Benad, Matthias2019-09-252019-09-252013-07-1519981434-5935http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/191131That God has to become man in order to reveal the being of God to mankind is a belief not only held by Christianity. In Bhagavata Purana, one of the holy scriptures of Hinduism, God Vishnu speaks the sentence quoted above when he is incarnated as Krishna. In a world getting ever smaller, awareness of other religions gains more and more importance. It is my purpose to show what contribution the theological field I represent, ecclesiastical history or historical theology, may make towards getting to know other religions and seeking dialogue with them. I will use the worship of Krishna in the following text to exemplify my propositions. My explanations are set out in five parts: (I) two traditions of how God became man; (II) the problem and purpose of inter-religious encounter; (III) historical theology as history; (IV) historical theology as theology; (V) thoughts about dialogue with other religions as an encounter between two things of comparable significance.engWith permission of the license/copyright holdertheologyinter-religious dialoguehinduismChristianityReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsGeneral and historicalTheological ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueChristian-HinduTheology of religionsFounders, leaders of religionsGeneral theology/otherArticle