Joshua Russell Chandran
| Joshua Russell Chandran | |
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| Born |
6 May 1918 Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Died | 27 September 2000 (aged 82) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Other names | Chandran |
| Education |
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| Church | Church of South India, Diocese of Kanyakumari |
| Ordained | 20 October 1946 |
| Writings | See separate section |
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Offices held
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| Title | Reverend Doctor |
Joshua Russell Chandran (1918–2000) was an Indian Christian theologian, who served as President of Senate of Serampore College, Bengal (1970–1), and as President of the United Theological College, Bangalore (1954–83), and was for some years a vice-chairman of the World Council of Churches (1966–68).
Joshua Russell Chandran was born in Nagercoil, South India on 6 May 1918 into a family who were communicant members of the South India United Church. After schooling and collegiate education, he took his BA and MA in Mathematics at the University of Madras, Chennai (1933–1938).
In 1941 he enrolled at the United Theological College, Bengaluru in 1941, where he took his B.D. in 1945.
Chandran belonged to the South India United Church; which made him a pastor of South Travancore Church Council in 1945. He was ordained on 20 October 1946, and he continued serving as pastor until 1947.
in 1947 he left India for Britain, to study at the University of Oxford, Mansfield College,Oxford for pursuing a B.Litt.. His B.Litt. thesis was entitledA Comparison of the pagan apologetic of Celsus against Christianity as contained in Origen's Contra Celsum and the neo-Hindu attitude to Christianity as represented in the works of Vivekananda and an estimate of the value of Origen's reply for Christian apologetics with reference to neo-Hinduism.
He then studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York, during the academic year 1949–1950 earning an S.T.M..
On his return to India in 1950 the Church of South India asked him to teach theology and ethics at the United Theological College,Bengaluru then under the Principalship of Max Hunter Harrison. In 1954 Chandran succeeded Max Hunter Harrison as Principal, and remained in post until 1983, when he was succeeded by E. C. John.
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