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Gandhi on Christianity / edited by Robert Ellsberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1991.Description: xviii, 117 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0883447568 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 123 .G262 1991
Contents:
Contents:
Encounters with Christianity -- Message of Jesus -- Mission and missionaries -- All religions are true -- Gandhian guidelines for a world of religious difference -- Gandhi's way of the cross -- From Gandhi to Christ: God as suffering love -- Mahatma and the missioner.
Summary: Summary:Summary: Gandhi is widely revered as one of the great moral prophets of the twentieth century. This book focuses on a less well-known area of his interest: his engagement with Jesus and Christianity. As a faithful Hindu, he was unwilling to accept Christian dogma, but in Jesus he recognized and revered one of history's great prophets of nonviolence.
Item type: Books
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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Encounters with Christianity --
Message of Jesus --
Mission and missionaries --
All religions are true --
Gandhian guidelines for a world of religious difference --
Gandhi's way of the cross --
From Gandhi to Christ: God as suffering love --
Mahatma and the missioner.

Summary:

Gandhi is widely revered as one of the great moral prophets of the twentieth century. This book focuses on a less well-known area of his interest: his engagement with Jesus and Christianity. As a faithful Hindu, he was unwilling to accept Christian dogma, but in Jesus he recognized and revered one of history's great prophets of nonviolence.