Manilal C. Parekh

Manilal Chhotalal Parekh (1885-1967), a Gujarati convert to Anglican church, was an Indian Christian theologian, and the founder of Hindu Church of Christ - free from Western influence - opposing Western and institutional nature of Christianity in India.[1][2][3][4][5]

He developed a new syncretistic Jesus-Yogi model, identifying himself as a Hindu disciple of Jesus Christ - although, Jesus never knew of Yoga, Parekh credited him with being a Yogi by birth. He authored several books, especially A Hindu's Portrait of Christ that constructed a portrait of Christ from a Hindu point of view.[2][4][6]

  1. ^ "The Complicated Case of Manilal C. Parekh" (PDF). ijfm.org. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Manilal C. Parekh.(1885-1967)" (PDF). fga.it. p. 11. Retrieved 26 May 2012. he was a Christian, baptised in the Anglican Church. His reason for accepting baptism was that without openly professing to be a disciple of Christ he had no right to preach Christ.
  3. ^ "A Jain Believer in Christ - Manilal C. Parekh". sermoncentral.com. 31 July 2003. Retrieved 26 May 2012. Manilal C. Parekh was born in 1885 in Rajkot, western Gujarat, India, belonging to the Bania Jain community. He was attracted to Christ when, during an illness in 1903, after entering University, he read the book Imitation of Christ.
  4. ^ a b Jongeneel, Jan A. B. (2009). Jesus Christ in World History: His Presence and Representation in Cyclical and Linear Settings. Peter Lang. p. 272. ISBN 9783631596883.
  5. ^ Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.) (19 February 2018). Jesus in Asia. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-674-05113-3. OCLC 1002826472.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ "Hindu Interpretation of Christ from Vivekananda to Radhakrishnan" (PDF). biblicalstudies.org.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2012. With Bhai Manilal Parekh's A Hindu Portrait of Jesus Christ, which was published in Rajkot in 1953.