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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.
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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
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Chandran served as Vice Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches from 1966 to 1968. His contribution to ecumenism was
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What is Man?: Theological Attempts and Directions Towards the Formation of an Indian Christian Anthropology for Today
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In the academic year 1964–65, Chandran was Henry Winters Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity at the
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On his return to India in 1950 the Church of South India asked him to teach theology and ethics at the
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He then studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York, during the academic year 1949–1950 earning an
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A Vision for Man: Essays on Faith, Theology, and Society in Honour of Joshua Russell Chandran
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A Comparison of the pagan apologetic of Celsus against Christianity as contained in Origen's
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in West Bengal conferred upon Russell Chandran an honorary doctorate in 1962.
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in 1947 he left India for Britain, to study at the University of Oxford,
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As the first Indian Principal of the United Theological College,
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Although Russell Chandran retired in 1984, he began living in
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In 1978 Samuel Amirtham and others also came out with a
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On 27 September 2000, Joshua Russell Chandran died in
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In 1970 and 1971 he also served as President of the
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Nagercoil
Bengaluru
University of Madras
Chennai
MA
United Theological College
Bengaluru
Honours
Mansfield College, Oxford
B.Litt.
Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York
S.T.M.
Church of South India
United Theological College
Bengaluru
Senate of Serampore College
Nagercoil
South India
MA
University of Madras
United Theological College
Bengaluru
Mansfield College
Oxford
B.Litt.
Contra Celsum
S.T.M.
United Theological College
Bengaluru
Bengaluru

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