History of Christianity in India
This book traces the history of Christianity from its inception around AD 40 when St.Thomas the Apostle landed in Taxila. Later he came down to Kerala and had esstablished church from the north to south all over India. This had its impact on local religions and the vedic religions which eventually syncretized to give rise to modern Hinduism. This gnostic (New Age) seperation did give rise to redefinition from contact with the World wide Christian Churches. Later Colonisation brought in various denominations into India. The book tells it all in a nutshell
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History of Christianity in India
This book traces the history of Christianity from its inception around AD 40 when St.Thomas the Apostle landed in Taxila. Later he came down to Kerala and had esstablished church from the north to south all over India. This had its impact on local religions and the vedic religions which eventually syncretized to give rise to modern Hinduism. This gnostic (New Age) seperation did give rise to redefinition from contact with the World wide Christian Churches. Later Colonisation brought in various denominations into India. The book tells it all in a nutshell
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History of Christianity in India

History of Christianity in India

by M.M. Ninan
History of Christianity in India

History of Christianity in India

by M.M. Ninan

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This book traces the history of Christianity from its inception around AD 40 when St.Thomas the Apostle landed in Taxila. Later he came down to Kerala and had esstablished church from the north to south all over India. This had its impact on local religions and the vedic religions which eventually syncretized to give rise to modern Hinduism. This gnostic (New Age) seperation did give rise to redefinition from contact with the World wide Christian Churches. Later Colonisation brought in various denominations into India. The book tells it all in a nutshell

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014475969
Publisher: Mammen Ninan
Publication date: 04/28/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 300
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

Prof. Ninan was born in Kozhencheri, Kerala, India in a Syrian Christian Family which claims descent from one of the four families to whom St.Thomas the apostle of Jesus entrusted the gospel. His father Late.Mr.M.M.Mammen, was a publisher Freedom fighter and Christian Reformer. His eldest Brother is the well known theologian Late Dr.M.M.Thomas, who was the Chairman of the World Council of Churches, the Governor of Nagaland, India and the Chairman of the Christian Institute of Study of Society and Religion. He belongs to the Malankara Mar Thoma Church, a reformed church holding the theology of the Eastern Churches which claims a 2000 year old heritage.
He is by profession a Professor of Theoretical Physics and had been a teacher in various universities around world including Ethiopia, Ghana, Jamaica, Sudan, Yemen, India and United States of America. He retired as the President of the Hindustan Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Affiliated to University of Bangalore, India.

He was the first Moderator of the International Christian Fellowship, Sanaa, Yemen and the Co-founder of the Sudan Pentecostal Church. He has published over fifty books in History of Religions, Hinduism and Theology.
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