Dominic J.S. Mejia, MDiv Candidate at the BU School of Theology, recently reviewed Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games with God, edited by Craig Detweiler. Find the full review below. Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games with God, edited by Craig Detweiler. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. 248 pages. $25.00. Faith and Video Games: A […]
Dr. Stephanie Arel (STH Practical Theology ’14), an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, recently curated a Syndicate Network Symposium engaging Humanity in God’s Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration by Claudia Welz. Arel introduced Welz’s work, highlighting Welz’s approach to dignity. Arel writes,”In Humanity in God’s Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, Claudia Welz interprets the […]
Nelson Cowan, a doctoral candidate in Liturgical Studies at BU School of Theology, recently reviewed Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice by STH Practical Theology alum Dr. Christopher James. Please see the beginning of Cowan’s review below and visit the Homiletics website for the full review Homiletic is a scholarly forum in homiletics and a review of publications in […]
Jackie Blue, a doctoral candidate in Practical Theology at BU School of Theology, recently reviewed A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights by Kenyatta Gilbert. Please see the beginning of Blue’s review below and visit the Homiletics website for the full review Homiletic is a scholarly forum in homiletics and a review of publications in religious communication. […]
Yara González-Justiniano, a doctoral candidate in Practical Theology at BU School of Theology, recently reviewed A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom, by Teresa Delgado. Please see the beginning of González-Justiniano’s review below and visit the Perspectivas website for the full review. Perspectivas is the online peer-reviewed multilingual (Spanish, Portuguese and English) subscription journal of the Hispanic Theological Initiative. A Puerto […]
Kathryn House, a doctoral candidate in Practical Theology at BU School of Theology, recently reviewed Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics by R. Marie Griffith. Please see the beginning of House’s review below and visit the Reading Religion website for the full review. Reading Religion (RR) is an open book review website published by the American Academy of […]
Sang-il Kim, a doctoral candidate in Practical Theology at BUSTH, recently reviewed Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, by Donald Wallenfang. Please see the beginning of Kim’s review below and visit the Reading Religion website for the full review. Reading Religion (RR) is an open book review website published by the American Academy of […]
Matthew Beal, doctoral student in Practical Theology at BUSTH, recently reviewed Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy, edited by Charles Marsh, Peter Slade, and Sarah Azaransky. Please see the beginning of Beal’s review below and visit the Reading Religion website for the full review. Reading Religion (RR) is an open book review website published by the American Academy of […]
John Swinton and Harriet Mowat’s 2006 Practical Theology and Qualitative Research is a well-known resource on practical theology bibliographies. This updated second edition includes one new chapter and an appendix exploring themes related to analysis. Below, you can read the beginning of Jane M. Curry’s review of this second edition. Be sure to visit the Reading Religion website for […]
Today we are featuring STH doctoral student Matthew S. Beal’s review of Eileen R. Campbell-Reed’s Anatomy of a Schism: How Clergywomen’s Narratives Reinterpret the Fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention. Below is the beginning of Matt’s review, and be sure to visit the Reading Religion website for the full review.