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The faculty has been established to impart religious
studies based on the fusion of the Gospel and modern means of farming. In
the year 1903, Dr. Sam Higginbottom came to India and on being touched by
the poverty of the Indian farmer's he decided to open an institute where
agricultural knowledge along with knowledge of the Gospel could be imparted
to the farmers and students of India.
The sacred-secular dichotomy world view tends to perceive theology as a
study that deals only with the realm of the 'sacred'-limited within the four
walls of the Church, having no relevance for the day-to-day existence and
struggles of man. But theological studies in the true sense is 'holistic';
it does not separate God from His creation. That's the kind of theological
training that the faculty aims to provide, which is in line with our
founder's vision: Gospel and Plough. A training which is not limited only
for those who would be in the full time paid priesthood activities but
extended to the whole people of God, in the church at and in the society at
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