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of what MM stood for -- the centrality and priority of the human. confirmation the period from 1968-1975 when MM was Chairman of the Central Committee of During WCC, there were a number of attacks on MM's theology from good friends like the Lesslie Newbigin, Prof. Wolf and others. Behind these was a fear that M. M. Bishop watering down good old European Christianity and the unspoken western anxiety Was the leadership of the Christian Ecumenical Movement may not be safe in the hands that non-European Christians like M.M. Thomas and Philip Potter. Is Christianity safe in of hands of the West? the is a good thing that MM is not a systematic theologian. If he were he would have been It in the labyrinths of methodological precisions and terminological exactitudes which lost is a pious liberal Christian, devotedly committed to Jesus Christ, but not to the MM believed by the Church. It is a Christ about whom he learned much from Marxism Christ Gandhism, and whose main work is in society rather than in the Church or in the and soul. Christ is at work in technology, in the Asian Revolution, in allsocial individual is no doubt that for many Protestant Christians and others committed to social There MM has been a source of great inspiration and encouragement. I remember change. Fermandez, who, if anything is a Roman Catholic, saying in a Delhi meeting George which I was presiding, that he was prepared to fall at MM's feet and kiss his feet. over added also, for my benefit, that he could do that with no other Christian leaders. MM He a great teacher and a prolific writer, even as he enters his seventies. May God remains him many more years of mental and bodily health and vigour to further clarify the grant of his thought. I would like, personally, to see his thought move and develop framework two different directions. First, his ecclesiology, with its sacramentaltheology, will have in show more clearly the distinctions and relations between the work of Christ and the to Spirit in the community of faith on the one hand and in the world as a whole on the Holy Second, in developing the latter aspect, i.e. the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit other. the world, he would have to make the Cross on which the world is today hanging a in more clear. That Cross has a North-South beam and an East-West beam. He little still have to work out the relation between the East-west tensions as not just would rivalry, but also as a conflict which has its roots in the exploitation and super-power is both an ex-Marxist and an ex-Gandhian, though his actual involvement anddeep MM of Marxism and Gandhism was of somewhat short duration. He is seeking penetration make that Cosmic Christ make sense to Christians and non-Christians alike in the To of today's world is a big challenge indeed, to him as well as to the rest of us. context would have made him unreadable. change everywhere. Christ is also the norm for our participation in all change. oppression of the many by the few. to go beyond both Marxism and Gandhism through his perception of a Cosmic Christ.
salute M. M. and pay my humble tribute to him. May God guide him and use him for I more years to come. many
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MADATHILPARAMPIL MAMMEN THOMAS 1
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Mrs. Mariamma Mammen Teacher Mother
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Associate Director, CISRS; 1957: of
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Mammen Thomas Family Arun,Thampy, A
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