One Territory-One Bishop? or Shall the Syrian Rites Die? A Comprehensive Study of the Nazranee(syrian) Community in Relation to Some Current Questions

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The Die is Cast ..........................................21 The Casting of the Die ........................................................22 The follow-up of the Resolutions ........................................24 An Analysis of the Resolutions ...........................................26 The Core of the Demand ....................................................26 Violations and Violations!! ..................................................31 Syrian Church in Pre-Portuguese India ..............................32 Influence of the Syrian Church in Budhist& Hindu Religious Literature.................................34 OnBudhism ..............................................34 On Hinduism................................................ 37 Tirukural and the Syrian Church in Mylapore .....................42 Society, Culture and Religion...............................................44 The Social and Cultural Ethos of the Nazranee (SyrianChristian) Community In the 16th and 17th Centuries ..............................................51 In Social Status ....................................................................52 As a Martial Class...............................................................56 The 18 and 19th Centuries .................................................57 Our Separated Brethren......................................................66 The 20th Century ..................................................................69 Efflorescence of Vocations - or Is it the Second Spring? ...71 The Syrian Clergy and the Foreign Missionaries ................75 The Bishops from Babylon ..................................................76 Priests...................................................................77 The Christianised Hindu Culture of the Syrian (Nazranee) Community............................................84 The Malabar Church and the Roman Pontiffs ....................95 The Western Church Looks Eastward.............................. 10C Liturgy ............................................................ 1ft Church Administration....................................................... 1 Rites, Western and Eastern............................................... 1 Resolutions and the Democratic State .............................. 1 The Changanacherry and theTrivandrum Dioceses ........I Plurality of Rites under One Single Bishop....................... 1 The Resolutions, Analysed and Examined The Cover with a Time-Bomb ........................................... The Tension and its Anatomy ............................................ The Parentage of the Hydra-The Plurality of Jurisdiction 128 Asking for Signs ................................................................ 129 Tremendous Reinforcement.............................................. 133 The Contents of the Resolutions ....................................... 134 Question of Overlapping Jurisdiction ................................ 136 Violation of Ecumenism.................................................... 137 Violation of Human Liberty.............................................. 140 Violation of Christ`s Law ................................................. 141 The Resolutions and the Spiritual Church of Christ.......... 141 Violation of Christ`s Precept............................................. 144 The Violation of the Principle of the Last Supper............ 144 Violation of St. Paul`s Dictum of Human Liberty ............. 145 Violation of the Pledge of the Roman Pontiffs ................ 146 Violation of Christian Traditions ........................................ 148 Violation of the Decrees of Vatican II.............................. 150 Violation of the Oriental Canon Law ................................ 151