BTI - The Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium
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Aims
The Boston Theological Institute, founded in 1968, is a consortium of ten theological schools and seminaries in the Boston area. It seeks to enrich each member school's mission, advance intentional collaboration, and share resources in order to advance interreligious and ecumenical learning; to strengthen teaching, learning and research; to maximize the stewardship of resources; and to engage the member schools in building interreligious community.
The majority of the schools were founded in the 1800’s, reflecting Boston’s long history as the U.S.centre of theological education. The schools affiliated are Anglican, Evangelical, Jewish, Methodist, United Church of Christ, Nondenominational, Nonsectarian, Orthodox and Catholic traditions. HebrewCollege, the ‘newest’ institution, has been training scholars in Judaism for almost 80 years. All schools are accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United Statesand Canada and/or the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.
Board of Directors
Board: Martin Copenhaver (President), Richard Gaillardetz (Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology), Thomas Stegman S. J. (BTI Secretary & Treasurer), Mary Elizabeth Moore (BTI Chair), Dennis Hollinger (President, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), Joel N. Lohr (President Hartford Seminary), Dudley C. Rose (Associate Dean/Harvard Divinity School), Sharon Cohen Anisfeld (President, Hebrew College), Christopher Metropulos (President, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology), Stephen Salocks (Interim Rector and Dean of students, Saint John's Seminary).
Staff: Ann McClenahan (Executive Director), Alexandra Brandon (Assistant Director), Micah Norman-Pace (Project Manager), Jill Arnold (Field Education Intern).
The BostonTheological Institute
Mailing Address:
Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium
213 Bay State Road, Second Floor
Boston, MA 02115
213 Bay State Road, Second Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Email: btioffice@bostontheological.org
Tel: 617-353-7664
Services and Resources
Together, the BTI schools offer over 40 degree programs.
We point out the “Science, Religion, and Culture” program at Harvard Divinity School. It is possible to have access to Cosmologics, a space for new and insightful conversations aimed at understanding the interactions of science and religion. The writing in Cosmologics moves beyond polemics in favour of one or the other and instead encounters each concept anew through the lenses of race, gender, and inequality. A website is dedicated to Cosmologics Magazine.
A section of the website is dedicated to the Summer Projects.
The BTI co-sponsors student conferences across member schools.
Religious Confession
The BTI includes members of different religous confessions. The majority of the theological schools have a Christian inspiration.
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Assessed on: March 2019