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| | Saint Thomas Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Thus, the East Syriac Church was South Indian in culture, Christian in religion, and Judeo-Syro-Oriental in worship. | | | Though Marthomas have a significant influence from Indian religions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism, it is considered to be that of a Christian religion mainly due to its belief in Jesus Christ. | | | Thomas Christians were classified into the caste system according to their professions, in accordance with the Hindu tradition, with special privileges for trade granted by the benevolent Hindu kings. |
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| | St. Thomas Christians |
| | Thomas VI received the mitre from his dying uncle and the imposition of hands of twelve priests. | | | Thomas was a wealthy merchant who had probably come to trade; the King took a liking to this man, and when he expressed a wish to acquire land and make a settlement the King readily acceded to his request and let him purchase land, then unoccupied, at Cranganore. | | | He is said to have collected seventy-two Christian families (this is the traditional number always mentioned) and to have installed them in as many separate houses erected for them; attach to each dwelling was a sufficient piece of land for vegetable cultivation for the support of the family as is the custom of the country. |
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| | Christians they have been throughout the years, and Christians they are by faith, rite and ethics, in all other respects they are Indians. | | | If one is to suggest the core of the heritage given us by the Oriental Church and the apostle Thomas, the trend most likely will be that this church does not put its faith in philosophical and legal terms, rather, the faith is based on the.testimony of the Holy Scriptures in liturgy and prayer. | | | The church has preserved its faith and its special traditions throughout the centuries and is now ready to share its heritage in dialogue with the Western and the Eastern churches. |
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| | Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Aquinas |
| | The "Summa" is Christian doctrine in scientific form; it is human reason rendering its highest service in defence and explanation of the truths of the Christian religion. | | | Thomas resolved to take what was true from the "unjust possessors", in order to press it into the service of revealed religion. | | | Thomas places side by side words of the New Testament affirming the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament and texts from the Old Testament referring to the types and figures of the Eucharist (se Vaughan, op. |
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http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/stthomas.htm
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| | Saint Thomas Christians |
| | Two saints highly venerated by the Thomas Christians, especially in the city of Quilon where they had served as bishops, date from the ninth century. | | | The Persian emperor Saphur II had begun persecuting Christians in his empire in the middle of the fourth century, and it is possible that a substantial group took flight to India, among other places, as Zoroastrian Parsees did centuries later when Muslims conquered Persia. | | | Like a caste Hindu, a Christian was born to his status. |
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| | Religion in Ancient India - Crystalinks |
| | Their form of Christianity is one of the most ancient: Syriac Christianity which is also known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and referred to in India as Saint Thomas Christians. | | | Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and the Bahá'í Faith are also influential but their numbers are smaller. | | | Today Christianity is the third largest religion of India making up 2 - 2.5% of the population. |
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| | The truth contained in Jesus' answer to Thomas, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me," is that the I AM in man, or the Christ, is the open door to the kingdom of God. | | | Thomas is the disciple of Jesus Christ who represents the understanding faculty in man. Understanding and will function, or should function, in unison; each has its center of activity in the front brain, the forehead. | | | Among the disciples of Jesus, Thomas stood for the head, representing reason and intellectual perception. |
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http://www.soulindia.com/thomasleeha
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| | The Kerala Church Antony Nirappel Changanacherry Kerala, India The Gospel was proclaimed in India by Saint Thomas the Apostle. | | | During that time, the Kerala Christians, under the administration and leadership of indigenous bishops and priests, were very orthodox in the practice of religion and enthusiastic in spreading their faith among high caste communities. | | | The Seleucian Church came to be designated the Church of the East, the Persian Church, the Chaldaean Church or the Babylonian Church. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/homelibr/kerala.txt
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| | Saint Thomas |
| | The Malabar Christians claim that their church was founded by him. | | | One of the original 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ, Thomas, called Didymus, refused to believe in the testimony of the other Apostles concerning the resurrection of Jesus until he saw the wounds of the resurrected Christ himself (John 20:24, 25, 26-29). | | | From the circumstance that in the lists of the apostles he is always mentioned along with Matthew, who was the son of Alphaeus (Mark 3:18), and that these two are always followed by James, who was also the son of Alphaeus, it has been supposed that these three, Matthew, Thomas, and James, were brothers. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/thomas5.htm
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| | Part III: The Myth of Saint Thomas |
| | The expression A doubting Thomas originated after Thomas, disciple of Jesus Christ, who was not ready to believe the resurrection of the Christ when it was narrated to him by other disciples to whom Jesus appeared for the first time after the crucifixion and burial. | | | Thomas spent the last part of his life in Madras preaching the Gospel. | | | Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Christ (a disputed fact), came to India in A.D. 52 with Habban, a foreign trader. |
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| | Thomas Aquinas had the good fortune to gather under the shadow of the one great outstanding Friar, whose respectability it was difficult to dispute, the learned and orthodox Albertus; but even he and his were soon troubled by the growing storm that threatened the new popular movements in the Church. | | | Thomas, like other monks, and especially other saints, lived a life of renunciation and austerity; his fasts, for instance, being in marked contrast to the luxury in which he might have lived if he chose. | | | Thomas was so stolid that the scholars, in the schools which he attended regularly, thought he was a dunce. |
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs0mpw/gkc/books/aquinas.txt
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Nasrani |
| | It was they who referred to themselves as Nasrani Katholikos Khristianos (Nasrani Catholic Christians) for the first time in Antioch to denote themselves as "Jewish followers of the universal assembly of Christ from Nazareth." (Acts 11:26). | | | The Nasrani menorah became a representation of the Christian Jewish tradition, and became the etched symbol with a central cross (on behalf of the first candle) and with branches, three on either side of the cross on behalf of the 6 other candles of the Jewish symbol. | | | These early Christian Jews believed in [Jesus as the Christ, but followed Jewish traditions and called themselves Nazarenes or Nazrani (meaning Jews who followed the Messiah from Nazareth). |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/N/NA/NAS/Nasrani
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| | ATMA JYOTI ASHRAM - Commentary on Saint Matthew 1 - Introduction |
| | Following the example of Jesus and Saint Thomas, they based their spiritual study on the Vedic Upanishads and the Buddhist Sutras in addition to the two gospels of Matthew and Thomas. | | | Commentary on the Gospel of Saint Mathew–1—by Swami Nirmalananda Giri | | | Actually, the only two “Christian” writings considered authoritative by the Ishannis for many centuries were the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Thomas. |
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| | The Gospel Of Thomas Homepage |
| | "Christology and Protology of the Gospel of Thomas" | | | Thomas Lambdin's Translation of the Gospel of Thomas | | | Except for the similar names, the "Infancy Gospel of Thomas" and the "Gospel of Thomas" are not historically connected. |
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| | Saint Thomas à Kempis |
| | In 1413, at the age of thirty-four, after the church was consecrated, Thomas was ordained a priest. | | | Thomas remained in Deventer for seven years, under the direction of Radewyn. | | | In 1406, the cloister was finally built and in the same year, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Thomas was clothed as a novice. |
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http://www.sspx.ca/EucharisticCrusade/2002_November/Saint_Thomas_a_Kempis.htm
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| | SAINT THOMAS |
| | The tradition of these Saint Thomas Christians is that the saint founded seven churches in Malabar, was martyred near Madras, and buried at Mylapore. | | | His last appearances in the Gospels are in the two well known scenes in the Upper Room after the Resurrection. | | | The most interesting story of all has it that he journeyed to India and died for the faith there after many marvelous adventures. |
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| | Christdot :: Christ. Period. :: The disciples post-Bible |
| | The Nestorians claim that their church is apostolic, their church was apostolically succeeded from Thomas, (though their sect was named after Nestorius, who heavily influenced them after he was banished from the west for "heresy") as do the Mar Thoma (Saint Thomas) Christians in Kerala, India. | | | But the Arabs say that "Allah" simply means "the [one] God", and Qur'an teaches that Allah is the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, the God of Jesus, the uncreated creator, omnipotent and omnicient. | | | If it does, the Christians who are making a big fuss about calling God "Allah" in arabic are mistaken, because even the Arab Christians call him that. |
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| | Saint Thomas |
| | The Syriac-rite Christians of Malabar, India, whose church was established by the 3d cent., claim St. Thomas as their founder. | | | are a Gospel of Thomas and Acts of Thomas. | | | According to John, he refused to believe in the resurrection until he saw Jesus' wounds; hence the expression “doubting Thomas.” John 11.16; 14.5; 20.24–29; 21.2. |
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| | The Eastern Apostolic Orthodox Church of Antioch - St. Agatha,ME |
| | We are the out come of a rich blending of many Christian branches/denominations, (together) worshiping God in one accord, as was common in the primitive, ancient Church of the first thousand years of Christianity. | | | We are a "Biblically based," Sacramental Christian Church, Anointed from the Holy Spirit of God above and are a Full Gospel (Charismatic/Pentecostal) Convergence Ministry. | | | Our purpose and hearts prayer is to allow the life changing influences of Our Heavenly Father (God), to re-make us into "unresisting" instruments for helping to bring the true reality of The Kingdom of Heaven, with all its love, beauty and harmony, from invisibility into visibility, into the hearts of a hurting humanity. |
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| | The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple |
| | the apostle Thomas came to India in 52 A.D., founded the Syrian Christian Church, and was killed by the fanatical Brahmins in 72 A.D. Near the site of his martyrdom, the St. Thomas Church was built. | | | The Christian community in South India was founded by a merchant Thomas Cananeus in 345 A.D. (a name which readily explains the Thomas legend). | | | amsa.org explores how the myth of Saint Thomas in India arose and why it has been perpetuated despite the absence of any historical basis in truth. |
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| | WORKS ON CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST |
| | THE ECLIPSE OF CHRISTIANITY IN From the Time of Muhammad till the Fourteenth Century | | | L.I. Conrad, “Varietas Syriaca: Secular and Scientific Culture in the Christian Communities of | | | Christopher Buck, “The Universality of the Church of the East: How Persian was Persian Christianity?” |
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| | Other Christian and Religious Sites |
| | All in All BBS - The Body of Christ | | | The Bible is the final authority for Christians. | | | y encourages the presentation of the Christian message to those for whom organized religion has proved to be ineffectual, irrelevant or repressive. |
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| | My Second Non-Encounter With Anti-Catholic Apologist Matt Slick |
| | Perhaps I am not as charitable to the Catholics as I should be. | | | And if they weren't, I challenged him to be honest and courageous and consistent enough to read THEM out of the faith just like he so readily does with his Catholic brothers and sisters. | | | I am a writer, and that is the talent that I have cultivated for 22 years now as a Christian apologist. |
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| | INDIA |
| | And for those seeking more, there are 114 topics that give readers an impetus to pray and meditate. | | | This Vishudhe satya Bible serves to make studying the word of God a thrilling and adventurous experience. | | | Some of the scripture has been presented on audio on the CD and Vergis has penned and tuned 88 hymns that have been sung by 13 popular singers.Vergis leads inter-denominational Christian prayer groups that organise fasting prayers at several places across the globe- |
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| | St. Thomas Christians of Kerala India |
| | Researches conducted in connection with the preparation of The St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India (esp. Vol.II,1973), The Indian Church History Classics (esp. Vol.I i.e. | | | Whatever the truth of this one thing is certain: these western scholars left no stone unturned in their attemps to disprove the Indian 'legend' about the travels of the Alexandrian visitor Thomas. | | | The fact that the saint is usually represented in Kerala and Tamilnadu as carry ing a lance or thrishoolam instead of the traditional Mattom or set-square may indicate not only the martyrdom but the usual appearance of the man much travelled in the dangerous land of snakes and tigers. |
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| | news.marthoma.com |
| | Small yet growing Christian group; Mar Thoma Church, its members of Indian descent, has added a fourth congregation in the area. | | | The human body can last weeks without food, but only days without water. | | | Water forms the basis of blood, digestive juices, urine and perspiration and is contained in lean muscle, fat and bones. |
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