C. D. Jathanna (Constantine Devaprasad Jathanna) (6 July 1928 - 23 July 1996) was the fourthK. M. George, ''Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997'', Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp.36-41.

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headquartered in Bangalore with the ''Cathedra'' of the Bishop placed at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore.

Studies

Graduate

Jathanna studied

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completing it by 1951. For a year he worked as a Rationing Officer with the

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''(erstwhile Government of Madras)'' before proceeding for spiritual studies at the

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during the years 1952-1955K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), ''Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997'', Bangalore, 1997. p.25 where he studied along with E. C. John,

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, N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel and others.

Post-graduate

In 1958 he pursued a postgraduate degree, Master of Theology at the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia,

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entitling his dissertation as ''

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and Berith in the

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''.C. D. Jathanna, ''

and Berith in the

'', M. Th. Thesis at the

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, May 1958 available at the Archives in the library of

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Research studies

In 1964 Jathanna got a scholarship of the Mission-Academy and went on study leave to the

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where he studied Old Testament at the Faculty of Evangelical Theology under Klaus Koch, a direct student of Gerhard von Rad. In 1967 he was able to complete his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professors Hans Joachim Kraus and Marie-Louise Henry which was later published in 1969 under the title ''The Covenant and covenant making in Pentateuch''.Constantine Devaprasad Jathanna, ''The Covenant and covenant making in Pentateuch'', University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 1969.

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Ecclesiastical career

After completing studies in spirituality at the

in 1955, Jathanna was the secretary of the Student Christian Movement (Karnataka Unit) from 1955 through 1957. From 1959 onwards Jathanna was assigned a pastoral role and served as an evangelist before his ordination in 1960. From 1961 onwards, Jathanna taught at the B. E. M. Theological Seminary in Mangalore (now

serving also as vice-principal of the seminary. After completing doctoral studies in 1967, he was appointed principal of the

. Jathanna was a member of the Senate of Serampore College (University) and was a member of its research committee. In 1980, Jathanna visited the

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along with Klaus Koch (who was visiting professor at the

as part of the research committee of the Senate.

Recognition and honour

John Sadananda, a colleague of Jathanna at the

edited a

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in honour of Jathanna which was entitled ''Vision and Reality: Essays in Honour of Constantine D. Jathanna'' published by the College in 1989. In 1993, the country's first university, the Senate of Serampore College (University) under the Registrarship of D. S. Satyaranjan conferred the honorary doctorate degree by

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upon Jathanna.

References

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