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| Mary C. BoysSkinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology
Professor Mary C. Boys received her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University in a joint program with Union Theological Seminary, and has done advanced study at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the recipient of the degree Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, as well as the Doctor of Theology, honoris causa, from Catholic Theological Union.
Dr. Boys has been the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City since 1994. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to her present appointment, she served for seventeen years on the faculty of Boston College. She has served as visiting Lecturer of Religious Education at Princeton Theological Seminary, Claremont School of Theology, John Carroll University, Villanova University, and St. Mary's College (London, England). She has been a Lilly Research Fellow and is a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2005. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations, Journal of Religious Education (Australia), Teaching Theology and Religion, and Religious Education.
Prof. Boys served as co-director of the Lilly Endowment-sponsored "Religious Particularism and Pluralism" project that involved Jewish and Catholic educators and academics. She is a member of the boards of the Tanenbaum Foundation for Interreligious Understanding, the Suenens Foundation, the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, and The Catholic Theological Society of America. She also serves on the advisory committee for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Catholic Bishops. She was the recipient in 2005 of the Sternberg Award from the International Council of Christians and Jews. Prof. Boys has been a member since 1965 of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic women.
Of the many lectures, workshops, and panel discussions in which she has participated over the course of her career, in 2004, these venues provided a channel to address the controversy over Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of Christ. Amid the media frenzy, Prof. Boys gave numerous radio, television, and newspaper interviews, including interviews with the New York Times, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, tapings for National Public Radio and live interviews on many other radio stations, including ones in Canada and Israel. She appeared on PBS, the Today Show, News Night, CNN and a Hallmark Channel special. Prof. Boys is the author of five books: Biblical Interpretation in Religious Education (1980), Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions (1989), Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One Woman’s Experience (1997), Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding (2000), and a recently published. work, co-authored with Sara S. Lee of Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles: Christians and Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other (2006)(find book). Her edited books include the recently released Seeing Judaism Anew: A Sacred Obligation of Christians. She has also published some seventy articles in books and journals such as Concilium, Horizons, Religious Education, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Cross Currents, SIDIC, the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Midstream, the Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, and the Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America.
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Mary C. Boys
Euan K. Cameron
David M. Carr
Chung Hyun Kyung
James H. Cone
Alan Cooper
Samuel Cruz
Gary Dorrien
Esther J. Hamori
Serene Jones
Brigitte Kahl
Paul F. Knitter
Barbara K. Lundblad
Daisy L. Machado
Tyler D. Mayfield
John Anthony McGuckin
Troy Messenger
Christopher L. Morse
Su Yon Pak
Hal Taussig
Mark C. Taylor
Ann Belford Ulanov
Janet R. Walton
John B. Weaver
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