Practical Theology Faculty

The following is a list of Practical Theology faculty including concentration advisors (with concentrations in parentheses), core examining faculty (as noted), and related faculty


Nancy Ammerman Professor of Sociology of Religion, School of Theology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Boston University Teaching and research interests include: sociology of religion, American religion, congregations, lived religion.	Courtney Goto Assistant Professor of Religious Education (Member of the Core Examining Faculty; Concentration Advisor in Religious Education) Teaching and research interests include: body, imagination, teaching, and learning in religious education; religious aesthetics in constructing local theologies and cultural identity; practical theology of play through art; senses and spiritual knowing.
Marthinus L. Daneel Professor of Missiology (part-time); Co-director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission Teaching and research interests include: contextualized ecumenical ministries in theological education, community development, and earthkeeping for and with the African Independent Churches in Zimbabwe.	Robert Alan Hill Dean of Marsh Chapel; Chaplain to the University; Professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology (Concentration Advisor in Pastoral Theology) Teaching and research interests include: the intersections of scripture and life, especially in the work of preaching; the gospel of John; congregational renewal and pastoral leadership.
Mary Elizabeth Moore Dean of the School of Theology, Professor of Theology and Education (Member of the Core Examining Faculty; Concentration Advisor in Religious Education and Church and Society) Teaching and research interests include: education, process and feminist theologies, and justice and reconciliation	Shelly Rambo Assistant Professor in Theology (Concentration Advisor in Church and Society) Teaching and research interests include: feminist theory and theology, pneumatology, trauma studies, the rhetoric of religious writing, and postmodern biblical theology.
Dana Robert Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission; Co-Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission (Concentration Advisor in Mission, Mission and Evangelism) Teaching and research interests include: mission history, the history of world Christianity, and mission theology.	Chris Schlauch Associate Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Psychology of Religion (Concentration Advisor in Pastoral Theology) Teaching and research interests include: pastoral psychology, psychology of religion, methodology of research and scholarship among diverse traditions of inquiry in psychological, religious, and theological studies.
Andrew Shenton James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music Teaching and research interests include:sacred music, organ performance, religion and the arts, contemporary spirituality and the arts, music and world religions, twentieth-century French mystic composer Olivier Messiaen, and the contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt	David Schnasa Jacobsen Professor of the Practice of Homiletics and Director of the Homiletical Theology Project (Member of the Core Examining Faculty; Concentration Advisor in Homiletics) Teaching and research interests include: the practice of preaching, homiletic theory, theologies of preaching, the relation of Word and Sacrament, hermeneutics, Biblical criticism, and the connection of all these to theology itself.
Phillis Sheppard Associate Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Theology (Member of the Core Examining Faculty; Concentration Advisor in Pastoral Theology) Teaching and research interests include: womanist theology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and pastoral counseling.	Bryan Stone Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism; Co-Director of the Center for Practical Theology (Member of the Core Examining Faculty; Concentration Advisor in Evangelism, Church and Society) Teaching and research interests include: evangelism and congregational development, urban and multi-cultural ministry, ecclesiology, theology and film/popular culture, John Wesley’s theology, liberation theology, postliberal theologies, pacifism
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker Professor of Worship (Concentration Advisor in Liturgical Studies) Teaching and research interests include: North American liturgical history and theology, Methodist/Wesleyan liturgical history and theology, liturgy and pastoral care, and hymnody	Claire Wolfteich Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Formation (Member of the Core Examining Faculty; Concentration advisor in Spirituality, Church and Society) Teaching and research interests include: practical theology, religion and public life, spiritual formation, laity, faith and work, and the history of Christian spirituality.