>From Ivo Coelho (excerpt) The book was released<http://indianchristianwritings.blogspot.com/2010/03/release-of-brahman-and-person-in-pune.html>at the hands of Dr Noel Sheth, SJ, former President of Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, and well-known Indologist. Dr Sheth paid homage to Fr De Smet in glowing terms. Dr John Vattanky said a few words also about the person of De Smet and about the book
http://indianchristianwritings.blogspot.com/2010/03/release-of-brahman-and-person-in-pune.html ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto > From: <icso...@bsnl.in> > To: goa...@goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Richard De Smet > > I liked the book of the world-renowned Jesuit Indologist, Richard De Smet, > Brahman and Person: Essays by Richard De Smet. It was edited by Ivo Coelho. > Brahman and Person is a collection of fourteen essays by the late Richard De > Smet, SJ (1916-1997) on the topic of person in Indian thought. Overturning > the current interpretation, R.De Smet proposes that the nirguna Brahman can > be regarded as properly personal, provided person is understood in the > original and classical sense that emerged in the Christian efforet to speak > about the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.