ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book highlights three central groups of debates that structured the last three hundred years or so of Hindu-Christian encounters, historical, theological, philosophical, and legal. It shows how Hindu-Christian encounters have, in fact, led to epistemic uneasiness on both sides of the divide, leading to various patterns of reformulation of both classical Hindu thought and traditional Christian theology. From the Hindu side of the encounter, the reconfigurations of Hindu approaches to the religious other range from Raja Rammohun Roy who sought to distil the ethical essence of Christian thought out of its doctrinal statements. Partly in response, Indian Christian theologians such as A. J. Appasamy and V. Chakkarai tried to develop Indian Christologies by using the resources of the bhakti traditions to speak of Christ as the unique, permanent, and complete avatara.
