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Eli Stanley Jones was an American 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian.

He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and the Nehru family. Gandhi challenged Jones and, through Jones' writing, the thousands of Western missionaries working there during the last decades of the British Raj, to include greater respect for the mindset and strengths of the Indian character in their work.This effort to contextualize Christianity for India was the subject of his seminal work, The Christ of the Indian Road , which sold more than 1 million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.

He is also the founder of the Christian Ashram movement. He is sometimes considered the "Billy Graham of India". If William Carey was considered the "Father of Modern Missions" in the 18th century, Eli Stanley Jones was the same in the 20th century in his own way. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. January 1884 – 25. January 1973
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