Christ who Embraces

Jacob Joseph Ph.D. (2020), University of Divinity, Melbourne Australia, lectures in Patristics and contemporary theology of mission at St Athanasius College at the University of Divinity, Melbourne Australia, Agora University, Virginia USA, and Malankara Syrian Orthodox Seminary, Kerala, India. He has presented a number of papers on Orthodoxy, Liturgy, Mission, and Theology at various national and international academic conferences.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 Introduction1 A Problem of Liturgy2 Orthodox Mission, Culture and Caste3 Orthodoxy in India, Dalit Embrace, Confusions4 A Problem and Future Ahead5 Liturgy, Body and Politics6 Dalit Theology, Christology, and Embrace7 Dalit Theology, Exclusivism and Methodology8 Chapter-by-Chapter Outline2 The Problem of ‘the Other’: A Historical and Theological Query among the St. Thomas Christians in India1 Introduction2 St. Thomas Christian Identity, Way to Dominance, and Religious Exclusivism3 Transcendental Brahmanic God and Immanent Human (Atman)4 Douglas and Harper: Purity and Pollution, towards Caste Expression5 Varna System, Untouchability and Traditional Christianity6 Orthodox Christians and Caste System: Mor Gregorios, Mor Osthatheos, Ninan Koshy, and C.J.Fuller7 St. Thomas Christians: Re-visiting the History, a Caste Lens8 Re-visiting the Transcendental—Immanent Binary: Y.T.Vinayraj on the Missiological Other9 Conclusion3 Rejecting the Dominant Answers: Envisioning a Theology of Margins1 Introduction2 Caste Solutions: Western Missionaries and Conversion Movements3 Caste and Syrian Solution: Patriarch PeterIII, Mor Gregorios Chathuruthil, Mor Osthatheos Pathros4 Indian Christian Theology and Orthodox Theologians: Mor Gregorios Paulose, Mor Osthatheos Geevarghese5 Indian Christian Theology, Early Teachers, and a Journey towards Liberation6 Dalit Liberation and Dalit Theology: New Goal in Indian Christian Theology7 Dalit Christian Body: Offered Transcendence?8 The Epistemology of Dalit Theology9 Conclusion4 Christ’s Dalit Body: Immanent and Transcendent Dalit Christology1 Introduction2 A General Note on Dalit Christology: A Liberator-Servant3 Arvind P.Nirmal and an Immanent Dalit God4 Sathianathan Clarke: A Cosmic Christology5 Paniel Rajkumar: Dalit Christology as an Ethical-Theological Engagement6 Conclusion5 ‘One Nature’: Transcendent and Immanent Miaphysite Christology1 Introduction2 Miaphystie Christology in India: An Introductory Note3 Cyril of Alexandria: Beacon to Severus’ Immanent Nature4 Severus’ One-Nature Christology: Humanisation of God5 A ‘Royal Road’ Christology: An Immanent and Transcendent Approach6 Sufferings: Julian’s Incorruptible Body of Christ and Severus’ Corruptible Body7 Severus Verses Julian: Human Sin and Corruptibility8 Beyond Cyril: Christ’s Personhood and Consubstantiality with Human Suffering9 Conclusion6 Christ’s Embrace, Reconciliation, and Mission as Liturgy in the Liturgy1 Introduction2 Touch to the Untouched: The Dalit and Orthodox Christological Act3 The Orthodox Concept of the Material: Some Miaphysite Voices4 Can Orthodoxy Think Immanence? Pantelis Kalaitzidis and Mor Geevarghese Coorilose5 Liturgical Embrace: An Inclusive Miaphysite Christological Vision6 Liturgical Inclusiveness of Christ’s Embrace: Vision of Early Syriac Teachers7 Reconciliation: A Practical Dalit-Orthodox Embrace of Liturgy in the Liturgy8 Conclusion7 Touch (Embrace) as Mission: A Synergy of LiturgyAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex