CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP AND INTER• RELIGIOUS APOSTOLATE

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Abstract

CMI Major seminary's shifting from its earlier existence as S.H.Theologate, at Chethipuzha in Kerala to its reincarnation as Dharmaram College, Bangalore, was itself a theological sea-change. Moving away from a theological curriculum calculated to form priests committed to the SyroMalabar tradition and its ministry almost exclusively to Syro-Malabar Catholics, and coming to more central a place like Bangalore, one had to take stock of the whole Indian situation in which Catholics or even Christians are a small minority. Ithad to widen the scope of apostolate so as to embrace the whole population of India. This has greater importance in the modem age when faith and reflection on faith have lost their impact on a majority of people. Christian mission is to communicate to all what God did in Jesus of Nazareth for the sake of all his children.