Boston Theological Society

The Boston Theological Society is a colloquium for faculty of the Boston Theological Institute. It meets on a regular basis for dinner, discussion, and the presentation of current work by the Society's members. These meetings are by invitation only. For more details, please contact the BTI Office (617-527-4880) or  Professor Mark Heim, at  617-964-1100  Ext. 247 (Andover Newton Theological School), or by email at mheim@ants.edu.

2011-2012 Schedule

Thursday, November 3: Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM: St. Mary of Magdala: Ecclesiological Provocations 
Thursday, December 1: Wesley Wildman: Reframing Transcendence: Conditions for the Compatibility of Ground-of-Being Theism and Religious Naturalism
Thursday, February 9: Robert Daly: Is There a Phenomenology of Redemption?
Thursday, March 1: Robert C. Neville A Pragmatic Theory of Religion

2010-2011 Schedule

2008-2009 Schedule
Thursday, March 5, 2009: Robert C. Neville "God is What God Does"
Thursday, February 5, 2009: Charles Dickinson "God, Nature, and Sexuality: Some Ethical Questions"
Thursday, December 4, 2008: H. Paul Santmire "Reclaiming the Ecological Augustine: The Promise of Metaphorical Analysis"
Thursday, November 6, 2008: Wesley J. Wildman "Imiges of God in the Microbial Ocean"

2007-2008 Schedule
Thursday, November 1, 2007: Gordon Kaufman "TBA"
Thursday, December 6, 2007: Robert Daly, “Religion and Violence”
Wednesday, March 12, 2008: S. Mark Heim "Saved from Sacrifice"
Thursday, April 16, 2008: Roger Johnson "Political Theology"

2006-2007 Schedule
Thursday, November 19, 2006: Shelly Rambo "John Caputo’s "Philosophy and Theology""
Thursday, December 7, 2006: Paul Santmire, “Liturgy, Spirituality and Nature: Christian Practices and Traditions in a Time of Crisis”
Thursday, February 22, 2007: Charles Dickinson II "A Proposed 'Paradigm Shift' in Christology"
Thursday, April 12, 2007: Meghan T. Sweeney "The texts and life of Edith Stein"

2005-2006 Schedule
Thursday, November 3, 2005: Kirk Wegter-McNelly "Natural Evil in a Divinely Entangled World: An Analogy."
Thursday, December 8, 2005: Bob Daly, "Problems with Atonement"
Thursday, February 23, 2006: Sharon Thornton, "A Practical Theology for Holy Saturday"
Thursday, April 6, 2006: Wesley Wildmam, "Incongruous Goodness, Perilous Beauty, Disconcerting Truth: Ultimate Reality and Suffering in Nature"

2004-2005 Schedule
Thursday, November 4, 2004: Gordon Kaufman, "Mystery, God and Constructivism"
Thursday, December 2, 2004: Leslie Muray, "The Odd Couple: Clearance Darrow and George Burman Foster"
Thursday, February 24, 2005: Paul Lim, "Tracing the 'God Outside of Himself': The Augustinian Connection in Barth's Trinitarian Theology"
Thursday, April 7, 2005: Matthew Myer Boulton, "God Against Religion: Reconsidering Christian Worship"
Note: We will meet in the faculty lounge (now also known as the Peck Room) at Andover Newton Theological School.

2003-2004 Schedule
During the upcoming academic year the Boston Theological Society will meet four times, in the faculty lounge (now known also as the Peck Room) at Andover Newton Theological School. You can print your own copy, or can request a copy by contacting Mark Heim at mheim@ants.edu. Just, make a click on the title of the presentation! If you are not listed as a presenter, then please contact Mark Heim by email to indicate your willingness to be a respondent to one of the papers.

Thursday, November 6, 2003: Roger Johnston, The Beginnings of a Modern Theology of Religions: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Thursday, December 4, 2003: Bob Daly, The Phenomenology of Eucharistic Origins
Thursday, Febryary 26, 2004: Mark Heim, A Cross-section of Sin: Human Nature in Biological and Theological Perspective
Thursday, April 1, 2004: Charles Dickinson, The Dialectical Development of Doctrine A Methodological Proposal

2002-2003 Schedule
During the upcoming academic year the Boston Theological Society will meet four times, in the faculty lounge (now known also as the Peck Room) at Andover Newton Theological School.

Thursday, October 31, 2002: Francis X. Clooney: Hindu Goddesses and Christian Theology
Thursday, December 5, 2002: Roger Johnston, The Beginnings of a Modern Theology of Religions: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Thursday, March 6, 2003: Jack Brush, A Phenomenological Interpretation of Luther's Understanding of Faith
Thursday, April 10, 2003: Paul Santmire, Partnership with Nature According to the Scriptures: Beyond the Theology of Stewardship

2001-2002 Schedule
The first meeting of the Boston Theological Society will take place in the faculty lounge (now also known as Peck Room) at Andover Newton. Refreshments will be offered at 6:00pm, supper will be served at 6:30pm and the paper will be discussed from 7:30 to 9:00pm. Further information is being sent to members prior to the first meeting.

Thursday, November 8, 2001 Bob Daly: Sacrifice Revisited From Liturgical and Trinitarian Perspectives
Thursday, December 6, 2001 - Paper by Robert C. Neville: Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement
Thursday, March 7, 2002 Mark Burrows: Getting the World Right: Wallace Stevens on Imagination and 'The Vulgate of Experience'
Thursday, April 11, 2002 Catherine Cornille: Double Religious Belonging: Aspects and Questions

2000-2001 Schedule
Further information and a finalization of the schedule will be sent to members prior to the first meeting.

November 2, 2000 Gordon D. Kaufman My Life and My Theological Reflection: Two Central Themes
December 7, 2000 Mary Ann Hinsdale "Infinite Openness to the Ininite:" Karl Rahner's Contribution to Modern Catholic Thought on the Child
February 1, 2001 Louis Roy, O.P. Some Japanese Interpretations of Meister Eckart
April 5, 2001 Wesley Wildman Profound Experiences

1999-2000 Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: Dates have been changed to Thursdays. The following is a tentative listing of dates for the 1999-2000 BTS meetings. Further information and a finalization of the schedule will be sent to members prior to the first meeting.

October 14, 1999 Mark Heim The Depth of the Riches: Trinity and Religious Ends
November 18, 1999 Roger Haight, SJ The Logic of a Christology from Below
December 9, 1999 Sarah Coakley On the Eschatological Body: Judy Butler Meets Gregory of Nyssa
February 10, 2000 Frank Clooney, S.J. Beyond Comparative Theology: Reflections in the Hindu-Christian Context
March 9, 2000 Kurt Richardson Pantocrator/Politeuma: On the Place of the Political in Christian Theology
April 13, 2000 Aristotle Papanikolaou Person, kenosis and Abuse: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Feminist theologies in conversation

1998-1999 Schedule
The following is a listing of dates for the 1998-99 BTS meetings. Please note that the meeting dates have been changed from Tuesday to Monday, and that the October date is one week earlier than normal in order to avoid Columbus Day. Further information will be sent to members prior to the meeting.

October 5, 1998 Robert Daly, S.J. The Theological Significance of Ecumenical Convergence on "The Great Thanksgiving"
November 9, 1998 John Jefferson Davis Artificial Intelligence and the Christian Understanding of Personhood
December 14, 1998 Gordon Kaufman Ecological Consciousness and the Symbol "God"
February 8, 1999 Sarah Anne Coakley "Persons" in the "Social" Doctrine of the Trinity: Gregory of Nyssa and Current Analytic Discussion
March 8, 1999 Mark Burrows At the Threshold of Imagination: Rainer Maria Rilke and the Poetics of Theological Negation
April 12, 1999 Kurt Richardson Eschata, Utopia and Apatheia: Hype(r)-texts of Expectation

1997-1998 Schedule
October 14, 1997 Roger Haight The Impact of Pluralism on Christology
November 11, 1997 Jack Davis Quantum Indeterminacy & the Omniscience of God
December 9, 1997 David Tracy Fragments of Synthesis? The Hopeful Paradox of Depre's Modernity
February 10, 1998 Wesley Wildman Slipping into Horror: A Theological Approach to the Underside of Life
March 10, 1998 Roger Johnson Thomas Aquinas: A Single-Religion Theology
April 14, 1998 Robert Neville Contemporary Confucian Spirituality and Multiple Religious Identity
Members of the Boston Theological Society will receive the papers to be presented ten days before the date of the meeting.