christian College — a missionary college dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, at which I studied for a year in the 1960s:

This hope was born in me one very hot day as I went for the first time with other students from Madras Christian College to help at a Leprosy Clinic.

My interest in other faiths led me, after university, to study for a year at Madras Christian College, where I tried to learn something about Hinduism and Indian philosophy.

Dr. C. T. K. Chari, my professor of philosophy at Madras Christian College never went to a temple.

By the way, they also recommended cutting some denominational colleges to set up one or two first rate educational institutions of their conception managed by the Christian missions and churches in unity and the Tambaram version of the Madras Christian College was one result of it.

A. G. Hogg, the principal of Madras Christian College, raised these questions over 50 years ago at the Tambaram World Mission Conference.

Not exact matches

Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Orgins, (New York: Cross Roads) Felix Wilfred, From the Dusty Soil, (University of Madras: Department of Christian Studies, 1995), p. 258f.

H.S. Wilson, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1988.

Recently there was a Court judgment in Madras which granted the contention of a person who affirmed that he was a Christian by faith without change of community by conversion and therefore entitled to benefits ofthe scheduled castes of the Hindu community.

The challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism — Radhakrishnan's own faith — impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.»

And in India and Sri Lanka, Christians have increasingly cooperated with those of other faiths, in part to show that their primary aim is not conversion, wrote Butler University religion professor Chad Bauman and University of Madras religion professor James Ponniah.

(R. H. S. Boyd, An Introduction to Indian Christian Theology Madras, CLS, 1969, p. 9.)

In «My Search for Truth,» the moving autobiographical sketch which he contributed to a volume entitled Religion in Transition (1937), he reports how the challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism, his own faith, impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.

Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, New York, in another article in the Christian Century entitled, «What Stanley Jones Missed at Madras» tried to answer the criticism of Jones.38 Van Dusen pointed out that Stanley Jones was guilty of an «elementary confusion of thought» in his discussion of Kingdom and Church.

«This work in this new day», said the Madras Conference, «must be undertaken by a partnership between the older and the younger churches, by a pooling of all resources and by cooperation of all the Christians».47

Dravidian Gods in Modern Hinduism: A Study of the Local and Village Deities of Southern India (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1925), p. 25.

In a survey the Gurukul research Centre made, it came to light that there were many persons in the city of Madras who had accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour but had chosen to continue in their own religious cultural and caste communities without conversion to the Christian community.

In an article for the Christian Century entitled, «Where Madras Missed its Way», he wrote:

Based on a talk given at a Consultation on Christian Contribution to Indian Philosophy held at the Catholic Seminary in Madras in 1994 under the joint auspices of the Seminary and the Indian Philosophic Association.

Of these, two aspects received special attention at Madras, namely, the relationship between the Christian mission and non-Christian religions, and the rediscovery of the church as the agent of the evangel.

Madras: Christian Literature Society.

At the meeting of the (Protestant) International Missionary Council at Madras in A.D. 1938, among the regularly appointed delegates non-Occidentals were practically as numerous as Occidentals, the first time at one of these world - wide Christian gatherings where this has been the case.

(University of Madras: Department of Christian Studies, 1995) p. 258 f.

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