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Max Hunter Harrison (December 24, 1893 – 1986) was the Principal 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. He later studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Divinity School. His dissertation was later published with the title, Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them.

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 education
• 1957, After Ten Years.

References

1. ^ K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997, Bangalore, 1997. Former members of staff, p.1.
2. Harvard Magazine, Volume 88, 1985, p.115
3. General Catalogue of Andover Newton Theological School
4. ^ The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 133, Missionary herald, 1937, p.315.
5. The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 133, Missionary herald, 1937, p.315.
6. Harvard Alumni Directory, Harvard University, 1948, p.1120
7. ^ Max Hunter Harrisonm, Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them, Oxford University Press, 1932.
8. ^ 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.
9. M. H. Harrison, The place of Old Testament studies in Indian theological education, Indian Journal of Theology, Volume 5.1 (Mar. 1956): 1-8.

• Indian Christian theologians
• Academic staff of the Senate of Serampore College (University)
• 1893 births
• 1986 deaths
• Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
• Harvard Divinity School alumni
• Knox College (Illinois) alumni
• Andover Newton Theological School alumni