J acob's Indian theology

What makes Indian theology distinctive from other theologies? First is its ancient roots going back to the tradition of Jesus Christs's disciple, St. Thomas's visit to the souther part of India in the first century . The survival of a community of Christians in Kerala from that time till today is the other distinctive feature. The most important is the theological position of the St. Thomas Christians that each religion is unique in its way to salvation. Christians in India are integral related to the history and culture of India. Christianity is very much an Indian religion, older than many of the Christian countries of the west. Another distinctive feature is its early writers were not Christian, but Hindus who responded to the Christian faith. The renascent Hindu leaders shaped the Indian Christian Theology more than any any Indian Christians. They set the tone of the early Indian Christian theology which is called the classical Indian Christian theology. The names of Rajarammohan Roy and Keshub Chunder Sen and the other Brahma Samaj leaders of Calcutta still inspire the Indian Theologians. Now the Indian theology has made a unique turn in shaping the revolutionary theology of the Dalits which offeres a spiritual challenge to the age old caste hierarchy. New develoopments in the are of gender and ecology also make Indian Christian theology unique which can challenge and offer correctives to the traditional theologies of the West.