What difference does religious plurality make in my work as a Christian theologian?
a. As a theological teacher, I bring in the fact of religious plurality into all my teaching. The way I taught “Introduction to Christian Theology” to my students in Tamilnadu Theological Seminary included a conversation between Christians and Saivites at each point in the teaching. The courses that I teach now at Candler School of Theology, including “Christian Encounter with Hinduism”, take the issue of religious plurality seriously into account in constructing one’s theology. b. My research over the years and my publications indicate the inclusion of religious plurality into every aspect of thinking. My book, “The Crucified Guru: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Christology”, is an attempt to understand and articulate one’s faith in Christ through the category of “Guru” in the Tamil Saivite tradition. The awareness of religious plurality and an appreciation of it have led me in this book to come up with a functional understanding of Christology and a reconstruction of the exclusive c
