Bhakti Traditions Research Articles

Bhakti Tradition and Modernization: The Case of Lingayatism

Bhakti Tradition and Modernization: The Case of Lingayatism

Bhakti Tradition and Modernization: The Case of Lingayatism

Bhakti Tradition and Modernization: The Case of Lingayatism

Indian Christian Thinking in Relation to Christ

The rapidly deepening river of Indian christological thought is fed by a number of streams. The main current is of necessity the biblical witness, which has to be expounded afresh in every country and age. To this are added the various ecclesiastical channels by which theological thought has reached India; the Syrian in the South, and the many types of Western theology which have always been influential, and still continue to be so. From the other bank there comes the stream of Indian culture, in particular the philosophical systems of Sankara and Ramanuja, and the bhakti tradition of devotion to a personal God. To all these is added, like the rain, the continual influence of the Holy Spirit, who, in India as elsewhere, is ever drawing from what is Christ's and making it known to men (John 16.14). There has therefore been in India, as one might expect, a departure from some of the traditional christological formulations of the West.