Abstract
An observed pattern of behaviour of a community can be either looked at as a phenomenon to be explained or as an embodiment of knowledge disposition to be learned. This paper first suggests that Balagangadhara's project can be best understood as one concerned with the knowledge dispositions bequeathed by the pasts of different groups of people rather than culture as phenomenon. Second, one can divide knowledge into two varieties: information and skills. To these must be added the attitudes or stances expressed in the way one leads one's life as an important knowledge disposition, especially when the focus is on the inheritance of a culture. It is argued that the concern of 'The Heathen in His Blindness...' is one of conceptualizing the attitudes or stances inherited by the pasts of different people and make them available for learning. This paper also attempts to answer the question: why the task of conceptualizing the Asian attitude or stance must take the indirect route of building a theory of the specific nature of the Christian discourse.
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