Faculty Directory

Austin Seminary has an exceptional faculty. Leaders in their fields of scholarship and teachers who garner respect and affection, our professors embody and impart to students what is so good about this seminary: hospitality, a passion for rigorous learning and Christian service, and a deep commitment to a church in and for the world. Most faculty members bring pastoral experience to bear on their teaching and scholarly work. All of them strive to prepare ministers and other leaders for competent and relevant service, whether in the church or the larger public sphere. These men and women are visionary, wise, talented, challenging, and fun. They will help you grow intellectually and vocationally, and they are eager to welcome you to Austin Seminary.

Allan Hugh Cole Jr.
Academic Dean

Rev. Dr. Whitney Bodman

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Faculty Information

Location(s) McMillan Building

Departments(s) Faculty

Title(s) Associate Professor of Comparative Religion

Contact Information

(Primary)

School Phone

512-404-4835

Other Information

Biography

Education

BA, University of North Carolina, 1973

MDiv, Duke University, 1977

ThD, Harvard Divinity School, 2004, Dissertation: The Poetics of Iblis: Qur'anic Narrative as Theology, Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion

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Bio

Whitney S. Bodman came to Austin Seminary in 2002 from Harvard Divinity School where he completed his Th.D. in Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies. During graduate school he served as interim at the Congregational Churches in Wrentham and Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Bodman also taught at Harvard Divinity School as a teaching fellow and at Hellenic College in Brookline.

A 1977 MDiv graduate of Duke Divinity School, Dr. Bodman was ordained in the United Church of Christ. He has pastored several churches in Massachusetts, and has been involved in various interfaith organizations including the Interfaith Relations Commission of the National Council of Churches and the Massachusetts Conference of Churches Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian Dialogues. His current research focuses on the Qur’an, modern Islam in the Middle East, and rituals of sacred space and pilgrimage.   

He is currently active in Interfaith Action (iAct) and Austin Interfaith and sits on the Boards of Directors of Texas Impact and the Texas Conference of Churches.