Abstract
The controversy concerning evangelization and conversions in contemporary India may be productively interpreted as a conflict between stories, between what John Haught refers to as "power-bestowing narratives," or between what Gerald Larson calls "comprehensive interpretive frameworks." These Hindu stories and Christian stories are "discordant," not only with each other, but with other stories within their own traditions, thus fostering the mutual mistrust that thoroughly colors the debate. My task is to sketch four such narrative frameworks, each centered upon an image of India and corresponding to one of four communities involved in the controversy: conservative Hindu nationalists, more secularist Hindus, Evangelical Christian missionaries, and Roman Catholic theologians in India.
Recommended Citation
Trapnell, Judson B.
(2002)
"The Controversy and its Theological Implications,"
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies:
Vol. 15, Article 7.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.7825/2164-6279.1274