George Soares-Prabhu, SJ (1929-1995) was one of the stalwarts of Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth. I Ie exercised enormous influence on his students and colleagues, challenging them to rethink Christian faith in a way that would bring it alive in the Indian context, especially the context of the poor. He was a biblical scholar, and his theology was “distinctly a biblical theology of liberation seen through Indian eyes.” It is that sensitivity to the Indian context that led him coin the phrase “dharma of Jesus”. The Sanskrit word dharma has many meanings and is used in the Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, besides that family of religions known as I linduism. Coming from the root dhr, meaning ‘to hold’ or ‘to support’ it might be taken to mean as ‘that which upholds’. Roughly it can mean the ‘metaphysical basis of religion’, ‘cosmic order’, ‘ethical code of conduct’, ‘teachings’ of a guru, and so on. With such rich meanings, it becomes immediately clear as to how apt the word dharma is for describing what Jesus taught, and, above all, lived. In grateful memory o f Soares-Prabhu’s contributions, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth organized a seminar in October 2014. The essays in this issue were presented at that seminar.