{"id":4258,"date":"2017-10-07T06:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:02:16","slug":"paulos-mar-gregorios-a-reader-fr-dr-k-m-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/?p=4258","title":{"rendered":"Paulos Mar Gregorios: A Reader \/ Fr. Dr. K. M. George"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PMG-Reader-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4822\" src=\"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PMG-Reader-cover-300x218.png\" alt=\"PMG-Reader-cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PMG-Reader-cover-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PMG-Reader-cover.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortresspress.com\/product\/paulos-mar-gregorios-reader\">Paulos Mar Gregorios: A Reader<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"field-group-format-toggler\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a class=\"field-group-format-title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortresspress.com\/product\/paulos-mar-gregorios-reader#\">Description<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"field-group-format-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"body field\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Paulos Mar Gregorios: A Reader<\/em>\u00a0is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches. The book deals with his thought in the areas of ecumenism, orthodox theology, philosophy, interfaith dialogue, and philosophy of science. The book will be of special value to the students of ecumenism, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Indian philosophy, interdisciplinary studies, and holistic education.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-product-versions field-type-field-collection field-label-hidden field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"entity entity-field-collection-item field-collection-item-field-product-versions clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-version-type field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden field-wrapper clearfix\">\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li class=\"taxonomy-term-reference-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Hardcover<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-isbn field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ISBN:\u00a09781506430164<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-price field-type-number-decimal field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Price:\u00a0$79.00<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entity entity-field-collection-item field-collection-item-field-product-versions clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-version-type field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden field-wrapper clearfix\">\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li class=\"taxonomy-term-reference-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ebook<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-isbn field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ISBN:\u00a09781506430171<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group-other-desc-info field-group-div\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-release-date field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Release date:\u00a0<span class=\"date-display-single\">November 1, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pages:\u00a0368<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-width field-type-number-decimal field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Width:\u00a06<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-height field-type-number-decimal field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Height:\u00a09<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"field-group-format-toggler\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a class=\"field-group-format-title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortresspress.com\/product\/paulos-mar-gregorios-reader#\">Contents<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"field-group-format-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-1-title field-type-field-group-titles field-label-hidden field-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Paulos Mar Gregorios A Reader <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-1-title field-type-field-group-titles field-label-hidden field-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">K. M. George <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-1-title field-type-field-group-titles field-label-hidden field-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-1-title field-type-field-group-titles field-label-hidden field-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Theology of Paulos Mar Gregorios This book is a collection of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a leader of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and the ecumenical movement. The key areas discussed in the book are ecumenical theology, orthodox theology, philosophy, and religion and science. The book will be of special value to students of ecumenical theology, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Indian philosophy, interdisciplinary studies, interfaith dialogue, and holistic education. PRAISE FOR PAULOS MAR GREGORIOS \u201cThe many diverse themes and issues addressed by the versatile mind of Mar Gregorios are all woven around his vision of a new humanity and a new order of the world rooted in justice, peace, and love. The interdisciplinary character of his writings is particularly striking today as our world desperately needs a convergence of scientific rationality and other forms of human creativity. Mar Gregorios\u2019s deep knowledge of ancient and modern cultural traditions and his erudite search for bridging the gap between the secular and the transcendent come out brilliantly in this book.\u201d BABU SEBASTIAN | Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, India \u201cA superb selection of writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a genius with universal knowledge of science, philosophy, and different cultures and religions. One of the few \u2018renaissance polymaths\u2019 of the twentieth century who crossed not only geographical boundaries but also those of mindsets and different forms of knowledge, Mar Gregorios was recognized as an outstanding leader in church and society worldwide. He inspired many people in the ecumenical movement\u2014this book shows why this was the case.\u201d MARTIN ROBRA | World Council of Churches, Geneva \u201cPaulos Mar Gregorios was one of the great theologians of the twentieth century. Orthodox and progressive, traditional and modern, Indian and \u2018Western,\u2019 Mar Gregorios defies simple categorization . Until now, most of his books and essays were published in India and were not easy to get hold of. This new collection of his writings will help to make his thought more widely available. I believe he would hope that it would stimulate further reflection on the subjects he so deeply cared about.\u201d PHILIP L. WICKERI | Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong K. M. George served as moderator of the WCC Programme Committee (1998\u20132006), as executive secretary of the NCC-India, and as principal and professor at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam, India. He was also professor at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland (1989\u201394). He is a priest of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in India and is currently director and Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios Chair of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, as well as director of the Sopana Orthodox Academy, Kottayam, India. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-1-title field-type-field-group-titles field-label-hidden field-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-1-modules field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"zf-1col node node-content-wysiwyg view-mode-module_view\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"group-content columns\">\n<div class=\"body field\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Part 1: Philosophy\u2014Western and Indian\/Asian<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.1. Philosophy, Meaning, and History\u2014Problem of Methodology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.2. European Philosophy and Enlightenment<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.3. Philosophy of Science<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.4. Indian\/Asian Philosophical Insights<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.5. Epistemology\u2014Western and Indian<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.6. Philosophy of History<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.7. Quest for Certainty<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.8. Critique of Ideology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Part 2: Ethical Dimensions\u2014Peace, Ecology, Holistic Healing, Interfaith Dialogue<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2.1. World Peace, Justice, and Disarmament<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2.2. Ethics and Ecology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2.3. Holistic Healing<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2.4. Interfaith Dialogue<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Part 3: Autobiographical Glimpses, Worship, and Spirituality<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">3.1. Autobiographical Glimpses<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">3.2. Joy of Freedom (Worship and Spirituality)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Part 4: Theology and Ecumenism<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.1. God-World-Humanity Relationship\u2014Insights from Gregory of Nyssa<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.2. Freedom and Authority<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.3. Sacramental Theology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.4. Scriptural Witness\u2014Interpreting the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.5. The Communitarian Dimension of Faith and Knowledge<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.6. Man\/Humanity as Mediator\u2014Theological Anthropology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.7. The Mystery of Incarnation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.8. Dimensions of Ecumenism<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.9. Theological Method<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.10. Church and Ministry<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.11. Liberation and Salvation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Part 5: Perspectives on Future Humanity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">5.1. Perspectives on Future Humanity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Introduction <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios (1922\u20131996), formerly known as Paul Verghese, a versatile Indian philosopher, theologian, and leader of the ecumenical movement, was a prolific writer and speaker. Some of the fields where he made seminal contributions include the ecumenical movement as represented particularly by the World Council of Churches, global peace and nuclear disarmament movements , holistic health and healing, inter-faith and inter-ideological dialogues involving major religions and secular ideologies, faith science debates and environmental ethics for a sane human future, and cross-cultural and philosophical searches for a new Enlightenment paradigm. Born in a traditional Orthodox Syrian Christian family at Trippunithura , Kerala, India, on August 9, 1922, the young Paul was a brilliant student and a fervent Christian seeker. After high school he had various stints with the local newspapers as a freelance journalist , a transportation company, and the Indian Post and Telegraph Department. He left for Ethiopia as a teacher at twenty-five. After three years of teaching in government schools, he went to the United States for college. Returning to India, he joined the Fellowship House associated with Union Christian College at Alwaye, where he taught as honorary lecturer and also assumed leadership of the Orthodox Student Christian movement. When the emperor Haile Sellassie of Ethiopia visited India in 1956, Paul Verghese, who had already come to the attention of the emperor as a brilliant teacher who mastered the Amharic language, was invited to be on his staff as his aide and advisor on education. After five years of service at the imperial court, he returned to the United States to continue his theological education at Princeton, Yale, and Oxford. He accepted ordination as priest in the Indian Orthodox Church in 1960. The newly ordained Father Paul Verghese was one of the three Bible study leaders at the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi in 1961, where he acquired a reputation for his perceptive biblical exegesis and remarkable communication skills. Soon he was invited by Dr. Visser\u2019tHooft to Geneva to be Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. In 1967 he resigned his position in Geneva and returned to India to be Principal of Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam, Kerala. In 1975 he was consecrated bishop of the Indian Orthodox Church and was given the monastic name Mar Gregorios. He assumed responsibility of the Delhi diocese while continuing to be principal of the seminary in Kerala, as willed by his church. Mar Gregorios often shuttled between Kottayam and New Delhi while also discharging his many international commitments for about two decades until his death at his New Delhi residence in 1996. During this period he was also elected to the Presidium of the World Council of Churches and was made the president of the Indian Philosophical Congress for a term. After his death, Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam, a secular state university, instituted Dr.Paulos Mar Gregorios Chair at the University in honor of his contributions to society at large. Though he remained a committed Christian and a teacher of theology, several leading secular intellectuals and academics in India, including some Marxist theoreticians, openly acknowledged their indebtedness to Mar Gregorios for his insightful teachings and his broad-based competence and sense of direction in current sociopolitical issues as well as in scientific and technological advances and their impact on humanity. In the present volume we are gleaning from a wide range of his writings in a fairly representative manner. This, of course, is not easy since one has to discern the major thrust of the texts as well as the multilayered references and nuances of the author\u2019s thinking. While going through the body of his writings in the selection process, my constant question to myself was whether Mar Gregorios himself would agree with what is highlighted as his major emphases in different domains. My conviction that the present selection would correspond to his taste is based on the sole ground that I had known him as my teacher, mentor, and spiritual father for nearly three decades. As a student and then as a young colleague I had the privilege of being invited to be a sounding board for some of his ideas as they emerged in his mind. Soon after his death I was rather reluctant to write and publish anything substantial about his teachings, despite prompting from several friends, lest I corrupt the clarity and power of his thinking through the clumsiness of my&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulos Mar Gregorios: A Reader Description Paulos Mar Gregorios: A Reader\u00a0is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-gregorian-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}