 | Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context. It is set in the larger context of the exceptional growth of the church in the non-Western world during the twentieth century, which has been characterized by a diversity of localized cultural expressions. It recognizes that the center of Christian influence numerically and theologically is shifting wouthward to Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Increasingly, it is found in nontraditional (non-Catholic, non-Protestant, non-Syrian) churches of indigenous-independent variety, frequently charismatic, not necessarily Pentecostal, but of substantial evangelical and cultural diversity. Predominantly, it is a church of the poor. It affirms the reality that wherever the gospel goes, it takes root in the local culture. Roger E. Hedlund is director emeritus of Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies. He is the retired managing editor of Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research and chief editor of Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity (2012). He taught missiology at Union Biblical Seminary (Yavatmal/Pune) 1974-78 and taught mission research at Serampore College (West Bengal) 1994-97. |
