• ISBN13: 9788121293846
• Binding: Paperback
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• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: January 1, 2023
• Pages: 228
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
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• Item Weight: 406 grams
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This book contain that India's religious history holds significant importance in a world religious history due to its extensive coverage of the religious beliefs and practices of a highly spiritual people over a prolonged period. That despite numerous books written on the topic, it remains uncovered in its entirety. The contemplation of Christ should lead a person to two significant effects: a realization of their own limitations and faults, as well as those of other Christians, and a sense of humility. India's religious history presents both encouraging and disheartening aspects. On one hand, it reveals that despite limitations, errors, and sin, Hindus have responded to the divine voice. On the other hand, it highlights their failure to understand the core of religion that man needs to accept the God who seeks him, rather than only seek after God. A comprehensive evaluation of India's religious history should also reveal the application of genetic psychology principles, which have influenced Hindus and other people similarly.

Robert A. Hume (1847-1929), Hume was born in Bombay, India, of missionary parents serving with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). He graduated from Yale University and Andover Seminary and was sent by the ABCFM to India, where he was assigned to the Marathi Mission, based in the city of Ahmednagar. He remained there his entire missionary career (1874-1926) and thus became known as Hume of Ahmednagar. In 1878 he founded and headed the Ahmednagar Divinity College, his main responsibility for 43 years. One of his most notable students at the seminary was the Marathi Christian poet Narayan Vaman Tilak. During that time he was superintendent of the Partner mission district near Ahmednagar. He also served as English editor of Dnyanodaya, the mission’s Anglo-Marathi newspaper, as president of the Bombay Christian Council, and as the first moderator of the United Church of North India when it was formed in 1925. In 1893 he addressed the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago on “Christian and Hindu Thought.” Hume received an honorary D.D. from Yale University in 1895, and Queen Victoria conferred upon him in 1901 the Kaiser-i-Hind gold medal for his public service in India. He was the author of Missions from the Modern View (1905), An Interpretation of India’s Religious History (1911), and nearly 200 pamphlets in English and Marathi.