{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 136,
  "chapterName": "1897. Brahmabandhab Upadhyay on Hinduism’s Contribution to Christianity",
  "pageFrom": 267,
  "pageTo": 267,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 267,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n267\nMaster, we yet deem it important in our official relation to their\nchurches and their community of churches, we should be known\nnot as the party in which the chief responsibility rests, and not even\nas co-partners or another party of workers, doing in our way and\nin our measure a part of the Lord's work in this field, while they\ndo in their way and their measure some portion of the one great\nwork.\nWe believe it is by throwing ourselves into the work, both in\nthe way of direct preaching and personal work among the heathen,\nas well as in assisting and counselling, training, guiding and\nencouraging, the native Christians, in short, by putting ourselves\ninto their work, and refusing to put mission money into it, that\nwe can best lead the Christians in this field to look upon the whole\nwork as essentially their own, a work the responsibilities of which\nrest and should rest on themselves...\nIn short, aside from the keeping up of our mission compound\nwith its bungalows, etc., and aside from the necessary expense\nof missions tours outside the immediate region occupied by the\nChristians, in which they themselves provide for the free transport\nof our luggage from village to village, we aim to carry on our\nmission work our work of helping the churches-practically\nwithout the use of mission money.\n136. BRAHMABANDHAB UPADHYAY ON HINDUISM'S\nCONTRIBUTION TO CHRISTIANITY (1897 A.D.)\nBrahmabandhab Upandhyay has been described as a Hindu\nsannyasi, a Roman Catholic, and a nationalist. In this early writing\nhe discusses the imperative for making Hindu philosophy the\nhandmaid of Christianity', but he has not yet worked out the\ntheological system for which he was to become so well known.\nFrom Animananda, The Blade. pp. 67-78 Cited in Wm. Theodore\nde Bary, Sources of India Tradition, pp. 734-735.\nnow.\nChristianity has again after a long period come in contact with a\nphilosophy which, though it may contain more errors-because\nthe Hindu mind is synthetic and speculative still unquestionably\nsoars higher than her Western sister. Shall we, Catholics of India,\n(let Hindus make) it their weapon against Christianity\nor shall we look upon it in the same way as St. Thomas looked\nupon the Aristotelian system? We are of (the) opinion that\nattempts should be made to win over Hindu philosophy to the\nservice of Christianity as Greek philosophy was won over in the\nMiddle Ages.",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}