User talk:Gaitherbill

Christianity in India

This is about your comments in the edits of Christianity in India on May 3, 2011. Mar Thoma Church is not a Reformed Church. No reformation as they had in the Western Churches, had taken place in the Malankara Church. In fact, it was not a reformation but was a kind of cleansing of the Malankara Church. It was something similar to what is given in the Bible Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-17 and Luke 19:45-46. Please read the Section Cleansing of the Church – Reformation, in the article Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church.

It is not a protestant Church. Malankara Church was not a part of the Catholic Church, the Antiochean Church or that of the Anglican Church. All through out it was an Independent Church. Safeguarding one’s independence is not protesting.

Usually Churches are divided into two, the Western and the Eastern. The Eastern Churches are again divided into two, the Orthodox and the Oriental. Mar Thoma Church is an Eastern Oriental Church. That is, it is neither a Western Church nor an Orthodox Church.Neduvelilmathew (talk) 17:18, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

One alternative I would suggest is that we include the Marthoma Church along with the other two eastern rite churches mentioned. However to clarify my position on this, I would like to point out that 'cleansing' of a church is very much akin to reformation. Most major protestant denominations such as the Anglicans, Lutherans have only cleansed the Catholic church, retaining a majority of the preceding traditions. Therefore the Marthoma Church is in its true sense a protestant denomination. It is also in communion with both the CSI and the CNI. As for Eastern Oriental, the name sounds like a misnomer since both Eastern and Oriental mean the same. The name is also obscure and not easily reconginsed by Christians and Non-Christians alike (I personally have never heard Eastern Oriental.). My suggestion is that we keep the status quo or include it with the other Eastern churches. --Gaitherbill (talk) 06:26, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Article Muziris

It seems that the quality of the article Muziris is below standards.

Pls contribute to make it good? (Rameez pp (talk) 13:19, 30 June 2011 (UTC))