Bryan P. Stone

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism; Co-Director for the Center for Practical Theology

Bryan Stone has served as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism in the School of Theology since 1998 and has a background in new church development, urban pastoral ministry, and faith-based nonprofit development. His most recent books are Evangelism After Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness (2007) and Sabbath in the City: Sustaining Urban Pastoral Excellence (2008), co-authored with Claire Wolfteich. His research, publishing, and teaching interests are in the areas of evangelism, congregational development, urban ministry, ecclesiology, theology and popular culture (including especially film studies), Christian pacifism, and Wesleyan, liberation, narrativist, and post-liberal theologies. Bryan and his wife live on campus at Boston University where they serve as faculty-in-residence in Warren Towers. Dr. Stone is also the author of Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema (2000), Compassionate Ministry: Theological Foundations (1996), and Effective Faith: A Critical Study of the Christology of Juan Luis Segundo (1994). He is co-editor of Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan and Process Theologies in Dialogue (2001).