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5/15/06
BUToday obituary for Dr. Simon Parker, Professor of Hebrew Bible; Harrell F. Beck Scholar of Hebrew Scripture.
9/23/06
Hurricane Katrina relief efforts are discussed in a letter from School of Theology Dean ad interim Dr. Ray L. Hart
9/13/05
Dr.
Dale P. Andrews joins Boston University School of Theology
as Martin Luther King, Jr. Chair. Academic and minister assumes
position focusing on homiletics and pastoral theology
9/1/05
Professor
Nancy Ammerman receives a Distinguished Book Award from
the American Sociological Association
5/22/05
First award of the Paul and Auburn Carr
Scholarship Fund in Science and Religion
Boston University School of Theology was pleased to recognize
the presence of Dr. Paul H. Carr at our 2005 Annual Commencement.
Dr. Carr attended the ceremony to witness the first award
of the Paul and Auburn Carr Scholarship Fund in Science and
Religion.
9/21/04
Boston University School of Theology
Welcomes New Seminarians
Enthusiastic new seminarians converged
on the Boston University School of Theology from across the
globe as the School welcomed
this year’s incoming class. Students entered each of
the School’s six degree programs, including both masters
and doctoral levels. A special privilege, some of this year’s
incoming doctoral students will be the first to study with
the school’s five new faculty members, also entering
this semester.
6/15/04
Dean
Emeritus Walter G. Muelder 1907-2004
On Saturday, June 12, 2004, Walter George Muelder quietly
passed away in Boston, MA. Nearly 60 years earlier, in the
year that ended World War II, Muelder arrived at Boston University's
faculty where he began a 27-year tenure as Dean of the School
of Theology (1945-1972).
9/10/03
Professor
David Hempton Named 2004 University Scholar/Teacher of
the Year
9/24/03
The
Center for African American Religious Research and Education
honors Dr. Prathia Hall
The woman who inspired Martin Luther King to say “I
have a dream,” The Reverend Dr. Prathia L. Hall will
be honored at the inaugural events of the new Boston University
School of Theology Center for African American Religious
Research and Education in October.
3/14/03
Seminary Singers
Complete Spring 2003 Tour
The Seminary Singers have
returned home to the School of Theology after a concert tour in Florida the week of
March 7 - 13, 2003. The seven concerts featured a variety
of sacred music, including classical, contemporary, gospel,
and spiritual.
3/05/03
School of Theology
Celebrates
Dean Emeritus Walter G. Muelder’s 96th Birthday
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003 the School of Theology joined
Dean Emeritus Walter G. Muelder in celebrating his 96th birthday.
1/01/03
School
of Theology Appoints New Head Librarian
Boston University is pleased to announce the appointment
of the Rev. Dr. Jack W. Ammerman as Head Librarian for the
School of Theology Library, effective January 1, 2003. He
succeeds Dr. Raymond Van de Moortell, who has returned to
parish ministry.
3/14/00
Religion and Ecology:
The Interaction of Cosmology and Cultivation
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a professor of religion at Bucknell
University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses
in world religions, Asian religions, and religions and ecology.
She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in the history
of religions, specializing in Confucianism in Japan.
3/3/00
Currents in
World Christianity
S ponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts, is designed to affect
both scholarly and public perceptions of the role and mission
of Christianity in the modern world. The project involves
an international network of scholars conducting research over
the next few years.
10/13/99
1999
Brown Lecture Series - Church, Society, and the Twenty-first
Century
9/19/99
Twentieth-Century American
Missions and Gender
Professor Dana Robert will convene a series of four one-day
seminars (with two papers each) at Boston University in the
fall of 1999 and spring of 2000. The theme will be "Twentieth-Century
American Missions and Gender." The goal will be to investigate
the variety of ways in which the category of gender affected
mission thought and practice across the whole spectrum of
the American missionary movement in the twentieth century.
6/1/99
Issues for the Millennium:
Cloning and Genetic Technologies
This conference will provide a forum in which scientists,
academics, law and medical professionals, students and members
of the public come together to discuss important issues in
bioethics facing society at the beginning of the 21st
century. The conference schedule will allow ample opportunity
for members of the audience to ask questions and to meet with
panel members after their talks in break-out group sessions.
Conference goals include interdisciplinary education, education
of the public, and broad-based discussion.
3/23/99
"The Virtues
and Joys of the Comparative Mirror," by Dr. Rita M. Gross
Dr. Gross, a student of comparative religion, is well known
for her work on women's studies in religion and feminist theology.
She also is a Buddhist theologian and has participated in
many Buddhist-Christian dialogues.
2/11/99
Rev. Dr. Peter Storey
at STH
Peter Storey is the seventh Methodist minister in a family
that arrived in South Africa in 1820. He schooled in
Cape Town, spent some time in the South African Navy, and
then trained for the Methodist ministry at Rhodes University.
1/99
The Alfred Harlow Avery
Scholar Search
Boston University School of Theology is conducting a search
for the third recipient of the Alfred Harlow Avery Scholarship
in Theology.
10/29/98
Recalling with Margaret
On Thursday, October 29, 1998, the Anna
Howard Shaw Center will celebrate its twentieth birthday
in ritual and story
9/17/98
A Service
of Matriculation
On September 17, 1998, Boston University School of Theology
held a Service of Matriculation at Marsh Chapel to officially
welcome the incoming class. After the processional hymn,
"Christ is the World's Light," the Reverend Imani-Sheila Newsome
(Assistant Dean for Student Affairs) offered the call to worship
and opening prayer, and Audrey Harris, president of the Boston
University Theological Students' Association (BUTSA), greeted
the congregation.
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