"My real profession is namely the science of India, specifically of Indian philosophies and religions. In contrast to nearly all of my colleagues, however, during my thirteen-month stay in India, I established connections with the mission, primarily the Catholic mission, but also the Protestant mission. I wanted to place my science in the service of the Church."
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Paul Hacker, Greuel der VerwĂĽstung an heiliger Statte: Paul Hacker zur Lage der Kirche nach dem Zweiten Vatikanum, ed. Rudolf Kaschewsky (Heimbach/Eifel: Patrimonium Verlag, 2012), 140, n. 1; quoted in Jewish Contributions to the Hindu-Christian Dialogue by Joydeep Bagchee
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Paul Hacker (Indologist)
Paul Hacker (6 January 1913 - 18 March 1979) was a German Indologist, who coined the term Neo-Vedanta in a pejorative way, to distinguish modern developments from "traditional" Advaita Vedanta.
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