"I guess that both the West and the world are getting to turn away from man — worshipping ideologies — Communism and secular individualism alike — and become converted to an Oriental religion corning neither from Russia nor from the West. I guess that this will be the Christian religion that came to the Greeks and the Romans from Palestine, with one or two elements in traditional Christianity discarded and replaced by a new element from India, I expect and hope that this avatar of Christianity will include the vision of God as being Love. But I also expect and hope that it will discard the other traditional Christian vision of God as being a jealous god, and that it will reject the self-glorification of this jealous god's "chosen people" as being unique. This is where India comes in, with her belief that there may be more than one illuminating and saving approach to the mystery of the universe."
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In S. Radhakrishnan, East and West: Some Reflections (New York, Harper, [1956]) p. l28. As quoted and attributed in S. Londhe, A Tribute to Hinduism (2008)
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Arnold J. Toynbee
1889 – 1975
britischer Kulturtheoretiker und Geschichtsphilosoph
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