[For more, check Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and the ‘Construction’ of Religion ] Let me just focus on one important and one not-so-important claim from Will Sweetman’s article “Hinduism” and the history…
Read moreAre Indian Christians not bound by Christian Theology? –S.N.Balagangadhara
You say: Thus when one says that many Indian Christians are pluralistic … it cannot be refuted simply by saying, well Christian doctrine fundamentally cannot be pluralistic — because all…
Read moreChristological dilemma and “who is a Christian”
1. Christians of all hue agree that the figure of Christ is central to the religion that Christianity is. This figure is “the promised one”, the “messiah”, the “anointed…
Read moreSecularized Christian theme: interests of a social institution/Christian Church
About the state, state action and the issue of public interest. There are multiple problems here, which I am only slowly beginning to recognize. I will share two such problems…
Read moreSecularized Christian Theme: Moral Certainty and Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Larry Laudan’s “How Reasonable is ‘Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt’?” (published in the journal Legal Theory), shows how the principle of proof beyond a reasonable doubt is utterly unreasonable when one analyzes…
Read moreSecularized Christian Belief: Religion is a cultural/human universal
One of these so-called secular accounts that are in fact Christian is the belief that all cultures have a religion. It is simply a secularization of the Christian belief that…
Read moreThe religion of secular state: deChristianized Christianity –S.N.Balagangadhara
Assuming that the distinction I proposed between civic tolerance and religious tolerance is acceptable, let us proceed further to analyze the notion of civic tolerance more closely. (I am simply…
Read moreOn Rajiv’s history-centrism—S.N.Balagangadhara
Can history-centrism cause some religion or the other to be belief-based? The notion of “history-centrism” is too vague to allow a serious answer. In so far as this refers to…
Read moreInclusivism, exclusivism, and Ignorance of heathens
Words like “inclusivism”, “exclusivism” etc. are not a part of my terminology. They are not only imprecise but also misleading. They have been used mostly as meta-descriptions of the stance…
Read moreIs tolerant Christianity a contradiction in terms?
1. Even if one insists (wrongly in my view) that I am suggesting that Alex Alexander is not a Christian, there are two ways of looking at the object of…
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