Prologue: Reflections on Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

I am honored to contribute to this special issue of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies that calls to the attention of a wide readership the considerable accomplishment of the fifteen years of this Vaishnava-Christian dialogue. I am happy to add some thoughts here, though I have been only minimally involved in this series of meetings. It is true that I was a member of the first of these dialogues in 1996 and came again for the one in 2010, but while I have had many other occasions to converse with Hindus and work with them in many contexts, I have never engaged in so specific and focused a dialogue as this 15 year long dedicated series.