Regunta Yesurathnam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Regunta Yesurathnam

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: Nirmal, Telangana, India

Date of Death: 08-Aug-2011

Profession: priest, theologian

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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 who served as Faculty Member from 1974 through 2001 in Secunderabad, Telangana, India, at the Andhra Christian Theological College, affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University). Yesurathnam has been acknowledged for his contribution to the disciplines of Dialogical Theology and Comparative religion.As a pupil of another CSI systematic theologian, Joshua Russell Chandran, under whom he was groomed in the 1960s, Yesurathnam established himself as a scholar and during the subsequent decade, as evidenced by his interest in Dialogical Theology, Yesurathnam seemed to have been influenced by the religious scholars Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, of the Church of South India (CSI), Herbert Jai Singh, of the Methodist Church in India (MCI) and David C.
Scott, also of the MCI.
During the initial years of his doctoral research in the 1970s, it was Arvind P.
Nirmal, CNI (the proponent of Dalit theology) who supervised and enabled Yesurathnam to push through his doctoral studies.