Sydney S. Salins is a New Testament scholar who teachesDaijiworld, Mangalore: Rev Cabral Installed as Principal of Karnataka Theological College, 28 October 2009. at the Karnataka Theological College,Choo Lak Yeow, Doing theology with religions of Asia, ATESEA, 1987, p.185. Mangalore, a seminary established in 1965Vijaya Kumar, Ecumenical Cooperation of the Missions in Karnataka (India), 1834-1989: A Historical Analysis of the Evangelistic Strategy of the Missions, ISPCK, New Delhi, 2005, p.132. and affiliated to the nation's firstUNESCO Structures of University Education in India, 1952 university, the Senate of Serampore College (University).
Salins was a participant at the original exploratory committee on dialogue in 1997Giovanni Cereti, S. J. Voicu, J. F. Puglisi, Enchiridion oecumenicum: documenti del dialogo teologico interconfessionale, EDB, 2006, p.1465. conducted by the World Council of ChurchesJeffrey Gros, Thomas F. Best, Lorelei F Fuchs, SA, Growth in Agreement III: International Dialogue Texts and Agreed Statements, 1998-2005, WCC Publications, Geneva, 2007, p.497.
Studies Salins had his ministerial formation at the United Theological College, Bangalore, between 1970 and 1974,K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997, Bangalore, 1997. Past students of the college diploma course, p.46; Past students of the postgraduate course, p.117. studying along with his companion John Sadananda for a Bachelor of Divinity (B. D.) awarded by the Senate of Serampore College (University) under the registrarship of J. T. Krogh. Again from 1980 to 1982, Salins studied along with another companion Surya Prakash for a postgraduate course specialising in the New Testament under J. G. F. Collison and K. James Carl and submitted a dissertation entitled A study of the use of the christological title, "Son of Man" in the writings up to 325 ADThesis Titles, Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College, Bangalore, 1991, p.9 for which he was awarded a Master of Theology (M. Th.) degree by the university under the Registrarship of D. S. Satyaranjan.
Teaching ministry Soon after his graduate studies at the Protestant Regional Seminary in Bangalore, Salins began teaching at the Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore, from 1974 onwards and later availed study leave to equip himself with a postgraduate degree in New Testament in 1982. After a forty-year teaching ministry that began in 1974,Roland Gierth, Christian life and work at the pastorate level and practical theology in South India: an inquiry based on 16 field studies of selected Church of South India pastorates in Bangalore and the Kolar Gold Fields (Karnataka Central Diocese) and a survey of Indian publications on the field of practical theology, Christian Literature Society, Chennai, 1977, p.80. Salins retired in early 2015 on attaining superannuation but continues to teach at the Seminary in Mangalore.
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