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Ray L. Hart
Dean ad interim, School of Theology; Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology. 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 and 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.John H. Berthrong
Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs; Associate Professor of Comparative Theology. Along with his normal administrative and teaching duties, Dr. Berthrong is also a founding member of the North American Interfaith Network and a member of the Interfaith Relations Commission of the NCCCUSA. He is also a Cochairman of the Confucian Studies Group of the AAR/SBL and Vice-President of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. His teaching and research interests include the areas of interfaith dialogue, Chinese religion and philosophy, and comparative theology and philosophy. He has published numerous articles in these areas. His most recent books are All Under Heaven; Transformations of the Confucian Way; Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville; The Divine Deli: Religious Identity in the North American Cultural Mosaic; and Confucianism: an Introduction.Imani-Sheila Newsome-Camara
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs; Assistant Professor of Theology. Dean Newsome-Camara teaches church history and missiology. Her scholarly explorations include the development of the Womanist idea, African American preaching as a catalyst for change, and the representation of the African Diaspora in church history and missiology. She is the director of the Program for African American Religious Research and Education. Reverend Newsome, who previously served as Associate Dean of Marsh Chapel, the Church at Boston University, holds an MEd in educational consultation from the University of Vermont and an MDiv from Boston University. Raised in the Church of God in Christ, ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Newsome, an ordained Elder, is a member of the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church.Jack Ammerman
Head Librarian, School of Theology; Lecturer. 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 entitled “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 entitled “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
Professor, Sociology of Religion. 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. Nancy 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
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology. 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.Carole R. Bohn
Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and Religion (CPAR). 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.
Alejandro F. Botta
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible. 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 1993–1995; theology at the High Evangelical Institute for Theological Studies in Buenos Aires from 1985–1991; and theology at Buenos Aires Biblical Institute in Argentina from 1981–1986.
Christopher Boyd Brown
Assistant Professor of Church History. 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 general editor of the forthcoming expended 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
Director, Anna Howard Shaw Center; Lecturer. The Reverend Dr. Hee An Choi brings ten years of experience in ministry and academic research and teaching to the School of Theology and the Anna Howard Shaw Center. She conducts research and teaches about women and ministry, focusing on women’s studies in the multicultural and post-colonial context of the globalized, modern post-diaspora era. Her most recent book, Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context, explores the transforming relationship between images of God and self-images of women in ministerial context. She has taught in a variety of universities and seminaries and served as a minister for young adults at University Church (UCC and DOC) and as a campus minister at University of Chicago. An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), she received her BA from Catholic University, her MDiv from Han Shin University in South Korea, her MA from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and her PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary.Chai-sik Chung
Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics. 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 Korea Institute, Harvard University.Marthinus L. Daneel
Professor of Mission; Co-director, Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Dr. Daneel has developed contextualized ecumenical ministries in theological education, community development, and earthkeeping for and with the African Independent Churches in Zimbabwe. He served for 16 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 Earthkeepers, v.2 (2000). 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.Katheryn Pfisterer Darr
Professor of Hebrew Bible. A 1989 winner of Boston University’s prestigious Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dr. Darr is the author of Isaiah’s Vision and the Family of God, and Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspective on Biblical Women. She has written articles for major scholarly journals as well as education materials for the United Methodist Publishing House. Dr. Darr serves on the editorial board for the New Interpreter’s Bible and has written the commentary on Ezekiel for that series. She received her BA from Kentucky Wesleyan College and her MA and PhD from Vanderbilt University.Carl Daw
Executive Director, The Hymn Society; Adjunct Professor of Hymnology. The Reverend 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 as well as in several smaller collections. Anthem settings of approximately 40 of his texts are currently in print. Hope Publishing Co. has issued three collections of his hymns: A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990), To Sing God’s Praise (1992), and New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996). 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. His most recent project, in collaboration with Kevin R. Hackett, has been A Hymntune Psalter, which Church Publishing, Inc., issued in two volumes, 1998–1999.M. David Eckel
Associate Professor of Religion. 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, 1998. Dr. Eckel received his PhD from Harvard.Paula Fredriksen
William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of the Bible. 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. Professor Fredriksen holds a diploma in theology from Oxford University, and degrees in history and religion from Wellesley College and Princeton University.Garth W. Green
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion. 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
Professor of Christian Ethics. Internationally known for his work in social ethics and environmental ethics, John Hart has given over one-hundred fifty 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.Susan Wolfe Hassinger
Bishop in Residence; Adjunct Professor. 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 also served on a task force on Theological Education and Leadership Formation that included representatives of the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry and the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools. That task force has produced a working document “A Wesleyan Vision for Theological Education and Leadership Formation for the 21st Century.” She has also been a part of a joint task force that produced a study on Holy Communion, “This Holy Mystery,” that was adopted by the 2004 General Conference of the United Methodist Church.Megan E. Hornbeek
Registrar. 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 Office of Community Life coordinating community events and promoting dialogue. After graduation, Megan began working in the Office of Registration and Financial Aid. Megan’s time in the Office of Community Life paired with her work in Registration and Financial Aid have prepared her for the position as Registrar of the School of Theology.Pauline Jennett
Alumni Office. Pauline Jennett joined the School of Theology as Alumni Officer on August 8, 2005. Pauline recently graduated from Boston University School of Theology with a Master of Divinity degree in the Pastoral Counseling Specialization track, cum laude. She was a proud member of the Seminary Singers and went on tour with them for two years while in school. She is also no stranger to the congregational world, since her father was a Church of God, Anderson, Indiana, minister for many years. Regarding previous education, Pauline received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, cum laude, from Baruch College in New York City and the Master of Business Administration degree from Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia. She comes to the School of Theology with extensive corporate work experience. These include working at IBM as a sales associate. In addition, she worked at Gillette in the roles of brand marketing and was the trade marketing manager responsible for East Coast retail accounts. Her last positions were with Coca-Cola USA. She was the marketing manager in the Massachusetts and Cincinnati, Ohio, sales offices. She also was the Michigan sales manager responsible for over $10 million in sales and seven sales associates.Samuel M. Johnson
Director of Professional Education; Lecturer. 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.Anastasia Kidd
Director of Admissions and College Relations. 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 Office of Student Affairs 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.Jennifer Knust
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins. 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 (NY: 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, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Academy in Rome. 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.Steve Morin
Director of Development and Alumni Relations. Stephen Morin returns to Boston University, where he had previously served as the Development Officer for the College of Communication. Over the past four-and-a-half years, he was the Campaign Director for Lexington Christian Academy, where he helped lead the Academy through the largest campaign in its history. He holds a BA in history from Bates College and a MA in political science from Northeastern University.Robert C. Neville
Executive Director of Danielsen Institute; Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology. 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
Assistant Professor of Theology. 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, 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
Truman Collins Professor of World Mission; Co-director, Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Dr. Robert’s research and teaching interests span the fields of mission history, the history of world Christianity, and mission theology. Her books include African Christian Outreach, Vol 2: Mission Churches (ed., South African Missiological Society, 2003), American Women in Mission (Mercer 1997), and co-authorship of the textbook Christianity: A Social and Cultural History (Prentice-Hall, 1997). Her book Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century (ed., Orbis) was named an outstanding book in mission studies for 2002; and her book “Occupy Until I Come”: A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World (Eerdmans, 2003) was one of the outstanding books in mission studies for 2003. With M.L. Daneel, she edits the book series “African Initiatives in Christian Mission” (University of South Africa Press). Dr. Robert has held numerous lectureships at other seminaries, and she was plenary speaker at the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 2002. Dana Robert has been teaching at Boston University since 1984, and she especially enjoys teaching students about the history of Christianity as it moves from one culture to another. She regularly travels to southern Africa where she engages in mission outreach and research, and she is affiliated with the African Studies Center at Boston University. A member of the United Methodist Church, she received her BA from Louisiana State University and her PhD from Yale University.Chris R. Schlauch
Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and Psychology of Religion. 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
Assistant Professor of Sacred Music; James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music. 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.Bryan Stone
E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism; Co-Director for the Center for Practical Theology. 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 served recently as Professor of Practical Theology at Azusa Pacific University and Director of the Bresee Institute for Urban Training in Los Angeles. Dr. Stone is Director of the School of Theology’s Center for Congregational Research and Development, 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, and congregational development, his research interests are in the areas of Wesleyan theology, process thought, liberation theology, and theology and film. Dr. Stone is the author of Effective Faith: A Critical Study of the Christology of Juan Luis Segundo (1994), Compassionate Ministry: Theological Foundations (1996), and Faith and the Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema (2000). He is also coeditor of Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan and Process Theologies in Dialogue (2001).Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
Professor of Worship. Karen Westerfield Tucker is a United Methodist elder (presbyter) affiliated with the Illinois Great Rivers Conference. She served a congregation in Rock Island, Illinois and 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 at Duke University for fifteen years, and has taught seminary and continuing education courses throughout the United States and in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Norway. Her academic and research interests include North American liturgical history and theology, Methodist/Wesleyan liturgical history and theology, liturgy and pastoral care, and hymnody. In 2002–2003 she was selected as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology to study the theological and cultural dynamics of hymnals. Dr. Westerfield Tucker is the author of American Methodist Worship (Oxford University Press, 2001), and she conceived and edited The Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-century Worship in Worldwide Methodism (Abingdon/Kingswood, 1996). A writer for the Wesley Works Project (Abingdon Press), she is also editing a major history of Christian worship for Oxford University Press. She was an assistant editor for the international and ecumenical Studia Liturgica and in 2005 became the journal’s senior editor. She chairs the Worship and Liturgy Committee of the World Methodist Council and is responsible for overseeing the worship of the 2006 World Methodist Conference in Korea. Dr. Westerfield Tucker received her BA from Emory and Henry College, her MDiv from Duke University, and her MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame.James Christopher Walters
Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins. 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
Assistant Professor of Theology. 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
Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics. 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
Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Formation; Co-Director for the Center for Practical Theology. Dr. Claire Wolfteich teaches and conducts research in the areas of practical theology, religion and public life, spiritual formation, laity, faith and work, and the history of Christian spirituality. She directs the Pastoral and Spiritual Formation program at Boston University School of Theology. Her publications include American Catholics Through the Twentieth Century: Spirituality, Lay Experience, and Public Life (NY: Crossroad, 2001) and Navigating New Terrain: Work and Women’s Spiritual Lives (NY: Paulist Press, 2002). She also has written articles and book chapters on a range of topics including religious toleration, the Eucharist, spiritual guidance, spirituality and modernization, and theological education. Professor Wolfteich co-directs two five-year grant projects—“Church and Theology in the Contemporary World” with Professor Peter Berger and “Sustaining Urban Pastoral Excellence” with Professor Bryan Stone. Both projects are funded by the Lilly Endowment. Dr. Wolfteich 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 from Yale University.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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