Mandalam Study Material

Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church Mandalam-2009 Study: Christian Witness: Rethinking the Mission of the Church Initially Published in Malayalam by the Sabha Council.

I felt a strong need for this translation because of the world-wide spread of our Church and of our proud claim that we are a global church. Four out of our twelve dioceses are outside the Malayalam speaking state of Kerala; two dioceses are outside the boundaries of India and a large number of expatriates live in the Middle East and Africa as well. Since 1993 Sabha Council published 17 important studies for the benefit of all the members of the Church. However, these important studies are not available to the growing non-Malayalam speaking sections of our Church, which also include new communities joining our Church from our evangelical endeavours. This is very much like the ‘pre-Vatican-II’ ex cathedra declarations in Latin. It is this realisation and burden, which made me to make a comment at the Mandalam about the need for abstracts of these works in other languages and particularly in English.

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