A Human God

By: Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios

The praise of God is best expressed in the worship of God and in service to the created order. Good theology should be devout and well articulated doxology. The eucharist, when fully participated in, is good theology. It is an act of the community rather than the discourse of a scholar.

Published by: Mar Gregorios Foundation

The Church and Authority

By: Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios

Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios of Delhi (1922 - 1996), a leading Orthodox theologian, philosopher and ecumenist of the 20th century had an abiding interest in the issue of the relationship between church and authority. His vision of the kingdom of God served as the ground for his deep sense of the church as well as for his critique of authority and historically developed structures of the church. While profoundly respectful of saintly persons (of any religion) and praying communities, he insisted that God alone is infallible; no ecclesiastical head, no synod, no human formulation of doctrine can ever claim infallibility with regard to truth. This book is a collection of his articles, papers and speeches over a span of four decades on issues like nature of the church, authority, Christian unity, dialogue and conciliarity.

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The Secular Ideology - An Impotent Remedy for India's Communal Problem

By: Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios

The book includes a collection of published and unpublished papers and essays prepared by the author over last three decades secularism. The author raises the point that it is the misuse of religion by political elements that leads to communal tension. He says that the failure of Secularism in India is largely due to the failure in identifying the true causes of communalism

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A Light Too Bright, The Enlightenment Today

An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization

By: Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios

"The author has a special talent for bringing together vast amounts of material and summarizing in clear and insightful ways. This critique of the European Enlightenment is most significant in itself. While there have been other books on the Enlightenment, the approach taken here is unique and could only have been offered by a non-European."

- Harold G. Coward, University of Calgary

Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit, he argues.

The powerful light of Critical Rationality emitted by the European Enlightenment is like the light of the sun. It is bright and helpful for seeing this world in detail, but too bright to let us see the night sky and the vast expanses of the universe. This "light too bright" eclipses the Transcendent. Dr. Gregorios invites us to appropriate the other Enlightenment of the overall-religious-cultural outlook in a new way and to relate it to the valid insights of the European Enlightenment.

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