Global InformationChetty Bhanumurthy information
Chetty Bhanumurthy, CBCNC | |
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| Born | February 23, 1888[1] Cocanada (Madras Presidency) |
| Died | January 6, 1973 (aged 84)[1] Andhra Pradesh |
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| Years active | 1912-1973 (61 years) |
| Known for | Lyrical compositions in Telugu Christian Hymnal |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Church | Canadian Baptist Mission/Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars |
Congregations served | CBM-Andhra Baptist Church, Kakinada (1913-1914/1918-1919) |
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| Title | The Reverend |
Chetti Bhanumurti (born 23 February 1888;[2] died 6 January 1973[1]) was a Hymn Writer whose hymns are found in the Hymnal in Telugu.[3] Bhanumurti was a Pastor of the Canadian Baptist Mission/Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars who also led the Principalship of the Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada from 1945-1956 leading to its affiliation to the nation's first[4] University, Senate of Serampore College (University) in 1946[5]
Comparative religion Scholar R. R. Sundara Rao who researched at the University of Wisconsin–Madison highlighted the literary standard of Chetty Bhanumurti terming him as a pioneer hymn writer whose songs had the element of Bhakti.[6] The Old Testament Scholar, Victor Premasagar was also enthused by the lyrical content in Bhanumurti's compositions,[7] especially Hymn Number 94 titled Yesuku Samanulevaru (Translated Who is equal to you Lord?) with direct reference to Psalm 71:19 and strikingly similar to Tyagaraja's composition in Kharaharapriya. Dayanandan Francis brings Chetti Bhanumurti in the line of another Hymn writer, Puroshottam Choudhary and writes,
Like Choudari, Bhanumurti also is interested in picking up ideas, thought-forms and even ragas from popular Hindu poems and lyrics, while at the same time endeavouring to broaden the perspectives found in such religious literary forms with distinctive Christian ideas.
- ^ a b c Roger E. Hedlund, Jesudas M. Athyal, Joshua Kalapati, and Jessica Richard (Edited), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity, 2012. [1]
- ^ Mary Stillwell McLaurin, Chetti Bhanumurti in John Craig, J. R. Stillwell, I. C. Archibald, A. E. Baskerville (Edited), Some of the Trophies: Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board Jubilee Volume, Telugu Trophies - The Jubilee story of some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924, American Baptist Publication Society, Toronto. [2]
- ^ Andhra Christian Hymnal, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1966
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Murliwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Orville E. Daniel, Rising Tides in India, Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board, 1963, p.91. [3]
- ^ R. R. Sundara Rao, Bhakti theology in the Telugu hymnal, CISRS/CLS, Bangalore/Chennai, 1983. [4]
- ^ T. Dayanandan Francis, Attempts at Critical Assimilation in Regional Christian Literature: A Tamil Perspective in H. S. Wilson (Edited), The Church on the Move: A Quest to Affirm the Biblical Faith - Essays in honour of P. Victor Premasagar, CLS, Chennai, 1988, pp.135-144 [5]