Prasanna Kumari Samuel, 56, feminist theologian
and a former Lutheran World Federation vice president, died March 16 in
Chennai, India, of a heart attack.
Kumari Samuel was one
of the first two Lutheran women ordained 15 years ago in India. She
played a key role in the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches of
India’s work to help improve the lives of women in slum areas (see "A call for justice").
At
the time of her death, Kumari Samuel served as a professor of New
Testament and head of women’s studies at Gurukul Lutheran Theological
College in Chennai. She was also vice president of the National Council
of Churches in India. She had a doctorate of divinity, but was to have
received another doctorate in May 2006 from the Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago.
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