Raimon Panikkar, priest, theologian, pioneer of interreligious understanding died 10 yrs ago on Aug 26 2010. The son of a Catholic mother from Spain and a Hindu father from India, he found the path to reconciling his religious identity when he traveled to India in 1954.
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“I left Europe as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned a Buddhist without ever ceasing to be a Christian.” In what he called the “cosmotheandric principle” he found the interplay between God, humanity, and the cosmos that runs through all religions.
His interreligious explorations did not diminish his Christian identity, he said; they enabled him to grasp and verify the truth that Christ is everywhere, in the nature of reality and other religious paths. His Omnia Opera, in progress
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