Gaddala Solomon
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President G. Solomon STBC |
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| The Reverend | |
| Native name | మహ గనుడు గద్దల సొలమన్ అయ్యగరు |
| Church | Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches (Protestant) |
| In office | 1978-1982 |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society |
| Rank | Baptist Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Gaddala Solomon |
| Born |
December 28, 1910 Ramayapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Died | February 6, 1993 (aged 82) Secunderabad, Telangana, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Denomination | Christianity |
| Parents | Smt. Alice-amma and Sri David |
| Occupation | Priesthood |
| Previous post |
Priest, STBC-Centenary Baptist Church (1977-1986) Lecturer, Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad (1973-1977) Lecturer, Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary, Ramayapatnam (1958-1972) |
| Education |
B.A. Mathematics (Andhra), B.D. (Serampore), Th.M. (Eastern) |
| Alma mater |
Andhra Christian College, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) United Theological College, Bangalore (Karnataka) Palmer Theological Seminary, King of Prussia (United States) |
G. Solomon (Telugu: గద్దల సొలమన్ అయ్యగరు) (born 28 December 1910; died 6 February 1993) was an Old Testament Scholar and a Baptist Patriarch hailing from the Protestant Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches Society (an affiliate member of the Baptist World Alliance and the National Council of Churches in India) and led it as its President during the years 1978-1982 overseeing the spiritual affairs of the Church Society whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction comprises the three states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with 873 Churches comprising nearly a million members per present statistics.
In 1957, Solomon made a comparative analysis of suffering as viewed in two ancient scriptures, one from the Ancient Near East and the other from the Indian subcontinent where he provides the respective literature on suffering in both the scriptures, its genesis and outlook and some common insights between the two, particularly on retribution (see Klaus Koch (1955): Is there a Doctrine of Retribution in the Old Testament). Solomon highlights the example of Job (biblical figure) where the sufferer endures it with the thought of a glimmer of hope some day or the other reposing unflinching trust in God. Old Testament Scholars down the line have drawn parallels on Prophet Job and Raja Satya Harishchandra providing scholarly insights into the problem of suffering endured by these two legends and how they overcame it for a cause. A chronological analysis of the comparative literature on the problem of suffering in addition to the one by Solomon, reveals that John Bowker came out with Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World in 1970 where suffering as viewed by the diverse religions of the world has been presented. Later, in 1979, the Pune-based inquisitive Chemical engineers of the National Chemical Laboratory namely S. Prabhakara Rao and M. Prakasa Reddy came out with Job and His Satan - Parallels in Indian Scripture which was published in the German Old Testament scholarly journal, ZAW. A couple of years' later, David J. A. Clines came out with a research paper entitled In Search of the Indian Job where he provides a century of scholarly research on Job and Raja Satya Harishchandra that appeared in the Vetus Testamentum. Later in 1998, a Scholar at the St. Peter's Pontifical Seminary, Bangalore studying under Anthony Raymond Ceresko and Gnana Robinson researched specifically on Job and Harishchandra focusing on the problem of suffering.
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