Faculty Steering Committees and Task Forces

Faculty Steering Committees and Task Forces are constituted on occasions of academic or ecclesial interest n line with the direction of the BTI Board of Trustees. Recent examples of such are the following:

2008-2010
A Faculty Steering Committee was put together to advance interest in discussions around the question of an “Abrahamic Family.” This led to a course of that name at Boston College with participation at the Parliament of World’s Religions, to a regional conference, “Educating Jewish, Christian and Muslim Leaders in an Age of Religious Diversity,” June 15-16, 2009 on the Andover Newton and Hebrew College campuses, and to a national conference, “Educating Jewish, Christian and Muslim Leaders for a Multi-Religious World: The American Seminary Context,” April 14-16, on the Andover Newton and Hebrew College campuses. The latter conference is sponsored together with the Association of Theological Schools in the USA and Canada and is with thanks to the Fetzer Institute and the Henry Luce Foundation.

2007-2009
The Faculty Task Force on Ecclesiology responded to a request from the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches to comment on the document, The Nature and Mission of the Church.

2006-2008
The Faculty Task Force on Overcoming Violence led to the following developments:
1) A course offered at Harvard Divinity School, HDS 2829: “Overcoming Violence: Practical Theology and Conflict Resolution.”
2) A response to the draft “Just Peace Declaration” (2008) of the Decade to Overcome Violence.
3) Student contributions were made to a Just Peace Declaration (2006-2008) by classes of students from Boston University School of Theology, Harvard Divinity School, and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.