Georges Dandoy, S.J., The Doctrine of the Unreality of the World in the Advaita (1919)

Abstract (Lang: English):This essay focuses on a particular facet of Christian-Hindu engagement. Its context is the “Calcutta School” of twentieth-century Roman Catholic Indologists and their comparative explorations in Thomist-Vedantic theology. The history of these interactions has been written about elsewhere, and certain figures (for example, Pierre Johanns and Richard De Smet) are reasonably well known. Here, I look at one of the lesser-known members of this “school,” Georges Dandoy, S.J., and his monograph on “The Unreality of the World in Advaita.” I seek to locate Dandoy in the Thomist currents of his time and show how these currents influenced his reading of the Advaita tradition..