The newest member of the BTI Consortium is
Hartford Seminary located in Hartford, CT. They joined one year ago and have already become active in Consortium activities. A few interesting facts:
- Its roots go back to 1834 when a group of Congregational ministers gathered to train church leadership.
- In 1889, it became the first seminary in America to admit women.
- Fast forward to 1972 when HartSem restructured its programs to focus on laity and clergy leadership, congregational research, and Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim relations.
- The Imam Ali Chair for Shi’i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools, created in 2015, was the first academic chair dedicated to Shi’i studies in North America
- The school’s PhD program in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations welcomed its first students in 2017.
The trip to Hartford is about 100 miles, but Boston-area students should note that HartSem offers more online courses than any other BTI Consortium member. For the spring semester, there are eight online classes addressing such topics as Islamic spirituality, textual history of the Qur’an, and history and memory in medieval and modern times. You can see the whole list towards the front of our
online catalog. Take a look!
All the best for the start of the second semester!
-Ann McClenahan, Executive Director
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Around the BTI Consortium
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What would Maimonides say if he lived now? How would our reading of the Torah change if it were on an iPad rather than a scroll? We update our phones, we update our operating systems, why not update our Judaism?
Join Eser in Spring 2019 for “Ten Millennial Updates to Jewish Living.” Over the course of the 10 weeks — from the first week in March through mid-May — Eser groups will gather throughout Greater Boston to converse about diverse including race, love and sex, the passage of time, the Holocaust, bioethics, Jewish humor and more.
What is Eser? Eser is Hebrew for 10, a number with special significance in Judaism. Eser brings together individuals in their 20s and 30s for conversations in neighborhood living rooms to build connection and community.
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Classifieds and Calls for Papers/Conferences
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Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
Applications due February 1, 2019
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2019 Oxford Symposia on Religious Studies
Submissions due March 4, 2019
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Toptal
Applications due March 31, 2019
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Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Submissions due May 1, 2019
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CROSS-REGISTER
Our member schools are beginning to post courses for the Spring 2019 Semester! Over 90% of BTI students who cross-register would highly recommend it to a friend or colleague. Cross-registration is open!
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BTI Consortium Newsletter - Spring Publication Schedule
This spring we will continue distributing newsletters every two weeks on Monday morning. Deadlines for submission are at noon the Thursday prior to publication. The deadline for the next newsletter is
Thursday, January 31. Email
btinews@bostontheological.org to submit an event or announcement.
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