TY  - GEN
A1  - Chowgule, Ashok
T1  - A modern Hindu concept of inter-religious dialogue
T2  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur
N2  - Dialogue has become a fashionable word in the theological circles for quite some time now. However, there is a need to review what has been achieved so far. If it is significant, we should then review how much religious tension has been reduced so far. If it is not much, why has there been no progress. In this note I will deal with the issues relating to Hindu-Christian dialogue. I am using Christianity only as a reference point, and the issues raised do have a wider context as well. As far as Hindu-Christian dialogue is concerned, I am of the opinion that there has been hardly any progress all these years. Many academics and theologians have been involved in the exercise so far. The whole literature, over a long period of time, seems to follow a familiar pattern – a discussion on the theory of the dialogue, what should be included in a dialogue, who should and should not be involved in a dialogue, and ends with a lament that there is so very little progress. The problem, according to me, is that the dialogue does not even consider a need to discuss what is the basic difference between Hinduism and Christianity, and an inquiry into whether these come in the way of communal harmony. A dialogue is really not necessary if we are to discuss only what is similar between the two systems. ...
T3  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 71 
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/474
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-50081
UR  - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm
SN  - 1434-5935
N1  - This lecture was delivered at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main on 27th of October 2004
IS  - 71
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -