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Preaching Forgiveness to the Hindu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

William Stewart
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Some years ago, on Christmas Eve, I was invited to explain the significance of Christmas to a group of Hindu students in one of the Institutions at Sevagram (Mr. Gandhi's Ashram). In the discussion which followed the address, the thoughtful Principal of this Institution said something like this: “Would it not be correct to say that the real difference between you Christians and ourselves is that you teach that forgiveness is possible, while we believe it is impossible and the idea immoral?”

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 1949 , pp. 187 - 197
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1949

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page 197 note 1 This paper makes no reference to the criticism of Karma which developed within Hinduism itself through the bhakti movement. That would call for another study, and the writer believes that there is such a large tract of Hindu life which is not really affected by it that it is not unjust to develop a statement of this nature without specific reference to it.