CPT Today
CPT Today is the blog of The Center for Practical Theology. Here you’ll find posts under the categories of Book Reviews, News and Events, Opportunities, Perspectives, Practical Theology Profiles, and Research Reflections. Interested in submitting? Please see our submission guidelines and feel free to be in touch with cpt@bu.edu with any questions!
The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence, by Thomas Oord
Please see Vaughn Baker's review of Thomas Oord's The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence. The pieces is available here: The Uncontrolling Love of God. Thomas Oord has generously made the audiofiles of The Uncontrolling Love of God available for free.
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Thought and Practice
Review by Len Krimerman: http://geo.coop/story/collective-courage-celebratory-review
2015 Annual Lecture
Experiencing Oppression: Ventriloquism and Epistemic Violence in Practical Theology
Dr. Courtney T. Goto
The Center for Practical Theology hosted the Eighth Annual Lecture 
Series with Dr. Courtney T. Goto as the guest lecturer for the evening. Dr. Goto's lecture was entitled "Experiencing Oppression: Ventriloquism and Epistemic Violence in Practical Theology. She is the Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Boston University School of Theology.
Dr. Goto states in her lecture, "epistemic violence, is an experience of oppression from the inside, is ever-present and thus present throughout the academy." Her lecture explores the experience of epistemic violence in practical theology, where we are given institutional authority to interpret and represent the lived experience of others, as well as the responsibility to shape student experience. She uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to explore practical theologians as performers who, by virtue by our position, makes dummies of those we are attempting to serve, including subjects of research, colleagues, and students.
Faith in Objects: American Missionary Expositions in the Early Twentieth Century, by Erin L. Hasinoff
Please see the review by Dr. Dana Robert entitled "Performing World Missions in 1911," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Winter/Spring 2015):84-87.
Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode, by Lisa M. Hess
Review by Sang-il Kim, PhD Student in Practical Theology, Boston University School of Theology may be found in: Religious Education: The official journal of the Religious Education Association, Volume 109, Issue 2, 2015.
Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts, edited by Jon A. Levisohn and Susan. P. Fendrick
Review by Sang-il Kim, PhD Student in Practical Theology, Boston University School of Theology may be found in: Religious Education: The official journal of the Religious Education Association, Volume 110, Issue 2, 2015.
Exploring Prosperity Preaching , by Debra J. Mumford
Review in Homiletic by Song Bok (Bob) Jon, Ph.D. candidate, Boston University, Boston, MA may be found by clicking here.
The Celtic Way of Evangelism, by George Hunter
Book review submitted by Christopher B. James, Ph.D. Candidate in Practical Theology, Concentrations: Evangelism and Church & Society. Review originally appeared on jesusdust.com
Moral, Believing Animals, by Christian Smith
Book review submitted by Christopher B. James, Ph.D. Candidate in Practical Theology, Concentrations: Evangelism and Church & Society. Review originally appeared on jesusdust.com
American Evangelicalism, by Christian Smith
Book review submitted by Christopher B. James, Ph.D. Candidate in Practical Theology, Concentrations: Evangelism and Church & Society. Review originally appeared on jesusdust.com