Boston Theological Institute (BTI) is the largest theological consortium in the world, bringing together the resources of universities and divinity schools throughout the greater Boston area and some of the most prestigious educational institutions. Its member schools include the following:

• Andover Newton Theological School
• Boston College
  Boston College
  Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
  
   Department of Theology
• Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (formerly Weston Jesuit School of Theology)
• Boston University School of Theology
  Boston University School of Theology
  Boston University School of Theology is the oldest theological seminary of American Methodism and the founding school of Boston University, the largest private research university in New England. It is one of thirteen theological schools maintained by the United Methodist Church...
  
  
• Episcopal Divinity School
  Episcopal Divinity School
  The Episcopal Divinity School is a seminary of the Episcopal Church based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known throughout the Anglican Communion for prophetic teaching and action on issues of civil rights and social justice, its faculty and students have been directly involved in many of the social...
  
  
• Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
  Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
  Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary whose main campus is based in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, with three other campuses in Boston, Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville. The current president of Gordon-Conwell is Dennis Hollinger...
  
  
• Harvard Divinity School
  Harvard Divinity School
  Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public...
  
  
• Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
• St. John's Seminary
  St. John's Seminary (Massachusetts)
  Saint John's Seminary, located in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a Catholic major seminary sponsored by the Archdiocese of Boston....
  
  

Currently, the BTI is led by Rodney L. Petersen

Rodney L. Petersen

Rodney Lawrence Petersen is an American scholar in the area of history, ethics, and religious conflict.He moved to the Boston area from Switzerland in 1990 and currently works as the Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute. In addition to this work with the BTI, he teaches in both...

 as its Executive Director. The assistant director is Marian Gh. Simion, a Romanian-American

Romanian-American

A Romanian American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry, while 462,526 persons declared to have Romanian ancestry...

 specialist in the study of religion, politics and religious conflicts.

Mission statement

The Boston Theological Institute is a consortium of nine theological schools and seminaries in the Boston area. We exist to share our resources and enrich each school through this institutional expression of the transformative and hospitable faith that is our common heritage. We harness our collective resources to advance ecumenical relations, model good stewardship, strengthen our teaching and research, and more fully engage our community and the world. In all these we seek to advance our individual missions and better prepare a new generation of scholars and leaders for the Church and the world.
[Adopted at the BTI Board of Trustees Meeting of January 29, 2009,
hosted by Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology]

Publications

The Bulletin of the Boston Theological Institute, ISSN 1538-6597, was founded in the Fall of 2001 by Marian Gh. Simion. Its chief objective is to draw attention to the past and future activities of the schools and their faculties. The Bulletin is published once a semester, in September and January, pointing to current events in the schools, new faculty publications, articles, announcements, issues in international mission and ecumenical relationships, as well as aspects in the interrelationship between science and religion. Given its increase in prestige, the BTI Board of Trustees determined that this publication will be renamed as BTI Magazine starting with the fall 2009 issue.

Activities

The BTI supports numerous activities in the Boston area related to religion and social justice

Social justice

Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...

. Students and seminarians from schools within the Boston Theological Institute, as well as area school undergraduates, regularly accompany and assist its clergy and lay volunteers of The Outdoor Church

The Outdoor Church

The Outdoor Church is an outdoor ministry to homeless men and women in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers prayer and communion services and pastoral assistance outdoors in all seasons and all weather in order to be accessible to men and women who, because of shame or embarrassment, hostility or...

which ministers to the homeless population of Boston.

External links

• Boston Theological Institute