{"id":439,"date":"2009-08-05T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:45:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/?attachment_id=721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-721 alignleft\" src=\"\/cpt\/files\/2010\/03\/09_1681_STHVIEWS_154-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh Doorway\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/files\/2010\/03\/09_1681_STHVIEWS_154-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/files\/2010\/03\/09_1681_STHVIEWS_154-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/files\/2010\/03\/09_1681_STHVIEWS_154.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Center for Practical Theology<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Center for Practical Theology seeks to provide a bridge between the scholarly resources, questions, and insights of a university-based theological seminary and the wisdom, questions, and traditions of communities of faith.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the Center provides an infrastructure for sustaining, deepening, and expanding important relationships and connections between Boston University School of Theology and local congregations, denominational offices, and religious centers so that they may be more integrally incorporated into student learning and faculty teaching and research. The Center was created in January 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Practical Theology The Center for Practical Theology seeks to provide a bridge between the scholarly resources, questions, and insights of a university-based theological seminary and the wisdom, questions, and traditions of communities of faith. In doing so, the Center provides an infrastructure for sustaining, deepening, and expanding important relationships and connections between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1743,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}