Faculty Publications
Faithful Friendships: Prof. Robert’s Publication receives Accolades
Professor Dana Robert‘s book Faithful Friendships: Embracing Diversity in Christian Community has been designated among the Top Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, World Christianity, and Intercultural Theology for 2019 by the International Bulletin of Mission Research. The publication has also been featured in a review on the Englewood Review website. “She invites the reader to […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for May 2020
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the month of May 2020. Filipe Maia: “The Pan-Amazon Synod,” in Concilium (n. 385: 2020/2). Info about the issue can be found at https://concilium.hymnsam.co.uk/issues/20202-masculinities-theological-and-religious-challenges/ Mary Elizabeth Moore: “Sacred, Revolutionary Teaching: Encountering Sacred Difference and Honest Hope,” Religious Education (April 2020), 1-13. [Doi: 10.1080/00344087.2020.1738044] […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for April 2020
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the month of April 2020. Cristian De La Rosa: “Latina Women and the Church: Mujeristas y Nepantleras,” Nevertheless She Leads: Postcolonial Women’s Leadership for the Church. United Methodist General Board of Higher Education, 2020. Walter Fluker: Walking with God: The Sermon Series […]
Assistant Professor Copeland Wins Award at CATA Conference
October 26, Rochester, NY – Assistant Professor of Theology Becky Copeland was this weekend awarded the first prize for the best paper in this year’s God’s Wisdom and the Wonder of Creation Conference of the Canadian-American Theological Association (CATA). Her paper, “Wells, Springs, and Commodification: Water Rights and Hagar’s Tribulations,” won The Jack and Phyllis Middleton Memorial […]
Recent Publications by Wariboko and Robert
Professor Nimi Wariboko recently published Ethics and Society in Nigeria. In this book, Prof. Wariboko studies forms of religious, political, and revolutionary identities and then assesses their usefulness for the transformation of Nigeria’s identity. “From ‘Give Us Friends’ to ‘Other Sheep I Have’: Transnational Friendship and Edinburgh 1910” was recently published by Professor Dana Robert. In the […]
Professor David Schnasa Jacobsen
Professor David Schnasa Jacobsen has published the following articles: “Sermon Feedback as Facework: Task and identity Goals in Mentoring Homiletical Theologians” in The Journal of Academy of Homiletics, Vol 43, No 2, 2018; “Going Public with the Means of Grace: A Homiletical Theology of Promise for Word and Sacrament in a Post-secular age” in Theology Today, vol. 75, […]
How Howard Thurman Met Gandhi and Brought Nonviolence to the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership Water E. Fluker penned an article featured today in The Conversation, “How Howard Thurman Met Gandhi and Brought Nonviolence to the Civil Rights Movement.” The full article is available here, and below are the introductory paragraphs of the article. January 31, 2019 – Director Martin Doblmeier’s […]
Nimi Wariboko publishes The Split God
The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory argues that the image of God that arises out of the everyday practices of Pentecostalism is a split God—a deity harboring a radical split that not only destabilizes and prevents God himself from achieving ontological completeness but also conditions and shapes the practices and identities of Pentecostal believers. Robert Cummings […]
Bryan Stone Publishes Finding Faith Today
Finding Faith Today presents the findings of a multi-year study on how people come to faith in the US context. The book sheds new light on how people come to faith and what sort of spiritual, practical, and social changes accompany that. Mark R. Teasdale, Associate Professor of Evangelism, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, says: “This book offers a […]
Does God Ordain Domestic Violence?
Does God Ordain Domestic Violence? STH’s Steven Sandage studies religious “myths” that justify abuse of women By Rich Barlow – In June, Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided that domestic violence is inadequate grounds for granting asylum. Sessions’ announcement followed President Trump’s defense of aide Rob Porter, accused of abuse by two ex-wives (subsequently amended with a presidential condemnation of […]