CHRISTIAN MISSION AND INDIAN RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
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Mission, RELIGIOUS PLURALISMAbstract
The history of the expansion of Christianity is dominated by one recurring theme : uncompromising fidelity to orthodoxy in belief and practice. This consequently, brought her into conflict with religions with which she came into contact. St. Paul, the first great Christian missionary, was uncompromising in his polemics with his ancestral faith, Judaism, even in matters which to men of the twentieth century seem to be ridiculous.
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