ajit.prasadam @shuats.edu.in
Department of Advanced Theological Studies
ajit.prasadam @shuats.edu.in
Department of Advanced Theological Studies
Professional Summary
Ajit A. Prasadam, General Secretary, India Sunday School Union, holds a Ph. D. and a Th.M., (Master of Theology) from Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS), USA, bachelor's and master's degrees, and a P.G. diploma in Clinical Pastoral Counselling from India. In India he attended Centre for Global Leadership Development (CGLD)(then SABC), Bangalore, Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, and United Theological College, Bangalore.
He also serves as Director of the St. Andrew Centre for HRD and Counselling, ISSU. He is a writer, author, speaker, counsellor, pastor, and an academic. In 2016 he was recognized by PTS, along with eleven other graduates of PTS, for his leadership and contribution to theological studies, church, and society. (http://reunion2016.ptsem.edu/presidents-panel/).
His working life is divided between academics and ministry. In academics his emphasis is on interdisciplinary studies (theology and the sciences with implications for ministry) for Master’s and Ph.D. students; and his ministry includes pastoral care and counselling and the child-care ministry. As chairperson, he oversees two organizations working with orphans, semi-orphans and destitute children, on a national scale. Under his inspiration and guidance, and that of the executive committee, ISSU is building an after-school tuition centre, the Educational Resource Centre (ERC) based on a model of transformational education, for under-privileged children on the ISSU campus, to reclaim its historic mission of educating the poor.
As an academic he has taught both in India and abroad, including at Princeton, at the graduate level. He is currently involved with graduate studies as a visiting professor in the following colleges: Centre for Global Leadership Development (CGLD), Bangalore, Providence College for Women, Coonoor, an autonomous college under Bharathiar University, M Sc in Counselling Psychology to Martin Luther University Students through CGLD, and at the Ph. D. level at SHUATS, (http://web.shiatsmail.edu.in/webwapp/coll_DATS.asp), a UGC recognized university, in Allahabad.
He has taught Constructive Theology, Human Development within a Theological Understanding, Wholeness or Holiness or Both? Carl G. Jung and James E. Loder, Servant-Leadership for Transformation, Philosophy (Western and Indian) for Understanding Theology, The Theory of Transformation, On Developing a Transformational Curriculum for Christian Education and Education in General, An Introduction to Theories of Therapies, Introduction to Christian Education, Introduction to Counselling within a Theological Understanding, Spiritual Theology, and so on.