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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Early in 1978 we had the privilege of inviting the various Ambassadors from all the countries present in Yemen to our house to meet Mother. Missionaries of Charity has now three homes in the Yemen - Hodeidah, Sanaa and Taiz - and at the entrance of each of the homes is the painting "Praying Hands" which I was asked by Mother to paint for her. We will miss her. We pay our homage of love at this time and extends our condolences to all the sisters and brothers of the Missionaries of Charity. The Ninan Family. Prof. M.M.Ninan Mrs. Ponnamma Ninan Premeela Ninan Anil Ninan Preethy Ninan Ajit Ninan 250
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ASHRAM MOVEMENTS In the earlier chapters we have concentrated mainly onto the development of Christianity in the Malabar Coast after the Mahabali Period. This is because the Malabar coast had direct connection with the Churches in the Greco Roman world - the Roman and the Antiochian tradition. Soon after the seperation of the Nasranis of Malankara and the two sects -Saivites and Vaishnavites - who were apostazised under the influence of the Mani of Syria and later Gnostic sages of India. As a result the gap between the two became large enough to form distinct religions. The latter merging with other local religons formed the Hindu religons. They were not yet considered as a single religion until the time of British. While the coming of the Syrian Christian immigrants to kerala made the Christianity in this area as the Syrian Christians since the form of worship and traditions were all borrowed from Syrians. Not only that the form and traditions of the original Christianity was fogotten, they were intentionally distorted and destroyed by the Brahminic migration and the subsequent terrorism of the Brahmins conquered all the malankara area. Yet they could not shatter their faith. After another ten centuries following Islamic invasions, came the Colonial invasions. These opened up a large influx of foreigners for trade and openned up an influx of Christian missionns - Portugese, French, Dutch and finally the English. Since these people could not recognize the religion of the rest of India, they classified them under three head - Christians, Islam and all the rest as Hinduism. Even though they were woshipping all sorts of different gods, they were all clubbed together as Hinduism as a complex religion. This suited the Hindu people in that it gave them a new identity. The theology of OM, the Upanishads and the Sanatana Dharma became the identity of Hinduism and no more connected to the Christianity. Several Christian missionaries and other evangelists reached India along with the colonising capitalism. The missionary methods usually followed the "Mission compound method." In this method the missionaries remained exclusively alien and lived in their own culture within the compound and preached reaching out side. Cultural barriers meant that those who came in faith transformed and immitated the culture of the missionaries. In fact this is what happenned in Malankara where the living style, worship method and liturgy followed the Syrians. This came because the original Thomas Way was hijacked by the Saivites and the Vaishanvites by syncretising local religions and war gods. By the time of colonial era, the original symbols and worhsips forms were totally taken over by the so called non-existent "Hinduism" fragments. When the Roman Catholics came they brought with their faith, their ways of worship and living style. They evidently confused religion with culture as is made evident in the Udayamperoor Synod decrees. 251
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