{"id":5534,"date":"2025-12-30T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=5534"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:38:40","slug":"hinduism-and-christianity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=5534","title":{"rendered":"Hinduism and Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Vol. VII
Opera Omnia
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The volume Hinduism and Christianity<\/em> focuses mainly on the dialogue between the two religious traditions to which the author belonged from birth and to which he remained faithful throughout his life, while not presuming to study exhaustively their many dimensions. Their relationship may be likened to that of two lovers who speak different languages. They love each other and, through this love, they have found out that they share the same goal and want the same thing. Yet when they try to speak they cannot understand each other. Each one must first learn the language of the other. They may not say the same thing, and certainly they do not say ‘the same thing’ in the same way. Each of them has a perception of something that deeply touches both, without being able to express it. But they can love each other, help each other, find common ground in practical life, be patient and begin to learn about each other.
Today, after centuries of separation, Christianity and Hinduism are coming together again and are attempting to share their respective experiences. Christians may see their destination in the future, Hindus in the present, but each see it in terms of the complete, realised human person.
The book has two sections, the first of which features one of Panikkar’s most well-known writings, The Unknown Christ of Hinduism<\/em>.
The central theme, which has frequently been misunderstood, is the as yet unknown aspect of Christ which is present not only in Christianity but also in other religions, and that these may therefore help to give us a more universal vision.
The second section is dedicated to the ecclesiology of India as an example of interculturation and describes various aspects of the encounter between these two religions.<\/p>

INDEX OF ORIGINAL TEXTS IN VOLUME VII<\/p>

Introduction. Original article: \u201cIn Christ There is Neither Hindu nor Christian: Perspectives on Hindu-Christian Dialogue\u201d, in C. Wei-hsun Fu and G.E. Spiegler (ed.), \u201cReligious Issues and Interreligious Dialogues\u201d, Greenwood, New York 1989, pp. 475-490.<\/p>

The Unknown Christ of Hinduism,<\/em> based on the completely revised edition by the author Il Cristo sconosciuto dell\u2019induismo<\/em>, Jaca Book, Milano 2008. First edition: The Unknown Christ of Hinduism<\/em>, DLT, London 1964.<\/p>

\u201cThe Integration of Indian Philosophical and Religious Thought\u201d, in \u00abThe Clergy Monthly Supplement\u00bb, May 1958, pp. 64-68.<\/p>

\u201cThe Mystery of Worship in Hinduism and Christianity\u201d.<\/em> Or. <\/em>ed. Le myst\u00e8re du culte dans l\u2019hindouisme et le christianisme<\/em>, Cerf, Paris 1970.<\/p>

\u201cThe Problem of Justice in Hind\u00a5-Christian Dialogue\u201d. Or. ed. El problema de la just\u00edcia en el di\u00e0leg hind\u00fa-cristi\u00e0<\/em>, in VV.AA., Religions de la terra i sacralitat del pobre. Aportaci\u00f3 al di\u00e0leg interreligi\u00f3s<\/em>, Claret (col. Cristianisme i Just\u00edcia), Barcelona 1997, pp. 107-135.<\/p>

\u201cConfrontation between Hinduism and Christ\u201d, in \u00abNew Blackfriars\u00bb, LX, 584 (January 1969), pp. 197-204, intended by the author as a possible introduction to The Unknown Christ of <\/em>Hinduism, revised edition, Bangalore 1983.<\/p>

\u201cEkklesia and Mandiram. Two Symbols of Human Spirituality\u201d [Foreword], in \u00abStudies in Formative Spirituality\u00bb, XI, 3 (November 1990), pp. 277-284.<\/p>

\u201cThe Distorted Face of the Church in India. God of the Poor and the Poor of God\u201d. Or. ed. \u201cDas verzerrte Gesicht der Kirche in Indien\u201d, in R. Panikkar, Kerygma und Indien<\/em>, Reich, Hamburg 1967, pp. 19-27.<\/p>

\u201cIndic Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism from the Perspective of Interculturation”, in K. Pathil (ed.), Religious Pluralism, ISPCK, Delhi 1991, pp. 252-299.<\/p>

\u201cThe Dream of an Indian Ecclesiology\u201d, in G. van Leeuwen (ed.), Searching for an Indian Ecclesiology<\/em>, ATC, Bangalore 1984, pp. 24-54.<\/p>

\u201cIndian Theology. A Theological Mutation\u201d, in Theologizing in India<\/em>, M. Amaladoss, T.K. John, G. Gispert-Sauch (ed.), TPI, Bangalore 1981, pp. 23-42.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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