Thanks. There would be a lot of this to try and assimilate.That is correct; I’m not certain on the exact dates. However, in and out of Communion with Rome a few times, then for about 100 years in Communion with the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch, who interestingly went in and out of Communion with Rome.
Astonishing. The St Thomas Christians seem as fissiparous as their brethren elsewhere. Have you a link online to the Tovey article, or do I have to pay money? My free academic links to such stuff are well expired and my fortunes are slight, but in a good cause …Believe what you want.
Claudius Buchanan offers to translate the Bible into the native language, but interestingly omits to include the Deuterocanonical texts - the Peshitto is at Cambridge if you want to examine it to see which books were given.
You’ll want to learn Malayalam to hear if from Rev. Fr. Reji Mathew, ThD, Dean of Studies at the Orthodox Seminary in Kerala: youtu.be/qBiM2cHB9e8
CMS missionaries, along with the Col. Munroe, the British Resident of Travancore also gave financial incentives, for celibate monastic Orthodox clergy to marry, see:
Philip Tovey, “Abraham Malpan and the Amended Syrian Liturgy of CMS,” Indian Church History Review 29/1 (June 1995): 52
They further created the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, by splitting the Orthodox Church in Kerala by fiat; while also “missionizing” among the Syriac Christians to make many of them western rite Anglicans.
For further proof that the Bible used by Syriac Christians in Kerala was the same to all is found in the book by His Grace Mor Dionysius Geevarghese of Vattasseril in his book titled Quintessence of Religious Doctrine.
The story is starting to make me think of Anglicans, yes.Astonishing. The St Thomas Christians seem as fissiparous as their brethren elsewhere. Have you a link online to the Tovey article, or do I have to pay money? My free academic links to such stuff are well expired and my fortunes are slight, but in a good cause …
Yes, I guess that’s a fair point too.Gandhi is, to many Westerners, an iconic figure embodying virtue (as is Mother Teresa). Hence, for Christians his “failure” to convert is something that needs to be “explained.” Telling stories about bad Christian behavior to Gandhi gives Christians a convenient explanation for why a figure they admire did not become Christian,
Maybe inadequately catechized.Yes, I guess that’s a fair point too.
It reminds me of when someone hears about someone leaving Catholicism and remarks “Well, I’ll bet that he only left because of the priest abuse scandals” or “Well, he was probably never a good Catholic anyway.”
A learning opportunity, potentially.Not my field, either. My period, and I’m familiar with a few of the actors, but not my theatre. Makes it intriguing, though.
Yeah, I’ll make that example number three, “He probably never even learned the faith to begin with.”Maybe inadequately catechized.
I like to compare our community to the Ukrainians - they mainly have the UOC-MP, UOC-KP, UAOC, UGCC, and a Ukrainian Lutheran community, not to mention the Western Rites; we mainly have the MSOC, MOSC, MSCC, Marthoma (Anglicans)-MISC, as well as a smaller mix of East Syriac Rite Churches and a myriad of Western Rites.Astonishing. The St Thomas Christians seem as fissiparous as their brethren elsewhere. Have you a link online to the Tovey article, or do I have to pay money? My free academic links to such stuff are well expired and my fortunes are slight, but in a good cause …