The Faculty and Administration

Mary Elizabeth Moore


Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore is Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Theology and Education, Boston University. She delights in working with the exceptional faculty, students, and staff at the School of Theology, where people are working together to make new discoveries and to contribute to the wellbeing of God’s creation. Mary Elizabeth’s recent books include Teaching as a Sacramental Act, Ministering with the Earth, and Teaching from the Heart, plus the co-edited volumes Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World and Practical Theology and Hermeneutics. She has also written many articles on education, process and feminist theologies, and justice and reconciliation. Mary Elizabeth is married to Allen, and they have five children and eight grandchildren.


John H. Berthrong


Dr. John Berthrong, educated in Sinology at the University of Chicago, has been the Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs and Associate Professor of Comparative Theology at the Boston University School of Theology since 1989. Active in interfaith dialogue projects and programs, his teaching and research interests are in the areas of interreligious dialogue, Chinese religions and philosophy, and comparative philosophy and theology. His published and forthcoming books are All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue (SUNY Press [Chinese Translation from Renmin Chupanshe 2006]), The Transformations of the Confucian Way (Westview Press), and Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville (SUNY Press). He is co-editor with Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker of Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans published by Harvard University Press in 1998. In 1999 he published The Divine Deli (Orbis Books), a study of religious pluralism and multiple religious participation in North America. He also collaborated with Evelyn Nagai Berthrong on Confucianism: A Short Introduction (2000, OneWorld), which has been translated into Italian and Russian. He most recently co-edited, with Liu Shu-hsien and Leonard Swidler, Confucianism in Dialogue Today: West, Christianity & Judaism (2004) and has Expanding Process: Exploring Philosophical and Theological Transformations in China and the West published in 2008 from SUNY Press.


Imani-Sheila Newsome-Camara


Reverend Newsome-Camara, who previously served as Associate Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University, holds an MEd in educational consultation from the University of Vermont and an MDiv from Boston University School of Theology. She has pursued advanced studies in higher education and has been a Merrill Fellow at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University. As the Director of the Project for African American Religious Research and Education, she works to strengthen the relationship between the African American church and the School of  Theology. Her scholarly explorations include the development of the African American church in the African Diaspora, the history of leadership development in the African American church, and the development of the womanist theological voice in the United States and abroad. She has published sermons and litanies that reflect the integration of womanist theology and communities of faith. Raised in the Church of God in Christ and ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Newsome-Camara, an Elder in the United Methodist Church, has developed church programs and workshops in Christian education, leadership development training, and women’s ministries in the United States and Africa.

Jack Ammerman


Dr. Ammerman comes to the School of Theology Library from Hartford Seminary, where he was Librarian and Director of Educational Technology from 1995 to 2002. Before that, he held several positions at the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University. In each of these positions, his interest in emerging issues in theological librarianship and information technology resulted in active participation with colleagues to develop new digital library resources and to explore the future of theological librarianship. Dr. Ammerman’s scholarly interests include food and spirituality as well as the impact of electronic technology on teaching and learning. He is active in several efforts to digitize library resources and to develop electronic resources to aid in scholarly research. Dr. Ammerman is also the editor of the ATLA/Scarecrow Press Bibliography Series. As a co-principal researcher for a project titled “The Development of Research-Based Learning Communities Supported by Electronic Pedagogy,” Dr. Ammerman studied the creation and maintenance of online learning communities. This project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, explored creative ways to share useful research-based information with congregations, religious bodies and their leaders, and the general public. A key component was the development of new web-based applications that will make research information readily accessible over the Internet. Dr. Ammerman continues to coordinate the development of the Sociology of Religion Database that grew out of this project. SocRelDB is a directory of sociologists who study religion and a bibliographic database of more than 13,000 records. Dr. Ammerman’s most recent publication is an essay titled “Recording the Moment: Moving from a collection model to a documentation model” in September 11, 2001: A Historical, Theological, and Sociological Critique. His academic degrees include: DMin, Princeton Theological Seminary; MLn, Emory University; MDiv, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; and BA, Southwest Baptist College.


Nancy T. Ammerman


Dr. Nancy Ammerman has spent more than a decade studying American religious organizations and the people who participate in them. Her 2005 book, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners (University of California Press), describes the common organizational patterns that shape the work of America’s diverse communities of faith. She has also written extensively on conservative religious movements, including Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World, a study of an independent Baptist church in New England, and Baptist Battle: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention. Currently, with funding from the Templeton Foundation, she is exploring “Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life,” a research project that will analyze how and when religion is present in the everyday worlds of ordinary Americans. Dr. Ammerman earned a PhD from Yale University and is currently Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston University, with appointments in the School of Theology and the Department of Sociology, where she serves as the department’s chair ad interim.


Dale P. Andrews


The Rev. Dr. Dale P. Andrews joined the faculty of Boston University School of Theology in 2005 as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology. Previously he was an associate professor at Louisville Seminary in Kentucky. Dr. Andrews earned his MA and PhD at Vanderbilt University and a MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University and has conducted two international study tours in Guatemala and Brazil. An ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Dr. Andrews has served AME Zion churches in Connecticut and New Jersey. Dr. Andrews has received numerous fellowships and awards for his studies. In addition to many journal articles and chapters in several edited volumes, he is the author of Practical Theology for Black Churches: Bridging Black Theology and African American Folk Religion, published by Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. He co-authored Listening to Listeners: Homiletical Case Studies (Chalice Press, 2004) and New Proclamation: Advent Through Holy Week, Year A, 2004–2005 (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2004). Dr. Andrews also serves as co-editor of the journal Family Ministry. The fall 2009 semester will be Dr. Andrews’ final semester at the School of Theology.


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Carole R. Bohn


Dr. Carole Bohn has been a member of the School of Theology faculty teaching courses in pastoral care and counseling since 1980. From 1989 through 2003 she served as the Director of the Danielsen Institute, a licensed mental health clinic and pastoral counseling center which was founded at the School of Theology in 1952 and is now a nationally and internationally renowned center for the teaching of integration of spirituality and religious issues with mental health counseling. Dr. Bohn works in the areas of pastoral psychology, developmental psychology, faith development, feminist psychology, and health psychology. She co-edited (with Joanne Brown) Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse, and edited Therapeutic Practice in a Cross-Cultural World. Her research interests include the impact of violence and abuse on psychological development, integration of spirituality with various types of mental health treatment, including current work on a social-anxiety treatment program, and collaborative work on the development of integrated treatment in an international context, specifically working with colleagues in Romania. As a full-time faculty member, Dr. Bohn is the training director for the PhD program in counseling psychology and religions in the Graduate School’s Division of Religious and Theological Studies. She teaches courses in psychotherapy, social identity and oppression, ethics, and history of psychology. She provides academic advising, providing leadership to students in the dual degree program between the School of Theology and the School of Social Work. In addition, she continues to provide supervision and seminar leadership at the Danielsen Institute. Dr. Bohn received a BA from Baldwin-Wallace College, a MTS from Harvard University Divinity School, and her MEd and EdD from Boston University. Dr. Bohn retired in May 2009, but she remains at the School of Theology as a part-time professor. 


Alejandro F. Botta


Dr. Botta earned his doctorate summa cum laude from the Department of History of the Jewish People at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel (2002). In addition, he studied Egyptology and Assyriology at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany, from 1993 to 1995; theology at the High Evangelical Institute for Theological Studies in Buenos Aires from 1985 to 1991; and theology at Buenos Aires Biblical Institute in Argentina from 1981 to 1986.


Christopher Boyd Brown


Dr. Brown teaches medieval and early modern church history with a specilization in the German Reformation. His research interests center on the relation between learned theology and lay piety in the Reformation in the contexts of churches, schools, and homes. His first book, Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation (2005), appraises the social appeal of the Reformation in light of the use of vernacular hymns to spread Lutheran doctrine and piety and to form religious identity among the early Protesant laity. He is currently working on a study of early modern wedding-preaching. Dr. Brown also serves as general editor of the forthcoming expanded edition of Luther’s Works. His church experience includes a year as vicar at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Valparaiso, Indiana. His degrees are in history and literature (AB) and history (AM, PhD) from Harvard, as well as an MDiv from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.


Hee An Choi


The Rev. Dr. Choi brings 16 years of experience in ministry, scholastic research, and teaching to her vocation. The emphasis of her scholarly work and investigation relate to church and society, focusing on women’s issues in the multicultural and post-colonial context of the globalized, modern post-Diaspora era. She conducts several academic research projects including immigrant women in the immigrant church and development of multicultural pedagogies in the classroom. Her most recent book is Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-Religious Colonial Context in which she explores the transforming relationship between images of God and self-images of women in Korean church and society. Her co-edited book, Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women, which brings multicultural voices of women into a modern global context, was honored by Massachusetts Bible Society as one of the Best Religious Books of 2007. An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Rev. Dr. Choi holds a PhD in Theology, Ethics, and Human Sciences from Chicago Theological Seminary. She received her MA in Theology and Women’s Studies from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, her MDiv from Han Shin University in South Korea, and her BA from Catholic University in South Korea.


Chai-sik Chung


Dr. Chung joined Boston University as the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics in 1990, bringing international teaching experience to the Muelder Chair. He has taught at a number of institutions, including Boston University’s College of General Studies and in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul. From 1983 to 1987, he served as Director of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei. In 1986, Dr. Chung served as the Koret Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. In the spring of 2003, he lectured on Korean Christianity as the Luce Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, he was invited to serve as the Yongjae George L. Paik Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University lecturing on Korean religion, ethics, and society in the context of cultural globalization. He has published widely in both Korean and English, on social and ethical problems arising from East Asia’s modern transformation. His publications include A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World; Korea, Religious Tradition, and Globalization; and Consciousness and History: Korean Cultural Tradition and Social Change. Dr. Chung has incorporated into his teaching and research the religious and social ethical problems involving globalization and encounters between civilizations with particular attention to Korea, East Asian religious traditions, and Christianity. Professor Chung received his BD degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1959 and his PhD in social ethics and sociology of religion from Boston University in 1964. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He is also affiliated as Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.


Marthinus L. Daneel


Dr. Daneel has developed contextualized ecumenical ministries in theological education, community development, and earthkeeping for and with the African Independent Churches in Zimbabwe, where he spends half the year. He served for sixteen years as senior professor in missiology at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. His widely acclaimed publications focus mainly on African traditional religion and indigenous African Christianity. These include God of the Matopo Hills (1970), Zionism and Faith-healing (1970), Old and New in Southern Shona Independent Churches, Vols. 1–3 (1971, 1976, 1988), Quest for Belonging (1987), Fambidzano-Ecumenical Movement of Zimbabwean Independent Churches (1989), Christian Theology of Africa (1989), the novel Guerrilla Snuff (1995), African Earthkeepers, v.1 (1998) and African Earth-keepers, v.2 (2000), and All Things Hold Together: Holistic Theologies at the African Grassroots (2007). Dr. Daneel was employed as senior research officer at both the Free University of Amsterdam and the African Studies Center, Leiden. He has held research fellowships at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, and the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard. He received his BA with honors at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and his ThD from the Free University, Amsterdam.


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Katheryn Pfisterer Darr


A winner of Boston University’s prestigious Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dr. Darr is the author of “Ezekiel: Commentary and Reflections” in the New Interpreter’s Bible, Isaiah’s Vision and the Family of God, and Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women, and the editor (with Hee An Choi) of Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women. She has published articles in major academic journals, scholarly essays, and education materials for the United Methodist Publishing House. A member of the United Methodist Church, she regularly lectures in church settings. Her current research interests include ancient Israel’s prophetic literature, poetic imagery, and the use and function of proverbs in ancient Israel and the ancient Near East. Dr. Darr received her BA from Kentucky Wesleyan College and her MA and PhD from Vanderbilt University.


Carl Daw


The Rev. Dr. Carl P. Daw, Jr., became the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1996. As an Episcopal priest, he had formerly served congregations in Virginia, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. He began writing hymns as a consultant member of the Text Committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his texts have subsequently appeared in most denominational and ecumenical hymnals published in North America. They can also be found in hymnals in England, Scotland, and Australia and have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Anthem settings of approximately 70 of his texts are currently in print. Hope Publishing Co. has issued four collections of his hymns: A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990), To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), and Gathered for Worship (2006). In 1994 Church Hymnal Corporation published Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching, for which he was the editor and contributor of two essays. He collaborated with Kevin R. Hackett, SSJE, in creating the two-volume A Hymntune Psalter, which Church Publishing, Inc., issued, 1998–1999, as well as the later Revised Common Lectionary version, 2007–2008. With Thomas Pavlechko he is compiling Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary (Church Publishing, Inc., 2007–2009), which provides scripture-based choir and congregational song suggestions for each Sunday of the three-year cycle. Dr. Daw retired in May 2009, but he remains at the School of Theology as a part-time professor.

M. David Eckel


Dr. Eckel’s publications include Jnanagarbha’s Commentary on the Distinction Between the Two Truths; To See the Buddha: A Philosopher’s Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness; editor of India and The West: The Problem of Understanding; and Selected Essays of J. L. Mehta. He received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence in 1998. Dr. Eckel received his PhD from Harvard.


Scott M. Fields


Mr. Fields has over sixteen years of experience in the business sector, the last ten of which have been at Boston University. He is also an alumnus of the University by receiving both his undergraduate degree (BS, Metropolitan College, 2004) and graduate degree (EdM, School of Education, 2006) from Boston University.


Paula Fredriksen


A historian of ancient Christianity, Paula Fredriksen has published in the areas of Hellenistic Judaism, Pauline studies, Christian origins, gnosticism, conversion as a social and a psychological phenomenon, patristic exegesis, and Augustine. Her recent study, From Jesus to Christ, The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus, won the Yale University Press Governor’s award for best book. She is currently involved in a study of Augustine’s life and milieu in the years immediately preceding the Confessions. Dr. Fredriksen holds a diploma in theology from Oxford University, and degrees in history and religion from Wellesley College and Princeton University.


Garth W. Green


Garth W. Green holds a joint appointment in Philosophical Theology in the School of Theology and Philosophy of Religion in the Department of Religion in the Graduate School, which he joined in 2003. Dr. Green teaches in philosophical theology, the philosophy of religion, and the history of theology. Dr. Green’s research is in medieval philosophy and theology, Classical German Idealism, and post-Kantian philosophy of religion, including phenomenology. Dr. Green has also held fellowship and research positions at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria), the University of Leuven (Belgium), the Institut Catholique de Paris (France), and the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Italy). He has lectured widely in both Europe and the United States on the philosophy and theology of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling. Dr. Green received his BA in Classics and Philosophy from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and his MA in Philosophy from the University of Leuven. He also holds a MA in Religious Studies and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion, both from Boston University. 


John Hart


Internationally known for his work in social ethics and environmental ethics, John Hart has given over 150 presentations on four continents: in twenty-four states and in Canada, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Nepal, and England. He was Professor of Theology and founding Director of Environmental Studies at Carroll College, Helena, Montana. His publications include What Are They Saying About Environmental Theology? (Paulist Press, 2004); Ethics and Technology: Innovation and Transformation in Community Contexts (Pilgrim Press, 1997); and The Spirit of the Earth—A Theology of the Land (Paulist Press, 1984). In addition, he has written chapters for five edited books and has more than forty published articles and essays. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. Hart received his PhD from the Union Theological Seminary, New York. 


Ray L. Hart


Dr. Hart has taught in a variety of divinity schools and universities (Drew University School of Theology; Vanderbilt University Divinity School; University of Montana; and State University of New York, Stony Brook). He came to Boston University in 1989 to chair the Department of Religion in the College of Arts & Sciences and served as director of the graduate program in religion. In the School of Theology he teaches philosophical and systematic theology. His major books, Unfinished Man and the Imagination and The Critique of Modernity, have been in the area of theology and culture. A former president of the American Academy of Religion and editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, he recently directed a national study of the field, “Religious and Theological Studies in American Higher Education.” Presently, he is at work on a volume entitled God and Nothingness in Western Theology, a study of major forms of spirituality and mysticism. An ordained elder of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Hart received his BD from Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University) and his PhD from Yale University. Dr. Hart held the position of Dean Emeritus for Boston University School of Theology from 2003 to 2009. 


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Susan Wolfe Hassinger


Susan Wolfe Hassinger was elected a bishop of the United Methodist Church in 1996, and was assigned to the Boston Area, the New England Annual Conference. She retired from the responsibility as a residential bishop at the end of August 2004. Immediately prior to being elected as a bishop, Bishop Hassinger had been director of the Office of Resourcing for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. In that capacity she worked with congregations and church organizations of various sizes, settings, and racial/ethnic backgrounds in conflict transformation, visioning, team building, and congregational development. Her training, in addition to extensive work in conflict transformation, has included organizational development, family systems as applied to groups and organizations, anti-racism and white privilege, and leadership for change. Bishop Hassinger has also facilitated groups, including the annual conference, in processes of decision-making in addition to or instead of parliamentary procedure. Her practice of spiritual discernment with individuals and groups draws on the “holy conferencing” of John Wesley, as well as such diverse perspectives as the Quaker clearness committee and the Ignatian spiritual exercises. Bishop Hassinger has been part of the design team and first president of JustPeace Center for Conflict Transformation and Mediation. She has been part of task forces that have developed a document on Theological Education and Leadership Formation in the Wesleyan Tradition, and the study of Holy Communion in the United Methodist Church, This Holy Mystery. From 2004 to 2008 she served as liaison between the Council of Bishops and the thirteen theological schools of the United Methodist Church.


Karen L. Hernandez-Andrews


Karen Hernandez-Andrews started working at BU STH Admissions in August 2008 as the Senior Administrator and for a year in that position before graduating to Admissions Officer. Besides working at BU STH, Karen began a Master of Sacred Theology in Religion and Conflict program at BUSTH in the fall of 2009. A graduate of Andover Newton Theological School (2007) and Wellesley College (2005), Karen holds an MA in Theological Research in Christian-Muslim Understanding, and a BA in Peace and Justice Studies with a concentration in Islam. Karen teaches and lectures at colleges, high schools, and churches, as well as with various organizations, about Islam, global Christian-Muslim understanding and relations, Al Qaeda, theological responses to terrorism, and Islamophobia. She is also a freelance writer and has published with the Women’s United Nations Report Network, Islamonline.net, and theamericanmuslim.org. Karen is an avid educational traveler and her most recent trip included traveling with a peacemaking delegation from Christian Peacemaker Teams to Israel and Palestine, where she learned firsthand about the efforts on the ground to end the conflict. She has also been to India two times and is going back in the summer of 2010 to continue her work in religious understanding.


Robert Allen Hill


Dean Hill teaches in the areas of Biblical Studies and Practical Theology. Since 1981 he has taught in several schools, including McGill University, Syracuse University, Lemoyne College, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Northeastern Seminary, United Seminary, and various church settings. His passionate interest lies at the intersection of Scripture and life, especially in the work of preaching. Hence his research has combined publication related to the Gospel of John and Gnosticism, on the one hand, and preaching in ministry, on the other. For example, An Examination and Critique of the Understanding of the Relationship Between Apocalypticism and Gnosticism in Johannine Studies appeared in 1997, while Snow Day: Reflections on the Practice of Ministry in the Northeast was published in 2000. Most of his writing, however, has been devoted to weekly sermons, over thirty years, in seven pulpits, some of which are collected, taped, and published. Hill has taught Greek, New Testament, Preaching, The Practice of Ministry, Church Administration, and other courses. His perspective on pastoral theology focuses on the special needs of the church in the Northeastern USA in the twenty-first century. Currently he is writing a monograph on exegetical imagination, tentatively titled Designs for Preaching.


Megan E. Hornbeek


A lifelong United Methodist, Megan studied religion at Oklahoma City University, graduating in 2003 magna cum laude. Her continued study of theology led her to Boston University School of  Theology, where she graduated with her Master of Theological Studies in 2005. As a student, Megan worked in the Community Life Office coordinating community events and promoting dialogue. After graduation, Megan began working in the Registration & Financial Aid Office. Megan’s time in the Community Life Office paired with her work as the Registrar has led her to currently pursue a Master in Education at Boston University School of Education. 


Samuel M. Johnson


An ordained elder in the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, the Reverend Samuel M. Johnson comes to the School of Theology after 27 years in pulpits, most recently at Christ Church, United Methodist, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Reverend Johnson is a graduate of DePauw University (BA) and the Harvard Divinity School (MDiv). As Director of Professional Education, Reverend Johnson provides an important link between the School of Theology and congregational life. A commitment to the training of the whole minister characterizes his approach to the training and supervision of Master of Divinity candidates. Reverend Johnson also directs the School’s Continuing Education Program.


Maggie Keelan


A proud alumna of the School of Theology, Maggie graduated summa cum laude from the Master of  Theological Studies degree program, specializing in Religion and Conflict Transformation. She served as the School’s Admissions Officer prior to joining the Development and Alumni Relations Office in 2008. Maggie has worked for nonprofit organizations at the local and national levels in a variety of fields, including addiction recovery and ecumenical relations. She is a professional harpist and released a solo album in 2002 titled “Ascension.” Maggie holds a BA in Writing and Rhetoric from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.


Anastasia Kidd


A graduate of the School of Theology’s MDiv program, Anastasia brings her years of student experience to her position in the seminary’s Admissions Office. She fostered the life of the seminary community as Community Life Coordinator through the Student Affairs Office while pursuing her MDiv.  Anastasia serves the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ in many capacities and is seeking ordination in that denomination. She received her BA in Psychology from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Jennifer Knust


Professor Knust teaches and conducts research in the areas of the history of interpretation, New Testament textual criticism, ancient rhetoric and early Christian discourse, and the intersection of sex, gender, and status in ancient Christian argumentation. Her publications include Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (Columbia University Press, 2005) as well as essays on a variety of topics, including the letters of Paul, deutero-Pauline literature, Justin Martyr, and the impact of anti-Judaism on the transmission of the Gospels. She has received fellowships and awards from the American Association of University Women, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Henry Luce III Foundation/Association of Theological Schools. Professor Knust is an ordained American Baptist (USA) pastor. She received her BS from University of Illinois, Urbana, an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary, and a PhD from Columbia University.


Robert C. Neville


Robert Cummings Neville writes in the fields of philosophy, religion, and theology. His most recent books include The Truth of Broken Symbols (1996), Normative Cultures (1995), Eternity and Time’s Flow (1993), The Highroad Around Modernism (1992), Behind the Masks of God (1991), and A Theology Primer (1991). Reprints of God the Creator (1968), The Cosmology of Freedom (1974), and Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology (1980) are available through the State University of New York Press. Neville served as Dean of the School of Theology from 1988 to 2003. Prior to this, Dean Neville was the Director of the Boston University Division of Religious and Theological Studies and chair of the Religion Department. He was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and also has taught at Yale, Fordham, and SUNY Purchase. An ordained elder in the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dean Neville has pastored in Missouri and New York. Dean Neville is the past president of the American Academy of Religion, the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, and the Metaphysical Society of America. He is currently a member of the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and of the Commission on Theological Education of the United Methodist Church, and he is a member of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools and a Trustee of the Boston Theological Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Soundings, and Quarterly Review, as well as the Associate Editor for Behavioral and Neurological Articles, The Encyclopedia of Bioethics.


Shelly Rambo


Professor Rambo’s teaching and research interests are in constructive Christian theology, feminist theology and theory, and comparative literature and religion. She received her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and her STM from Yale Divinity School, and recently completed her PhD at Emory University. In her current project, she develops a pneumatology of Holy Saturday, from the intersection of the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, contemporary trauma theory, and readings of the Johannine passion narrative. She is currently pursuing ordination with the Presbyterian Church (USA). 


Dana L. Robert


Dr. Robert’s research and teaching interests span the fields of mission history, the history of world Christianity, and mission theology. She is a well-known lecturer on global Christianity, and she especially enjoys teaching students about the history of Christianity as it moves from one culture to another. Her most recent books are Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 (Curzon-Eerdmans 2008), and Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Her books Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century (Orbis 2002) and Occupy Until I Come: A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World (Eerdmans, 2003) were named outstanding books in mission studies. With M.L. Daneel, she edits the book series African Initiatives in Christian Mission (University of South Africa Press). A member of the United Methodist Church, she is writing the denominational mission study for 2010. Robert received her BA from Louisiana State University and her PhD from Yale University. See the History of Missiology website.


Chris R. Schlauch


Dr. Schlauch’s primary research interests have to do with methodology: how to coordinate research and scholarship among diverse traditions of inquiry in psychological, religious, and theological studies. He is currently formulating a theory of self (“a religious/theological anthropology”) that extends the legacy of William James, in terms of “the varieties of being religious.” Among the sources for these efforts are various movements in psychoanalytic theory—classical psychoanalysis, ego psychology, object relations, and self psychology—as well as scholarship in theology (systematic, philosophical, practical), comparative religion, philosophy, and sociology of knowledge. Dr. Schlauch maintains a clinical practice of psychotherapy and supervision of psychotherapy at the Danielsen Institute. These practices in the “care of souls” directly inform his research and teaching. He served on the Advisory Committee of the Pastoral Counselor Examination Board, the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Pastoral Theology, and continues to serve on the Editorial Committee of The Journal of Pastoral Care. He has served as an external reviewer for The Journal of Religion and on behalf of various presses. Professor Schlauch, a member of the Society for Pastoral Theology since 1986, chairs the Steering Committee of The Society. He received his MDiv from Yale Divinity School and his PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.


Andrew D. J. Shenton


Andrew Shenton was born in England. His first professional music training was at The Royal College of Music in London, where he studied under a scholarship from The Royal College of Organists. While at the RCM he read for a BMus degree at London University and was an organ scholar at St. Paul’s Cathedral. After graduating he was appointed Director of Music at St. Matthew’s Church in Northampton and Lecturer in the Humanities at Leicester University. In 1991 Andrew Shenton moved to the U.S. to study for a master’s degree at the Institute for Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts at Yale University and then for a PhD in musicology at Harvard University. As a student at the ISM he prepared for a ministry involved with the arts (with music as a primary focus), as he is interested in all aspects of spirituality and the arts. This is reflected in his master’s thesis, which concerns the renaissance of sacred art in post-war Britain, and in his doctoral dissertation, which is a musico-linguistic study of the twentieth-century French mystic composer Olivier Messiaen. Dr. Shenton has a master’s degree in organ performance from Yale, and holds the Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists. Recently he has given recitals in such venues as King’s College, Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue (New York debut), and Washington National Cathedral. He has toured extensively in Europe and the U.S. as a conductor, recitalist and clinician, and his two solo organ recordings have received international acclaim. In addition to diplomas in both piano and organ, Dr. Shenton holds the Choir Training diploma of the Royal College of Organists. He has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including a Harvard Merit Fellowship, and Harvard’s Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. He has served on the faculties of Yale University and The Catholic University of America. Throughout his studies he has been particularly concerned with issues of historically informed performance practice. In addition, he has made an extensive study of voice production and vocal technique, and frequently acts as a repetiteur, coach, and accompanist for singers. He has pioneered contemporary music in a variety of styles and has given more than forty world premieres by composers such as Geoffrey Burgon, Joe Utterback, and John Tavener. 


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Bryan P. Stone


Dr. Stone brings to the School of Theology a background in urban and multi-cultural ministry combined with experience in new church development and faith-based community development and non-profit management. He received his PhD in Systematic Theology from Southern Methodist University, and from 1993 to 1998 he served as Professor of Practical Theology at Azusa Pacific University and Director of the Bresee Institute for Urban Training in Los Angeles. Dr. Stone directs the Congregational Research and Development project of the Center for Practical Theology, through which he is leading the School to partner with churches and denominational groups in the birthing of new faith communities and the revitalization of existing ones. In addition to his work in evangelism, urban ministry, multi-cultural ministry, and congregational development, his research interests are in the areas of Wesleyan theology, post-liberal theologies, process thought, liberation theology, and theology and film. Dr. Stone is the author of Evangelism After Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness (2007), Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema (2000), Compassionate Ministry: Theological Foundations (1996), and Effective Faith: A Critical Study of the Christology of Juan Luis Segundo (1994). He is also coeditor of Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan and Process Theologies in Dialogue (2001).


Anjulet Tucker 


Dr. Tucker earned her PhD from Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion. In her dissertation, “Get the Learnin’ but Don’t Lose the Burnin’”: The Social, Cultural, and Religious Politics of Education in a Black Pentecostal College, she explores factors that contributed to the rise and demise of Saints Junior College and Academy (1917-1983). Her interests include religion and social change, the development of religious organizations, and the role of education in Pentecostal communities. She is a former Fund for Theological Education North American Doctoral Fellow. Currently she serves as the Vice President of the Diversity Committee for the Society for Pentecostal Studies. Anjulet earned degrees from Emory University (BA) and Harvard Divinity School (MTS).


Karen B. Westerfield Tucker


Karen B. Westerfield Tucker is a United Methodist elder (presbyter) affiliated with the Illinois Great Rivers Conference. She was appointed to a congregation in Rock Island, Illinois, and to the Wesley Foundation at the University of Illinois (U-C) before pursuing the doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Notre Dame. She was on the faculty of Duke University for fifteen years, and has taught seminary and continuing education courses throughout North America and in Asia, Europe, and Pacifica. Her academic and research interests include North American liturgical history and theology, Methodist/Wesleyan liturgical history and theology, ritual and pastoral care, and hymnody. Westerfield Tucker is the author of American Methodist Worship (2001) and a co-editor of The Oxford History of Christian Worship (2006). At present she is working on a critical edition of Wesleyan liturgical materials for the Wesley Works Project (Abingdon Press) and writing a book on hymnals as theological texts. She is President-elect of the international and ecumenical Societas Liturgica and the editor-in-chief of the society’s research and review journal Studia Liturgica. Her ecumenical involvement includes consulting work with the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and membership on the international dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council. She was elected to the Executive Committee of the World Methodist Council (2006-2011) and serves on the Council’s Ecumenics and Dialogue Committee.


James Christopher Walters


Dr. Walters’ interests focus on Pauline studies and especially on the urban social context of Pauline communities in the Aegean basin (Greece and western Asia Minor). For almost a decade he has served on the steering committee of the Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World Section of the Society of Biblical Literature because of his interest in bringing material evidence to bear on the exegesis of Paul’s letters. Dr. Walters is the author of one book, Ethnic Issues in Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and a number of scholarly essays. He earned his BA at Harding University, the MAR and MTh at Harding Graduate School of Religion, and his PhD at Boston University.


Kirk Wegter-McNelly


Kirk Wegter-McNelly’s research and teaching interests focus on the promise and peril of reformulating Christian doctrine in light of constructive interplay with contemporary scientific ideas and perspectives. He is currently working on a theological assessment of physical relationality that engages recent scientific advances and philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. Dr. Wegter-McNelly has co-edited two publications: Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences/Vatican Observatory, 2001) and Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists (Routledge, 2002). 


Wesley J. Wildman


An Australian, Dr. Wildman received a BA in mathematics from Flinders University, a BD from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His research and teaching interests are in contemporary Christian theology, philosophy of religion, and religion and science. He is editor (with W. Mark Richardson) of Building Bridges Between Theology and Science, and author of Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century. Dr. Wildman is ordained in the Uniting Church of Australia (a union of the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregational denominations) and has served churches in Sydney and in Piedmont, California. He was involved from 1996–2000 in the Crosscultural Comparative Religious Ideas Project, based at Boston University, and is a member of the ongoing research group for the Divine Action Project, sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences in Berkeley. In Boston University’s Graduate School, Dr. Wildman directs the doctoral programs in Christian Theology, Comparative Theology, and Science, Philosophy, and Religion.


Claire E. Wolfteich


Dr. Wolfteich’s teaching and research interests include the history of Christian spirituality, contemporary spiritual formation and renewal, religion and public life, laity, and American Catholicism. She directs the Spiritual Formation and Church Life Project of the Center for Practical Theology and directs the Pastoral and Spiritual Formation program at Boston University School of Theology. Dr. Wolfteich’s publications include Lord, Have Mercy: Praying for Justice with Conviction and Humility (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2006); Navigating New Terrain: Work and Women’s Spiritual Lives (Paulist Press, 2002), and American Catholics Through the Twentieth Century: Spirituality, Lay Experience, and Public Life (Crossroad Publishing Co., 2001). She currently serves as president of the Association of Practical Theology and vice-President of the International Academy of Practical Theology. She received her PhD and MDiv from the University of Chicago. In addition, she holds a Diploma in Pastoral Studies from Maynooth College in Ireland and a BA in Religious Studies from Yale University.


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Related Faculty

Located at the center of Boston University, the School of Theology provides faculty and students with immediate access to leading scholars in related fields and disciplines. The following are illustrative of other faculty with whom students may register for graduate-level courses:


Robert S. Cohen 
Director, Center for the Philosophy and History of Science, Graduate School; Professor of Physics and Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, Wesleyan University; MS, PhD, Yale University


Robert Hefner 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, MA, PhD, University of Michigan

Jonathan Klawans 
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, Jewish Theological Seminary; MA, New York University; BA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University

Herbert Mason 
University Professor and Professor of History and Religion, College of Arts and Sciences. AB, AM, PhD, Harvard University

Alan M. Olson 
Chairman and Professor of Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, St. Olaf College; MDiv, Luther Theological Seminary; PhD, Boston University

Stephen Prothero 
Chairman of the Department of Religion and Director of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies; Assistant Professor of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, Yale University; MA, PhD, Harvard University

Carl A. P. Ruck 
Professor of Classical Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. AB, Yale University; AM, University of Michigan; PhD, Harvard University

Stephen P. Scully 
Professor of Classical Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, New York University; MA, University of North Carolina; PhD, Brown University

Merlin Swartz 
Professor of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences (Islamic Studies). BA, Eastern Mennonite College; BD, Goshen College; PhD, Harvard University

Roye Elizabeth Wates 
Chairman, Religion and the Arts; Professor of Humanities and Art History, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, Birmingham-Southern College; PhD, Yale University

Elie Wiesel 
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; University Professor Center for Judaic Studies; Professor of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences. LittD, LitD, LHD, LHebD, PhD, LLD (hon.)

Paul E. Zimansky 
Professor of Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences. BA, Johns Hopkins University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago

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