Inhabiting the Christian–Hindu Threshold presents a disciplined model of interreligious learning shaped by Francis X. D’Sa, SJ. The volume gathers scholars who treat dialogue as a craft: beginning with performance, moving to text, and returning to lived practice. Two anchors guide the method. First, D’Sa’s use of dhvani (resonance) protects layered meaning from premature doctrinal closure. Second, a cosmotheandric horizon (divine–human–cosmic interrelatedness) measures interpretations by the quality of worship, ethics, and shared life they enable. Contributors apply these tools across scripture, theology, education, ecology, business ethics, and pedagogy, offering practical procedures—naming positionality, specifying versions, co-reading with communities, and welcoming counter-voices—that resist extraction, harmonization, and ventriloquy. The result is neither syncretism nor relativism but accountable reciprocity: Christian thinkers learn with Indian categories while Hindu archives are received on their own terms. This book turns aspiration into teachable method and equips classrooms, communities, and civic forums to inhabit thresholds with truth and care. This volume acknowledges the invaluable contribution of Prof D’Sa towards inter-cultural encounter and intellectual depth crossing borders.

This book is fondly and gratefully presented to Francis X. D’Sa, SJ, by his friends, colleagues, students and well-wishers. He is a Jesuit priest and scholar based in Pune whose work bridges Indian philosophical traditions and Christian theology. A long-time member of Jnana Deepa (the Jesuit pontifical institute in Pune), he has been listed among its eminent faculty in Indian Studies, shaping generations of students in hermeneutics and interreligious thought. His early scholarly landmark, Sabdaprama?yam in Sabara and Kumarila, probed language and authority in Mima?sa, and is still cited in studies of Hindu philosophy and hermeneutics. D’Sa’s mature writings turn to Hindu–Christian dialogue and comparative theology; a Festschrift, Crossing the Borders, portrays him as a “boundary crosser” whose method joins rigorous philology with dialogical openness between the East and West. Recent essays continue this trajectory, engaging Raimon Panikkar’s “diatopical hermeneutics” and the Bhagavad Gita’s holistic vision.

Taken together, his corpus models a distinctive Indian Christian theology—rooted in Sanskritic sources, intellectually exacting, and oriented to mutual understanding across traditions.