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Evangelization through Saivism
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Evangelization through Saivism Evangelization through Saivism[This paper is prepared on the basis of the new research findings of Prof. Dr .M. Deivanayagam, by Dr.D.Devakala ] Should we evangelize Christians?The topic sounds like proselytizing Christians through Christianity; it is a g...
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12. Leaders spread Thomas Legends
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Chapter TwelveWhatever the scholars may say against the myth of St. Thomas in Malabar and Mylapore―and some of them are high-ranking ecclesiastics of faith and integrity―India’s political leaders, in keeping with their own tradition of ignorance and arrogance, have declared differe...
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11. Vatican say Thomas visit not substantiated
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Chapter ElevenThe Vatican officially stated in 1952 that the landing of St. Thomas at Cranganore in 52 CE was “unverified”.[38] Before this, in 1729, the Bishop of Mylapore had written to the Sacred Congregation of Rites and asked for verification as to “whether this place be the true sepulch...
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10. Portuguese develop St.Thomas tales
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Chapter TenThe Portuguese were familiar with the St. Thomas legend long before they arrived in India. They knew Marco Polo’s Il Milione, made popular in Europe in the fourteenth century, and the earlier sixth century Latin romances De Miraculis Thomae and Passio Thomae. The Pass...
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09 Portuguese and Syrian Christians
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Chapter NineVasco da Gama arrived at Calicut in 1498 with the help of an Arab pilot. He was a clever navigator and one of history’s most brutal men,[32] but he was not very bright when it came to religion. He thought Calicut was a Christian city and returned to Portugal with the impression that t...
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08 14th century
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Chapter EightBishop Giovanni dei Marignolli, a Franciscan friar from Florence, visited Mylapore in 1349 on his return journey to Italy from China. His notes are full of St. Thomas exotica. He had baptized some Syrian Christians and lower caste Hindus the year before, in Quilon, and built a Roman Ca...
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07 Marcopolo tales
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Chapter Seven“It is in this province, which is styled the Greater India, at the gulf between Ceylon and the mainland, that the body of Messer St. Thomas lies, at a certain town having no great population.” – Marco Polo in Il Milione (ca. 14th century)Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveller, is said...
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06 Thomas of Cana & Nestorians
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Chapter SixThomas of Cana, or Knai Thoma as he is known to Syrian Christians, the Canaanite merchant from Jerusalem who had led the fourth century migration of Syrian Christians to Malabar, was probably a Manichee Christian. This may be inferred from the name of the Christian quarter that he built,...
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05 Early Christians in India
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Chapter FiveThe first Christians to emigrate to India came in 345 CE. They landed at Cranganore in Malabar, then the ancient port of Muziris on the mouth of the Periyar River where it joined the Arabian Sea. They were four hundred refugees from Babylon and Nineveh, belonging to seven tribes and seven...
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04. Western Institutions help spread St.Thomas Myth
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Chapter Four“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George OrwellBishop Neill is being charitable to Bishop Medleycott when he calls his India and the Apostle Thomas an imaginative romance built on slender foundations. Henry Love, in Vestiges of...
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03 Acts of Thomas and church apologists
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Chapter ThreeThis is the essential Acts of Thomas, with the opening and closing parts quoted at length for reference. Fr. A. Mathias Mundadan, Professor of Church History and Theology at the Dharmaram Pontifical Institute, Bangalore, in History of Christianity in India, says, “The descripti...
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02 Acts of Thomas
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Chapter TwoBardesanes, the traditional author of the Acts of Thomas, was born at Edessa in Syria (now Urfa in south-eastern Turkey) in 154 CE. His parents were wealthy Persian aristocrats and he was brought up with a prince, Bar-Manu, who later succeeded to the throne of the Abgars. He married and h...
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01 St.Thomas Myth and Church researchers
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Chapter One“All ages can testifie enough howe profitable that fable of Christe hath ben to us and our companie.” – Pope Leo X to Cardinal Bembo in The Pageant of Popes by Bishop John Bale (1548)In the beginning of The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, Roman Catholic hagiographer Donald At****er write...
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Introduction
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IntroductionThe legend of St. Thomas in India has its origin in the third century Gnostic religious text known as the Acts of Thomas. Judas Thomas called Didymus, identified in the Acts as the look-alike twin brother of Jesus, had travelled in Syria and Persia and had established a church in the...
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Foreward - KOENRAAD ELST
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Foreward- KOENRAAD ELSTA predictable component of platitudinous speeches by secularist politicians is that “Christianity was brought to India by the apostle Thomas in the first century AD, even before it was brought to Europe”. The intended thrust of this claim is that, unlike Hinduism which wa...
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Contents
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ContentsCopyrightDedicationAuthor’s NotePart OneQuotationsForeword – Koenraad ElstIntroduction – Ishwar SharanThe Myth Of Saint Thomas And The Mylapore Shiva Temple – Ishwar SharanPart TwoArchbishop Arulappa’s History Project Goes Terribly Wrong – K.P. SunilArchbishop Arulappa’s Do...
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