Weber, Edmund2019-09-252019-09-252013-07-2020001434-5935http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/191215The basic argument the canonical and apocryphal theologies of the South Indian Tamil Shrivaishnavas grow worm over since centuries is the question: Has God set into motion the process of salvation in order to save mankind - the anthropocentric tradition is teaching, or in order to save himself, the way a theocentric soteriology would teach. To answer this question we have to examine particularly the theocentric religion of salvation because it was held apocryphal by the anthropocentric orthodoxy and has therefore to be reconstructed from sources that are all concealed anthropocentricallyengWith permission of the license/copyright holderVaishnavismHindu ethicshinduismReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueArticle