Indian Christianity

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN
Mar Sabor and Mar Proth a pair of Twins were invited to Venad from Middle East on invitation of Kollam
King Kuleshakara as an Authority for the Doctrine of Trinity on the background of a Shivate Revival of
Advaita Vedanta propounded by Adi Shankara and were also instrumental in developing Christian faith
as an independent Religion once and for all seperating it from the heresy of Gnosticism. As part of the
redefinition of Christian Church the Vedic like Chants in Sanskrit , and modes of worship following the
Saivite and Vaishnavite and their icons were abandoned. We may therefore consider Mar Sabor as the
person who defined the Modern Malakara Churches. Thus the Church came to be Nestorian and
reemphasized the declaration of Thomas.
Painting of Mar Sabor, as seen in the church at Thevallakara, Kerala
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