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Issue 87 : Christianity in India: A Faith of Many Colors

Originally published in 2005
Issue 87
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Table of Contents
  • Edinburgh 1910: A Faith for All the World
  • Interesting facts about Christianity in India
    Steven Gertz et al.
  • Jennifer Trafton
  • Rediscovered Bach aria, buried Saxon church, and digitizing one of the world's oldest New Testament manuscripts
    Ted Olsen
  • Jeremy Wells
  • Jesus Was Her Guru
    If you don't know the inner strength of an Indian woman with a divine call, you haven't met Pandita Ramabai.
    Keith J. White
  • The first evangelical missionary to India set out to prove that the gospel does not destroy culture but transforms it from within.
    Daniel Jeyaraj
  • How indigenous Christian movements radically transformed entire communities.
    Robert Eric Frykenberg
  • Robert Eric Frykenberg
  • Catholicism emerged out of decline and disarray to become the largest Christian community in India.
    Felix Wilfred
  • How do Christian beliefs relate to Indian philosophy and culture? These Indian thinkers came up with different answers.
    Richard Fox Young and Timothy C. Tennent
  • Combining the lifestyle of an ascetic "holy man" with the devotion of a Christian visionary, Sadhu Sundar Singh became for many a symbol of authentically Indian Christianity.
    Timothy Dobe
  • For India's "untouchable" Christians, relating their faith to the surrounding culture was no simple matter.
    Susan Billington Harper
  • British missionary John Williams pioneered the spread of Christianity in the South Pacific by employing the zeal of Polynesian converts.
    Steven Gertz
  • For the Glory of God
    Patrick Kavanaugh
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