Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Volume 13 Article 13

January 2000

Tributes: Sara Grant, RSCJ

Bradley J. Malkovsky

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Wilhelm Halbfass - An Appreciation by Francis X Clooney

WILHELM HALBFASS, PROFESSOR scholarship has been enormously helpful in of Indian Philosophy in Asian and Middle the field of Hindu-Christian studies. He ably Eastern Studies and South Asia Regional retrieved and situated the works of Sankara, Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, offered important insights into the herme­ died 25 May 2000 after suffering a brain neutics of the Mimamsa tradition, analysed hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma on 23 traditional Indian views of religious May. Dr Halbfass had just turned 60 years diversity, and retrieved for contemporary old. He had been on the faculty at Penn reflection the difficult and somewhat since 1973, when lie came as a visiting lec­ obscure work of the Vaisesika school. His turer and then became an associate professor masterful Indien und Europa: Perspektiven the following year. He was promoted to full ihrer geistigen Begegnung, revised and professor in 1982. The author of six books, published in English as and Europe: numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, and An Essay in Understanding, provided a rich book reviews, in 1997 his work was recog­ and insightful analysis of the history 'of the nized by 25 colleagues and former students interactions of Indians and Westerners, in Beyond Orientalism: The Work of Wil­ Hindus and Christians, and can be justly helm Halbfass and its Impact on Indian and recognized as one of the normative defining Cross-Cultural Studies, edited by E. Franco works for the field of Hindu-Christian and K. Preisendanz. His responses to each of studies. the essays in this 650-page volume are He is survived by his wife, Helga, his typical of his conscientious, courteous, and two daughters, his parents, and a brother. He meticulous scholarship. will be sorely missed by all those who read While Wilhelm Halbfass did not his works, by his colleagues and students, characterize his work as theology or engage and by all of us who have met this formally in interreligious dialogue, his formidable and gentle scholar. Sara Grant, RSCJ - An Appreciation by BradleyJ: Malkovsky

SARA GRANT WAS a Catholic the University of Cambridge in 1989, will be (RSCJ), originally from Scotland, who lived . re-appearing from the Univ~rsity of Notre in India since the 1950s. She was a professor Dame Press (Indiana, USA) within a year or of Indian thought both in Bombay and two. Her dissertation on the role of relation Poona, and spent many years as co-acarya of in Sankara appeared recently in India. In the Christa Prema Seva Ashram in Poona. 1993 she received the Ba-Bapu Puraskar Her specialty was Sankara and Sankara's Prize by Gandhians in (the first year it significance for Christian theology and was awarded) for a life exemplifying the spirituality. She counted precepts and ideals of the Mahatma. Two and .Swami among her years later the All-India Association for closest friends. Her spiritual and intellectual Chrif';tian Higher Education conferred upon autobiography, Towards an Alternative her its eminent Ecumenical Educator Award Theology: Confessions of a Non-Dualist in recognition of her' efforts in promoting Christian (Bangalore: Asian Trading, 1991), intercultural and interreligious under­ originally the Teape Lectures delivered at standing.

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