Gnana Robinson

Influences of Hinduism on Christianity, TTS, Madurai, 1980 Let us be like the Nations: A Commentary on the Books of I & II Samuel, Handsel Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8028-0608-2 Gnana Robinson (17 March 1935 – 3 February 2019) was an Indian Biblical scholar who studied the Old Testament.

[1] Robinson later studied at Scott Christian College and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.

[2] Robinson was zealous for his studies and obtained permission from his diocese to pursue a Master of Theology degree in Bengaluru.

He was Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg in 1982,[2] and also taught at the St. Andrew's Theological College in the West Indies that same year.

While serving as the Principal of UTC, Bengaluru, friends of the Professor brought out a 377-page festschrift in his honour edited by his junior colleague Rev.

Dr. D. Jones Muthunayagam entitled Bible Speaks Today: Essays in honour of Gnana Robinson, ISPCK, 2000, ISBN 81-7214-545-4 The Senate of Serampore College, West Bengal, the first University in India with degree-granting authority elected Gnana Robinson as its President in 1986.

Robinson was acknowledged to have provided leadership to the Senate which has over fifty theological colleges from South Asia affiliated to it.

After retiring as the Principal of the UTC, Bengaluru, Gnana was invited by the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia where he was Visiting Professor until 2001.