Regunta Yesurathnam

Regunta Yesurathnam (16 October 1941 - 8 August 2011) was a Priest hailing from the Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India, headquartered in Medak, notable as a Systematic Theologian and served as Faculty Member from 1974 through 2001 in Secunderabad, Telangana, India at the Andhra Christian Theological College, affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.

Yesurathnam has been acknowledged for his contribution to the discplines of Dialogical Theology and Comparative religion and his works were listed in the Elenchus of Biblica, an annual bibliography listing published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, and his writings began appearing in academic journals that included Dialogue and Alliance, National Council of Churches Review and the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Paul Arvid Sartison (2008) who researched at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, using a Comparative religion approach to Avatara and Incarnation, puts Yesurathnam in the line of other notable Religions Scholars, namely, Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Daniel Bassuk,Richard De Smet, SJ, Noel Sheth, and Julius J. Lipner.