… have coexisted mostly peacefully with the predominantly Hindu … Saint Thomas Christians
have integrated into the Hindu … the Hindus and the Saint Thomas Christians, the lessons of the …

… Christianity. The answers to the questions of how to deal with religious diversity in Christianity
… the encounter with these “ancient” Indian Christians that made the missionaries aware of …

… , Saint Thomas the Apostle brought Christianity to India in … Christians on the Malabar Coast
in southwest India by the sixth century CE1 The existence of this Christian community in India …

… the Indian Ocean. Much more complete accounts are given in Brown (1956), Tisserant (1957)
and Rogers (1962) but, for our purpose, we may notice the presence of Christians in India, …

… s Pickett, whose work on mass conversion movements was a landmark in Indian Christian
studies, reports that where missions had to compete with one another for adherents, 'intense …

… Despite contradictions and inconclusive opinions, the tradition can be neither proven nor
dis-proven, but it is entirely possible that St Thomas could be the founder of Christianity in India.…

… and the ordinary Christian believers, we notice a renewed interest in this book, for they
perceive that it underlines for the believers the basic tenants of the early Christian faith, the spirit …

… caste in Kerala, converted by St Thomas the Apostle after his arrival in India in AD 52. This
… St Thomas did come to Kerala; early Christian sources all agree that he was sent to India …

… Thomas, An account of the ancient Syrian Church of Malabar Les chrétiens de saint Thomas
Eglise syrienne du Malabar Cambridge University Press 1956 315 p. avec une carte et pi …

… The Thomas Christians of India claim that the Apostle Thomas visited the northwestern and
… in Edessa about AD 250 says that the Indian field of St Thomas was ‘even to the farthest sea.’ …