ABSTRACT

There is a possibility today for any faith-experience or tradition to receive insights from sister faith-experiences or traditions and grow in its content. For an Indian Christian, and perhaps for all Christians, there is a possibility of the fulfilment of the theological and spiritual contents of his/her faith in and through the contributions of Advaitic experience. Advaitic experience becomes a major hermeneutical context for India and Indian Christians. As the gospel is always in the process of formulation in terms of one's hermeneutical context, there is always the emergence of the new. The relation between Jesus and Brahman is tadatmya or non-reciprocal dependence relation. Thinking together with Advaita Vedanta, the theme of theological career and writings, can thus give birth to a novel understanding and experience of the person and function of Jesus. This thinking together need not be limited to a Christology alone.