Max Hunter Harrison
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| name = Max Hunter Harrison, ABCFM
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| honorific_suffix = Old Testament Exegete
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1893|12|24}}
| birth_place = Victoria, Illinois
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1985|02|20|1893|12|24}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=0_Y7AAAAMAAJ&q=Max%20Hunter%20Harrison%2020%20february%201986 Harvard Magazine, Volume 88, 1985, p.115]
| death_place = Newton, Massachusetts
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| years_active = 1918–1985 (67 years)
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- Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois {{small|(1911-1913)}}
- Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, Massachusetts {{small|(1913-1917)}}
- Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts {{small|(1916-1917)}}
- Union Theological Seminary (New York City) {{small|(1926-1928)}}
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| religion = Christianity
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| ordained = 21 June 1918, West Newbury
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| offices_held = Principal, United Theological College, Bengaluru {{small|(1937-1954)}}
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Max Hunter Harrison (24 December 1893[http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/General_Catalogue_1000882808/99 General Catalogue of Andover Newton Theological School] – 1986K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997, Bangalore, 1997. Former members of staff, p.1.) was the PrincipalThe Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 133, Missionary herald, 1937, p.315. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zkPmAAAAMAAJ&q=max+hunter+harrison] of the United Theological College (Bangalore), the only autonomous College under the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University).
Studies
Harrison graduated from Knox College with a major in Mathematics and Greek. He then enrolled for a spiritual course at the Andover Newton Theological School, Newton where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree.The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 133, Missionary herald, 1937, p.315. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zkPmAAAAMAAJ&q=knox] He later studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Divinity School.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wHkNAQAAMAAJ&q=hunter Harvard Alumni Directory, Harvard University, 1948, p.1120] His dissertation was later published with the title, Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them.Max Hunter Harrisonm, Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them, Oxford University Press, 1932. [https://books.google.com/books?id=duQYAAAAIAAJ&q=andover]
Principalship
In 1937, Harrison was appointed as the Principal of the Seminary and served until 1954 when J. R. Chandran took over.
K. M. Hiwale, a past Registrar of the college records that Harrison taught at the college during two periods, 1931-1958 and again from 1963 to 1965.
Writings
- 1932, Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them
- 1956, The place of Old Testament studies in Indian theological educationM. H. Harrison, The place of Old Testament studies in Indian theological education, Indian Journal of Theology, Volume 5.1 (Mar. 1956): 1-8.[http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_ijt_01.php]
- 1957, After Ten Years.M. H. Harrison, After Ten Years. Cited in Yorke Allen, A Seminary Survey: A Listing and Review of the Activities of the Theological Schools and Major Seminaries Located in Africa, Asia, and Latin America which are Training Men to Serve as Ordained Ministers and Priests in the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Churches, Harper, 1960, p.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dYQ9AAAAYAAJ&q=M.+H.+harrison+bangalore]
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United Theological College, Bengaluru
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United Theological College, Bengaluru
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Category:Indian Christian theologians
Category:Academic staff of the Senate of Serampore College (University)
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
Category:Harvard Divinity School alumni