Nature, history and spirit: A theological investigation on nature, history and spirit in trialogue among western secularism, Hindu spiritualism and Christian trinitarian faith

Abstract

It is evident today that both eastern and western nations recognize that modern means of communication, transportation, progress in technology, and the inter-mingling of different peoples have created a "global village". This increasing awareness of space consciousness has stimulated a new dimension in our understanding of space and time, or in other words, in our understanding of the nature and history of the universe. This has led us to believe that there is a closer relationship between nature and history than previously thought. We propose to show that the "spirit" is the key which relates nature and history and thereby offers a unified concept of reality which integrates eastern and western thought.