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A 6 page paper about Christianity in the Third World with emphasis on India. Using student-provided sources, the essay focuses on the works of George Soares-Prabhu. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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format for that reason. Also, I do not know where the Eucharist comes into the theme since none of the information your provided made a connection between the Eucharist and
social change in India.] Many outsides think that Christianity is new in India (Hedlund, 2004). That isnt true. At the same time, within India, Christianity is perceived as
a foreign religion (Hedlund, 2004). That is not true, either. Christianity in India began with the St. Thomas Christians of Malabar (Hedlund, 2004). Thomas Christians became Syrianized with the connection
between Christianity in India and Syrian-Persian Christianity beginning in the third or fourth century (Hedlund, 2004). A dependency developed, which caused everything Christian in India to become East-Syrian (Hedlund, 2004).
It preserved a strong tradition but it prevented Christianity in India from developing an Indian Christian culture (Hedlund, 2004). From this brief introduction, we find that Christianity is neither new
in India nor is it a foreign religion. Many have written about Christianity in India; this essay emphasizes the writings of George Soares Prabhu, a Jesuit, a liberation theologist and
a prolific writer. Soares Prabhu (DATE), like many other scholars, pointed out that the reality of South Asia is "an overwhelming poverty, and its multifaceted religiosity" (Heredia, 1996). Soares
Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even religions thrown out of their own native country (Vol.
4. Chapter 14, p. 214). It was not long after his death in 1995 that Prabhus work and ideas and especially his contributions to Christian theology began to be viewed
as path-breaking (Gomes, 2000). Soares Prabhu "proposed uniquely Indian approach to the Bible that would combine an Indian social reading in socio-economic terms with an Indian religious reading, in which
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