A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED INDIAN PARADIGMS OF CHRISTOLOGY FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE TO DEVELOP A PNEUMATOLOGICAL CHRISTOLOGY FOR INDIA
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2019
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DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCED THEOLOGICAL STUDIES SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCES, CENTRE FOR ADVANCED THEOLOGICAL STUDIES ALLAHABAD, U. P., INDIA
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A study of Indian Christian theology reveals that the majority of Indian interpretations of Jesus Christ reflect a tendency which is more Hinduistic, predominantly advaitic. Hence, this dissertation addresses this central issue by critically analyzing Indian Christological interpretations of prominent thinkers and theologians, namely Raimundo Panikkar, Stanley J. Samartha and M. M. Thomas from a Pentecostal perspective, and develops a contextually relevant model, a Pneumatological Christology for India.
Having introduced the issues in Indian interpretation and on reviewing the relevant literature, chapter two undertakes a critical assessment of the Christologies of these key Indian theologians. The trajectory of Indian Christological interpretations affirms that there is a need for a revised Christology for India. Hence, this study analyzes the Christological interpretations and outlines their presuppositions and perspectives on the Holy Spirit; thus proposes a Pneumatological Christology, an appropriate and relevant model for the Indian context.
Chapter three discusses the rationale for a Pneumatological theology of religions. It evaluates Amos Yong‘s distinctive quest and foundational Pneumatology, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen‘s justification of Pneumatology as a theological discipline and Church as charismatic koinonia, and Christina Manohar‘s Spirit Christology. Effectively, Yong, Kärkkäinen, and Manohar have given their due emphases on the person and role of the Holy Spirit in their respective Christological interpretations. Hence, the fourth chapter discusses the rationale for a revised Pneumatological Christology for India, toward a Pentecostal perspective, integrating Pneumatology and Christology in a trinitarian perspective and develops criteria for a Pentecostal hermeneutics for developing a Pneumatological Christology.
Consequently, the dissertation leads toward constructing a contextually relevant Pneumatological Christology for India. This revised model is a Seven-strand Pneumatological Christology, reconstructed utilizing the classical Pentecostal Five-fold Gospel Framework as discussed by Yong and Seven-fold Christological framework of Shaibu Abraham‘s Ordinary Indian Pentecostal Christology also adopted Narendra Singh‘s Dialectic Method. Thus, this is a complementary model and an effective tool in interpreting as well as presenting the person and function of Jesus Christ for India in association with the Holy Spirit in a trinitarian perspective.
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