MM Thomas - Life, Legacy and Theology

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THEOLOGY OF MADATHILPARAMPIL MAMMEN THOMAS Thomas maintained that the world outside is raising these questions, as are some of the many members of the Council. The distinctions between the center, the radius, and periphery become increasingly important as the Council seeks, under the mandate of the Uppsala Assembly, to enlarge the circle, on the one hand, and to become more militant, on the other. These questions are increasingly important since the Council now includes not only churches with western Protestant traditions but also most of the Orthodox churches, and many churches in Latin America, Asia, Africa (deeply oriented toward African culture), and those of Pentecostal spirituality. This expansion has brought into the Council the human hopes and despair of the wide world in the midst of which the churches struggle to witness to their faith and life in Christ. The Council has been greatly enlarged in program and membership. Along with this development has come a new sense that the Council should not only engage in study but that its churches should seek to define more precisely-in the light of the central faith-their common goals as regards unity, witness, and service, so that the Council will be an instrument of the churches for mutual help to reach their goals. Dr. Thomas proceeded to emphasize the implications of the Council's Christological center and its theological-ethical basis in the struggle for human community at the local and world levels. This theological basis implies a catholicity that is the criterion not only for the Christian community but for the life and unity of all mankind. It implies, too, that churches which deny the ethics of world community may be considered guilty of heresy.” 127
THEOLOGY OF MADATHILPARAMPIL MAMMEN THOMAS THEOLOGY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT By Hans Schwarz A Christ –Centered Ecuminical Theology: M.M.Thomas M.M.Thomas (1916-96) has been perhaps the most prominent ecumenical theologican of India, though a layperson. He belonged to the Mar Thoma church and was its first fulltime secretary in the youth department, beginning in 1945. From 1947 to 1953 he was on the staff of the World Student Christian Federation in Geneva, and after that was involved in ecumenical ventures in Geneva, serving from 1968 to 1975 as the chairperson of the Central Committee of the WCC. He was also active on the Indian scene, having moved from an associate director to the director of the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (CISRS). From 1989 to 1994 he was governor of Nagaland, a state in northeast India. As with all Indian Christian theologians, it is clear for Thomas that “the context of Indian Christian theology is the dialogue between Christ 128
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