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Rodney
L. Petersen
Executive Director
Boston Theological Institute (BTI)
BA,
Harvard College
M.Div., Harvard Divinity School
Th. M., Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
Institut Oecuménique (Genève, Switzerland)
Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation, Université
de Genève
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Rodney Petersen has been Executive Director of the Boston Theological
Institute since moving to the Boston area from Switzerland in
1990. In addition to this work with the BTI, he teaches in both
the member schools and overseas. He teaches in the areas of
history and ethics, currently focusing on issues of religion
and conflict. Together with BTI colleagues these courses have
taken students to various regions of the world in order to understand
and film ways in which faith communities are implicated in regional
violence and how they can be avenues of reconciliation. He is
an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., serving
on several of their committees and served for seven years as
the pastor of the Allston Congregational Church (U.C.C.).
Prior
work included teaching at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
(Deerfield, Illinois), Webster University (Geneva, Switzerland),
and with the Fédération des Institutions établies
à Genève (FIIG). He also worked with churches
in France and Eastern Europe, primarily Romania.
He
is a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Council
of Churches, the Massachusetts Commission on Christian Unity,
the Lord’s Day Alliance of the USA, the Refugee Immigration
Ministry, Sec/tres. American Society of Missiology (Eastern
Fellowship), and numerous other academic and ecclesiastical
organizations. He is author or editor (and co-editor) and contributor
of several articles and scholarly works, including the books,
Preaching in the Last Days (Oxford University Press,
1993); Christianity and Civil Society: Theological Education
for Public Life (Orbis Books, 1995); Consumption, Population,
and Sustainability: Perspectives from Science and Religion (Washington,
D. C.: Island Press, 1999), with accompanying video, “Living
in Nature.”; The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University.
A Festschrift in Honor of Professor George H. Williams (Kirksville,
MO: Truman University Press, 1999), Earth at Risk (Amherst:
Humanity Books, 2000), Forgiveness
and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and Conflict Transformation
(Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2001, 2002), Theological
Literacy for the 21st Century (Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 2002); and Antioch
Agenda: Essays in Honor of Orlando E. Costas (ISPCK,
2007).
CURRENT
CLASS at Harvard Divinity School