A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707

by Stephen Neill

• ISBN13: 9780521548854
• ISBN10: 0521548853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Christians form the third largest religious community in India. How has this come about? There are many studies of separate groups: but there has so far been no major history of the three large groups - Roman Catholic, Protestant and Thomas Christians (Syrians). This work attempts to meet the need for such a history. It goes right back to the beginning and traces the story through the ups and downs of at least fifteen centuries. It includes careful studies of the political and social background and of the non-Christian reactions to the Christian message. The narration is non-technical and should present few difficulties to the thoughtful reader; the more technical matters are dealt with in notes and appendices. This book will be of interest to all students of Church History and will also prove fascinating to many who are concerned with the development of Christianity as a world religion and in the dialogue between different forms of faith.

Table of Contents

Preface

The spelling of Indian names

Abbreviations

Maps

The Indian background

Christianity comes to India

From medieval to modern

Christians in the Indian Middle Age

Europe and Asia

contact and conflict

Beginnings of mission

The jesuits and the Indian church

Akbar and the jesuits

Rome and the Thomas Christians

Lights and shadows

India in the Seventeenty Century

The mission of Mathurai

The Thomas Christians again

Other Roman Catholic missions

Non-Roman Catholic Christianity in India

Appendices

Notes

Select bibliographies

Index

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