Comments on: Spice and Spirit http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/09/14/spice-and-spirit/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil S http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/09/14/spice-and-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-3408 Phil S Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:37:02 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/09/14/spice-and-spirit/#comment-3408 Oh, I forgot to add. This article is all the more a propos for me because I'm currently reading a book on Christianity and the other relgions and finished a chapter on Indian Christian theological approaches with Hinduism. Fascinating, even if I really don't know Hinduism well. Peace, Phil Oh, I forgot to add. This article is all the more a propos for me because I’m currently reading a book on Christianity and the other relgions and finished a chapter on Indian Christian theological approaches with Hinduism. Fascinating, even if I really don’t know Hinduism well.

Peace,
Phil

]]> By: Phil S http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/09/14/spice-and-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-3407 Phil S Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/09/14/spice-and-spirit/#comment-3407 Thanks for this, Mike. This is an issue which has interested me as well. Back in the 90s, when I was in grad school, I had worked on a paper dealing with the Rome-India trade. It was a bit of a technical Classics paper, dealing with the question of the alleged trade deficit between Rome and India during the Julio-Claudian emperors, so I really didn't have a chance to talk about Christian contacts. I had tried to get my thesis advisor for my PhD to let me do my thesis on Rome and Indian cultural contacts (for which there is substantial evidence in imperial sources including embassies from India, Indian 'Brahmens' coming to Roman territory (and, memmorably, one even immolating himself at an Olympic Games), Christian contacts with India etc. He didn't go for it because I don't think he really got what I was on about. I still think about that project from time to time. I'll have to hunt up the Mundaden and Menachery sometime, especially if I ever, amid having a new baby in December, decide to revive the India-Rome project. Peace, Phil Thanks for this, Mike. This is an issue which has interested me as well. Back in the 90s, when I was in grad school, I had worked on a paper dealing with the Rome-India trade. It was a bit of a technical Classics paper, dealing with the question of the alleged trade deficit between Rome and India during the Julio-Claudian emperors, so I really didn’t have a chance to talk about Christian contacts. I had tried to get my thesis advisor for my PhD to let me do my thesis on Rome and Indian cultural contacts (for which there is substantial evidence in imperial sources including embassies from India, Indian ‘Brahmens’ coming to Roman territory (and, memmorably, one even immolating himself at an Olympic Games), Christian contacts with India etc. He didn’t go for it because I don’t think he really got what I was on about. I still think about that project from time to time.

I’ll have to hunt up the Mundaden and Menachery sometime, especially if I ever, amid having a new baby in December, decide to revive the India-Rome project.

Peace,
Phil

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