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      "chunk_data": "In the ten years since delivering his lecture on 'The Indian National Church' (cited above) the Brahmo Samaj leader, Keshub Chunder Sen had come under increasing Christian influence. Yet the emphasis on Indianness remains.",
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      "chunk_data": "This is a brief passage from his lecture, 'India Asks: Who is Christ?' The full text is found in Keshub Chunder Sen's Lectures in India, Vol. I pp. 359-393.\n\nI desire to speak of Christ... Most eagerly and most earnestly she (India) asks—Who is Christ?",
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      "chunk_data": "Look at the flood of Christian literature that has swept over the length and breadth of the country. There are heaps of books and numberless preachers and teachers around you, all ready to give, in his own way, a complete answer to the question before us.",
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      "chunk_title": "The Western Christ in India",
      "chunk_data": "For England has sent unto us, after all, a Western Christ. This is indeed to be regretted. Our countrymen find that in this Christ, sent by England, there is something that is not quite congenial to the native mind, not quite acceptable to the genius of the nation.",
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        "event": "Keshub Chunder Sen criticized the presentation of Jesus in India as a Western Christ sent from England.",
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      "chunk_title": "Rejecting Denationalization",
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      "chunk_title": "Seeking Christ in Asia",
      "chunk_data": "But why should you Hindus go to England to learn Jesus Christ? Is not his native land nearer to India than England?... Gentlemen, go to the rising sun in the East, not to the setting sun in the West, if you wish to see Christ in plentitude of his glory and in the fulness and freshness of his divine life...",
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      "chunk_title": "The True Asiatic Christ",
      "chunk_data": "Recall to your minds, gentlemen, the true Asiatic Christ, divested of all Western appendages, carrying on the work of redemption among his own people. Behold, he cometh to us in his loose flowing garment, his dress and features altogether oriental, a perfect Asiatic in everything...",
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      "chunk_title": "Jesus as One of Us",
      "chunk_data": "Indeed, while reading the Gospel, we cannot but feel that we are quite at home when we are with Jesus, and that he is altogether one of us. Surely Jesus is our Jesus...",
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      "chunk_title": "The Invisible Christ",
      "chunk_data": "But can we say the same thing of the invisible Christ: the soul of Christ? Is that oriental? Can you as Asiatic appreciate and accept the spirit of Christ as that of a fellow Asiatic?... Though",
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