What follows is the abstract from my recently submitted MTh dissertation.
The Ashram Church:
A Study of Possible Implications of the Ashram Community for the Rural Church in the Punjab by J V David
ABSTRACT
This study explores the potential of the Christian ashram as an alternative way to institutionalize the church in India. The ashram church proposal is located within the broad history of the Christian ashram movement in India. The study examines the formal ecclesiality of the ashram church from the perspective of the Free Church ecclesiology developed by Miroslav Volf in his book After Our Likeness: The Church as the image of the Trinity (1998). Three pathways of contextual relevance are proposed, and using selected issues from the broad context of the Indian church, the ashram church is probed to see how it could help the church become indigenous in expression, form and vision. The case study research strategy (Robert K. Yin, 2003, Case Study Research: Design and Methods, 3rd edn.) is used to study the Saccidananda Ashram, an existing Christian ashram, as an ecclesial community. Finally, the study outlines the implications of the ashram church proposal for the rural church in the Indian Punjab.
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thanks for dropping by my blog and leaving that comment. and i am glad to see this blog coming up. hope to see more of your thoughts on this topic. and please make sure that you send the link to this blog to others as well. do get intentional about it. i am here because i followed your profile when i read the comment. in fact after sometime you may want to add members to this blog and this truly becomes a collective effort; a virtual prototype of an emerging ashram community. ashram of the mind.
Thank you, Ashish, for your suggestion to invite members. I have done that. I am looking forward to participating in an emerging virtual ashram community!
Thanks for stopping by!
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