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Submissions from 2022 2022.

(Graduate Paper) The Role and Characteristic of Love in 1 Corinthians 13 , Ninh Van Nguyen

(Master's Thesis) Synodality as the Listening Church: Pope Francis Continues and Expands Vatican II's Teaching on Collegiality , Toan Van Phan O.Cist

Submissions from 2021 2021

(Graduate Paper) Pauline Theology: The Interdependently Called Body of Christ , Katryna Bertucci

(Master's Thesis) The Glory of the Lord Whose Likeness is as the Appearance of a Human Being/Adam: A Study of Ezekiel’s Son of Man/Adam Anthropology , Timothy R. Schmeling

(Graduate Paper) The Power, (Problem), and Potential of Prayer , Meghan E. Stretar

Submissions from 2020 2020

(Graduate Paper) How Can Catholic Youth Programs Improve the Youth’s Connection To the Mass? , Elizabeth Cook

(Graduate Paper) Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: A Glimpse Into the Theme of Righteousness Through the Anthropology, Theology, and Spirituality of the Psalms , Elizabeth Cook

(Graduate Paper) Introducing Queer Theology , Cole Epping

(Graduate Paper) Taking Care of the Forgotten: A Pastoral Response to the Hospice Care Professional , Constance Friebohle

(Graduate Paper) A Global Church in the Local Parish: Fostering Intercultural Competency for Indonesian Catholic Ministry in the United States , Janice Kristanti

(Graduate Paper) The Indispensability of Inculturation For Effective Evangelization: Revisiting The Evangelization of Sub-Saharan Africa , Mark Obeten

(Graduate Paper) Seeking a New Paradigm for Youth Ministry of Waegwan Abbey, South Korea , Cyprian Ji-Eung Ryu

(Graduate Paper) The Catholic Church and the Turn of the 20th Century: An Anthropology of Human Flourishing and a Church for Peace , Maria Siebels

(Graduate Paper) The Wounded Body of Christ: Social Trauma in Pastoral Care , Kelsi Watters

Submissions from 2019 2019

(Graduate Paper) A Non-Dualistic Reading of Body and Soul in the Gospel of Matthew: Focusing on Matthew 10:39 in the Context of Discipleship , Alexander Blechle

Submissions from 2018 2018

(Graduate Paper) Catholic Social Teaching and the Christian Responsibility to the Poor , Rose Aspholm

(Master's Thesis) Not Quite Calvinist: Cyril Lucaris a Reconsideration of His Life and Beliefs , Stephanie Falkowski

(Graduate Paper) Life or Death and Other False Dichotomies: A Theology of Hospice , Kayla Stock

Submissions from 2017 2017

(Master's Thesis) On Dionysian Theological Methodology , Joseph Arrendale

(Graduate Paper) The Transcendence of the Apprehension of Beauty , Mary Abigail Coleman

(Graduate Paper) The Paradox of Remarkable/Unremarkable Julian of Norwich , John P. Fitzgibbons

(Book Chapter) Agape Unbound in Silence and Deep River , Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith

(Graduate Paper) Formed for Diverse Communion: Toward Developing An Ecumenical Formation Process for New Members of Holy Wisdom Monastery’s Sunday Assembly , Rosy Kandathil OSB

(Graduate Paper) A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed Up: Paradoxical and Generative Metaphors of Enclosure in Medieval Female Anchoritism , Cody Maynus Obl.S.B.

(Graduate Paper) The Gospel of Mark , Nancy McCabe

(Master's Thesis) A Theological Retrieval of Communal Parenting as a Moral Response to Baby Stealing and Childlessness in Nigeria , Henry U. Omeike

(Graduate Paper) Do This, in Memory of Me! , Joseph Qiu-Lin Zhang

Submissions from 2016 2016

(Master's Thesis) A Church Built on Charity: Augustine's Ecclesiology , Michael J. Clinger Jr

(Graduate Paper) A Story of Identity in the Christian East , Manya Gustafson

(Graduate Paper) Jude's Enochian Apocalypse , Lucian López OSB

(Graduate Paper) Matthew's Least Brothers and It's Application in the Catholic Church , Runbao Zhang

Submissions from 2015 2015

(Electronic Book) Illuminating Christ , Jessie Bazan

(Master's Thesis) Gifting Freedom to the Samaritan: Considerations on access to both the sacramental event and salvation for those who, for whatever reason, find themselves outside the Church, and the consequences of identity for the Church in gifting such access , C. A. Chase

(Graduate Paper) My Brother's a Jerk and Dad's Gonna Spank Him: Roles and Relations in Obadiah , Aletta Stumo

Submissions from 2014 2014

(Graduate Paper) Christology, Theology, & Evolution in Celia Deane-Drummond's Christ and Evolution , Trevor Beach SJ

(Graduate Paper) Joy as Illumination: Participation in God's Life-giving Trinitarian Love , Trevor Beach SJ

(Graduate Paper) Consideration of the Church's Identity and Mission, Predicated on the Church Be-ing 'Ligamen' (Bond) , C. A. Chase

(Graduate Paper) Observations on the Performative Force of the Qyama and the Ihidaye, and its Pertinancy Today , C. A. Chase

(Graduate Paper) Christ, the Meeting Point of Sacramental and Trinitarian Theology , Nathan Peter Chase

(Graduate Paper) The Christological Remnants within Eucharistic Prayers , Nathan Peter Chase

(Master's Thesis) With Eyes That See: The Role of Spiritual Vision in the Ascent of Nyssen Noetic Theology , Benjamin Rush

(Master's Thesis) St. John of the Cross and the Denudation of the Soul , Wesley Sutermeister

Submissions from 2013 2013

(Graduate Paper) A History and Analysis of the Missel Romain pour les Diocese du Zaire , Nathan Peter Chase

(Graduate Paper) The Development of the Epiclesis: Alexandrian or Syrian? , Nathan Peter Chase

Submissions from 2011 2011

(Graduate Paper) Short-Term Solution, Long-Term Problem: The Rite of Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest and its Use in the United States of America , Christopher Angel

(Graduate Paper) Welcome (Back): The Use of Initiatory Elements in the Reconciliation of Heretics to the Early Church , Christopher Angel

(Graduate Paper) The Gospel of Matthew: The Temple Cleansing in 21:12-17 , Kasey Devine

(Graduate Paper) The "Ladder" of the Lord's Plagues , Kasey DeVine

Submissions from 2010 2010

(Graduate Paper) St. John Chrysostom and His Message of Social Justice Today , Joel Cassady

(Graduate Paper) Trinitarian Christology: The Grammar of The Christian Faith and the Foundation for a Theology of Religious Pluralism , Eric Christensen

(Graduate Paper) Entering into the Profound Mystery: Yves Congar’s Via Media on the Salvation of People of Non-Christian Religions , Elizabeth M. Cunneen

Submissions from 2009 2009

(Graduate Paper) Ego Eimi Formula and a Sense of Continuity in John’s Gospel Chapter Sixth (Jn 6: v.20, vss.35-58) , John Changjin Bai

(Graduate Paper) Jesus the Christ as a Jun-Zi in Confucian Perspectives , John Changjin Bai

(Graduate Paper) An Exegesis of 1 Corinthians 12:31 - 13:1-3 , Gregory Congote OSB

(Graduate Paper) Gregory Palamas and Hesychasm , Gregory Congote OSB

(Graduate Paper) Modern Usury: The Moral Challenge of Credit Cards in Light of Catholic Teaching and Practice in the Past and the Present , David R. Smoker

Submissions from 2008 2008

(Graduate Paper) Community in the Theology of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard , Nicholas Coffman

(Graduate Paper) Jean-Luc Marion’s Theology of Eucharistic Presence , Nicholas Coffman

(Graduate Paper) Proclaiming the Truth of Beauty , Larry Fraher

(Graduate Paper) Augustine of Hippo and Elizabeth de la Trinite: A Conversation across the Centuries , Vernon W. Goodin

(Graduate Paper) "Who Do You Say That I Am?" The Role of Story in Christology , Vernon W. Goodin

(Graduate Paper) Sufficere, “It Is Enough”: Avarice vs. Simplicity and Detachment in the Rule of Saint Benedict , Arlen M. Hanson

(Graduate Paper) Stories in Stained Glass: An Analysis of the Stained-Glass Windows at Saint Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin , Timothy A. Johnston

(Master's Thesis) Wittgenstein and Worship: Investigations of Liturgical Language-Games and Their Formative Role in Christian Identity , Michelle Kathleen Weber

Submissions from 2007 2007

(Graduate Paper) Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Prophet & Martyr , Fr. Michael Calhoun OSB

(Graduate Paper) Saint Basil: Monastic Reformer , Fr. Michael Calhoun OSB

(Graduate Paper) Looking at Conflict Diamonds Through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching , Heather Cherpelis

(Graduate Paper) “Allegorical Typologies” of the Eucharist: An Analysis of Some Eastern Liturgical Commentaries , Nathaniel G. Costa

(Graduate Paper) “For All the Saints”: A Feast for All People and All Time , Nathaniel G. Costa

(Graduate Paper) Eternal Hope: The Story of Sr. Mary Luke Tobin and Other Women who Participated in Vatican Council II , Megan S. Enninga

(Graduate Paper) Vulgar and Ascetic Christians: the Myth of a Higher Spirituality The rhetoric of monastic profession as a second baptism , August L. Gothman

(Graduate Paper) Active Participation and the Song of the Assembly , William Griffiths

(Graduate Paper) Transforming both the gifts and the people: Eucharistic presence , William Griffiths

(Graduate Paper) “You Can Become All Flame”: Do the Desert Fathers Have Anything to Say to Us Today? , Arlen M. Hanson

(Graduate Paper) Toward a Domestic Ecclesiology: The "Domestic Church" Finds Articulation in Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" , Craig James St. Clair

(Graduate Paper) Celebrating the Communion Rite , Jay Stimac

(Graduate Paper) Karl Rahner: On Grace and Salvation , Nicole Streit

(Graduate Paper) One Body, One Spirit, One Priesthood; Many Members, Many Charisms, Many Ministries: Reflections Anglican and Catholic , Cody C. Unterseher

(Graduate Paper) Arianism, Athanasius, and the Effect on Trinitarian Thought , Andy Witchger

(Graduate Paper) How the Parish and School of St. Agnes Creates Vocations , Andy Witchger

Submissions from 2006 2006

(Graduate Paper) How Paul and the Jerusalem Council Might Speak to Division in the Twenty-First Century Church , Mary Birmingham

(Master's Thesis) Becoming One Spirit: Origen and Evagrius Ponticus on Prayer , Hilary Case OSB

(Graduate Paper) Syncletica: Urban Ascetic and Desert Mother , Susan Dreyer OSB

(Graduate Paper) The Education of Heloise in Twelfth-Century France , Susan Dreyer OSB

(Graduate Paper) A Woman of the Reformation , Megan S. Enninga

(Graduate Paper) A Key and Classic Text: Ephesians 5:21-33 , Katinka Nadine Ellen Evers

(Graduate Paper) Concealing to Reveal: Modesty in Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body , Katinka Nadine Ellen Evers

(Graduate Paper) Sex in the City of God , Diana Macalintal

(Graduate Paper) The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ecclesial Discipleship and Redemption , Diane Draxler Pederson

(Graduate Paper) The Spiritual Potential of Poetry , Carl Schlueter

(Graduate Paper) Complicating the Poor Widow’s Gift: Exegesis on Mk. 12:41-44 , Timothy Traynor

(Graduate Paper) "We Should Glory in the Cross:" The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and its Contemporary Liturgical Significance , Cody C. Unterseher

Submissions from 2005 2005

(Graduate Paper) Hermeneutics and Liturgical Space: Interpreting the Domus Ecclesiae - Domus Dei , Gregory Reed Beath

(Graduate Paper) Eros: Human and Divine , Denae M. Fielder

(Graduate Paper) And the Question Became Flesh: Jesus the Catechist in the Gospel of John , Diana Macalintal

(Graduate Paper) Hesychast Prayer: Attending the Cosmic Banquet of the Heart , Tamara Ann Moore

(Graduate Paper) A Study in Spiritual Lineage: The "Influence and Noninfluence" of Pseudo-Dionysius on The Cloud of Unknowing , David M. Odorisio

(Graduate Paper) The Cistercian Spirit in Stone , David M. Odorisio

(Graduate Paper) Architectural Reforms of Eucharistic Reservation , Diane Draxler Pederson

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PhD Dissertations

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Mohamed Lamallam, Society, Religion and Political Power: The Theory of ulfa jāmi’a (Social Harmony) in the Socio-Political Works of al-Māwardī (d.450/1058). Advisor: Paul Heck.

Arunjana Das, A Hindu-Christian Approach Towards Peace-Making: How do Theological Discourse and Agency Emerge in Religious Systems? Advisor: Ariel Glucklich.

James Shelton Nalley, Towards a Holy Friendship: Reflecting on Interreligious Friendship with Thomas Aquinas and Ibn al-ʿArabī. Advisor: Stephen Fields.

Susan O’Neill Hayward, Enduring War and Enduring Peace: Religion, Resilience, and Resistance. Advisor: Jose Casanova.

Jordan Denari Duffner, Muḥammad’s Character as “Fruit of the Spirit”: Toward a Catholic Pneumatology of the Prophet of Islam. Advisor: Leo Lefebure.

Nan Kathy Lin, Religious Change as Seen Through Buddhist Environmentalism; 2023. Advisor: Francisca Cho.

Halla Attallah, Gender and (In)fertility in the Qur’ān’s Annunciation Type-Scenes ; 2023. Advisor: Julia Watts Belser.

Danielle Lynn Clausnitzer, The Roots of Rootwork: Addressing Contemporary Concerns of Hoodoo Practitioners ; 2023. Advisor: Joseph Murphy.

Kirsty Jones, Barren, Blind, Berserk: (Un)Assuming Disability and Madness in Judges 13-16 ; 2023. Advisor: Julia Watts Belser.

Nathan Chapman Lean, Journey to the One: Jazz as an Expression of Islam, 1940-1970 ; 2023. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Ray Kim, Halal in Korea: The Social Constructions of a Contested Category in a Globalized World ; 2022. Advisor: Jose Casanova.

Teng Kuan Ng, Wisdom Cinema: Buddhism and Film in Contemporary China ; 2022. Advisor: Francisca Cho.

Theodore Dedon, Conciliarity, Nationalism, and the Roman Social Imaginary: A History of Political and Ecclesiastical Ideas on the Separation and Integration of Powers ; 2022. Advisor: Drew Christiansen.

Tasi B. Perkins, The Thirst, And The Sun, And The Bleeding”: Husayn As A Passible Liminal Figure in Pro-ʿAlid Hagiography ; 2022. Advisor: William Werpehowski.

Steven Matthew Gertz, Inter-Religious Relations in a Sectarian Milieu: Fatimid Rulers in Relationship to Their Melkite Christian Subjects in Palestine and Egypt ; 2020. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Easten G. Law, Discerning a Lived Chinese Protestant Theology: Everyday Life and Encounters with the Other in Contemporary China ; 2020. Advisor: Peter Phan.

Joel David Daniels, Does the Wind Bend or Break the Grass? A Comparative Study of Pentecostal Spirituality and Chinese Religious Thought ; 2020. Advisor: Erin Cline.

Michael David Friedman, Our Problems and Our Future: Jews and America ; 2019. Advisor: Jonathan Ray.

Joshua Clark Mugler, A Martyr with Too Many Causes: Christopher of Antioch (d. 967) and Local Collective Memory ; 2019. Advisor: Paul Heck.

Peter Charles Herman, Overcoming Whiteness: A Critical Comparison of James Cone’s Black Liberation Theology and Shinran’s Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism ; 2019. Advisor: Peter Phan.

Stephanie Marie Wong, From Subjects to Citizens of the State and of God’s People: Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe (1877-1940) and the Project to Indigenize the Chinese Catholic Church in Republican China ; 2018. Advisor: Peter Phan.

Matthew Mitchell Anderson, Prohibited Speech and the Sacred: Critically and Constructively Engaging Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī’s (d.756/1355) al-Sayf al-maslūl ‘alā man sabba al-rasūl ; 2018. Advisor: Paul Heck.

Joshua Canzona, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Muhammad Iqbal on Human Consciousness and Sociality: A Critical Comparison ; 2018. Advisor: Leo Lefebure.

Nicholas John Boylston, Writing the Kaleidoscope of Reality: The Significance of Diversity in the 6th/12th Century Persian Metaphysical Literature of Sanā’ī, ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt and ‘Aṭṭār ; 2017. Advisor: Paul Heck.

Rahel Fischbach, Politics of Scripture. Discussions of the Historical-Critical Approach to the Qur’an ; 2017. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Matthew D. Taylor, Commonsense Scripturalism: The Textual Identities of Salafi Muslims and Evangelical Christians in America ; 2017. Advisor: Paul Heck.

Taraneh Rosanna Wilkinson, Dialectics Not Dualities: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue ; 2017. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Jason Welle, Clarifying Companionship: Al-Sulamī’s (D. 412/1021) Kitāb Ādāb Al-Ṣuḥba ; 2016. Advisor: Paul Heck.

Pietro Lorenzo Maggioni, Comparative Theology: Toward a Semiotic Theological Foundation ; 2016. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Gurbet Sayilgan, The Ur-Migrants: The Qur’anic Narratives of Adam and Eve and Their Contribution to a Constructive Islamic Theology of Migration ; 2015. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Fuad S. Naeem, Interreligious Debates, Rational Theology, and the ʿUlamaʾ in the Public Sphere: Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautvī and the Making of Modern Islam in South Asia ; 2015. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

George Archer, A Place Between Two Places: The Qur’an’s Intermediate State and the Early History of the Barzakh ; 2015. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Sara Singha, Dalit Christians and Caste Consciousness in Pakistan ; 2015. Advisor: Ariel Glucklich.

Jason M. VonWachenfeldt, Knowing the Known Unknown: Comparing the Religious Epistemologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Gendun Chopel in Response to Modernity ; 2014. Advisor: Leo Lefebure.

Laura Tomes, Reforming Religion: Sabbath Schools and the Negotiation of Modern American Jewish Education, 1873-1923 ; 2014. Advisor: Jonathan Ray.

Melanie Elizabeth Trexler, Evangelizing Arabs: Baptists and Muslims in Lebanon, 1895-2011 ; 2014. Advisor: Yvonne Haddad.

Diego Sarrio Cucarella, The Mirror of the Other: Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi’s Splendid Replies ; 2013. Advisor: Paul Heck.

Peter Leo Manseau, Untying the Holy Tongue: the Transformation of Sacred Language in American Yiddish Literature ; 2013. Advisor: Tod Linafelt.

Jerusha Tanner Lamptey, Toward a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism: the Qur’an, Feminist Theology and Religious Diversity ; 2011. Advisor: Dan Madigan.

Erika B. Seamon, The Shifting Boundaries of Religious Pluralism in America Through the Lens of Interfaith Marriage ; 2011. Advisor: Chester Gillis.

Maureen L. Walsh, ‘Because they are no more’: Memorializing Pregnancy Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism ; Advisor: Vincent J. Miller.

Scholarly Resources from Concordia Seminary

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Theses/dissertations from 1998 1998.

The Mission and Ministry to German-Speaking Lutherans in Western Canada 1879 - 1914 , Richard Kraemer

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Postliberal Approaches to the Theology of Religions: Presentation, Assessment, and Critical Appropriation , Joel Okamoto

Orality as the Key to Understanding Apostolic Proclamation in the Epistles , Thomas Winger

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

Isaiah's Damascus Oracle: Responding to International Threats , Harald Schoubye

Genre and Outline: The Key to the Literary Structure of Hebrews , Harald Tomesch

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

The Lord's Prayer-Its Interpretation and a Reassessment of an Eschatological Orientation, Favoring the Prayer's Primary Application as Being for the Present Gospel Age , David Fielding

Law and Gospel in Luther's Antinomian Disputations, with Special Reference to Faith's Use of the Law , Jeffrey Silcock

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

Marriage and the Image of God as it is Reflected in Paul's Understanding of Women and the Ministry in Four Passages: 1 Cor. 11:2-16; 14:33b-36; Eph. 5:22-33; 1 Tim. 2:11-15 , Lane Burgland

Integrity and Integration in Ecclesiastical Historiography: The Perspective of Mosheim and Neander , Paulo Buss

When God Becomes Your Enemy- The Theology of the Complaint Psalms , Ingvar Floysvik

The Missiological Significance of the Doctrine of Justification in the Lutheran Confessions , Klaus Schulz

Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993

Reading 2 Corinthians 3:4-18: An Exercise in Exegesis , Vilson Scholz

A Proposed Prolegomenon for Normative Theological Ethics with a Special Emphasis on the Usus Didacticus of God's Law , John Tape

Theses/Dissertations from 1992 1992

The Arminian Libertarian Doctrines of Freedom and Responsibility Evaluated According to Biblical-Reformed Doctrine of Sin , Carlos Heber de Campos

Theology of the Pain of God: An Analysis and Evaluation of Kazoh Kitamori's (1916- ) Work in Japanese Protestantism , Akio Hashimoto

The Bestowal of the Benefits of the Real Presence the Early Eucharistic Works of Martin Chemnitz as a Contribution Toward the Formula of Concord Article VII , Brynjulf Hoaas

Jesus and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew: A Historical Study of the Redemption Motif , Young Jin Kim

Propter Absolutionem: Holy Absolution in the Theology of Martin Luther and Philipp Jacob Spener A Comparative Study , Gerald Krispin

The Theology of Spiritual Gifts in Luther and Calvin: A Comparison , Robert Wetmore

Theses/Dissertations from 1991 1991

Mystical Aspects of Pentecostal-Charismatic Soteriology , James Breckenridge

The Home Mission Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference: A Description and Evaluation , George Gude

The ΛΟΓΟΣ-Christology in the Prologue of the Gospel of John as a Bridge Concept Between the Old Testament Shekinah Events and Johannine Christology , Chul Hae Kim

Theological Nuance in the Synoptic Nature Miracles , Mark Schuler

Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990

Presbyterian Missions to Indians in Western Canada , James Codling

The Theology of Israel's Sea Crossing , Rodger Dalman

Gadara of the Decapolis , Lee Maxwell

The "I" in the Storm: Paul's Use of the First Person Singular in Romans 7 , Michael Middendorf

Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989

The Nature and Function of the Lutheran Confessions in Twentieth Century American Lutheranism , Charles Arand

Current Models in Roman, Lutheran, and Reformed Prolegomena: Exposition, Analysis, and Programmatic Assessment , David Lumpp

Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988

The Apostolic Tradition- A Study of the Texts and Origins, and its Eucharistic Teachings with a Special Exploration of the Ethiopic Version , Eshetu Abate

A Theological Assessment of Minjung Theology, Systematically and Biblically , Yong Wha Na

Theses/Dissertations from 1987 1987

Biblical Authority in the Westminster Confession and its Twentieth Century Contextualization in the Reformed Presbyterian Testimony Of 1980 , John Delivuk

An Historical Analysis of the Doctrine of the Ministry in the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Until 1962 , John Wohlrabe

Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986

An Examination and Evaluation of A. H. Strong's Doctrine of Holy Scripture , Myron Houghton

Jesus' Teaching on "Entering the Kingdom Of Heaven" in the Gospel According to Matthew (Interpretation of Selected Matthean Texts and Parables) , Caleb Huang

Millennialism in American Lutheranism in Light of Augsburg Confession, Article XVII , Francis Monseth

Watchman Nee and the Priesthood of all Believers , Wai Man Ng

Imputatio Iustitiae Christi, Liberum Arbitrium in Renatis, and Tertius Usus Legis in Melanchthon's Later Loci , Richard Osslund

A Scriptural Stance Toward Undocumented Hispanics and Selected Methodologies for Reaching them with the Gospel , Fred Pankow

The Hermeneutics of Liberation Theology: A Lutheran Confessional Response to the Theological Methodology of Leonardo Boff , Jacob Preus

Theses/Dissertations from 1985 1985

The Hermeneutical Principles of Theodore Laetsch with a Focus on the Relationship Between the Old and the New Testaments , James Bollhagen

An Investigation of Contemporary Feminist Arguments on Paul's Teaching on the Role of Women in the Church , Hershel House Wayne

The Nature and Significance of Christ's Death as Reflected in Selected General and Pauline Epistles , Masao Shimodate

Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984

The Last Testaments of Jacob and Moses , Joel Heck

The Theological Argument of Hebrews 11 in Light of its Literary Form , Merland Miller

Dr. H. C. J. Leupold, The Man and his Work --Especially His Exegesis , David Schreiber

Theses/Dissertations from 1983 1983

Judgment and Grace in the Wilderness Narratives , Martin Buerger

The Preaching of Clovis G Chappell- A Study of the Published Sermons in Light of the Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel as Articulated by C. F. W. Walther , William Carpenter

The Conflict of Krishna and Yahweh as Warrior: A Comparison of the Conflicts of Krishna in the Puranas and of Yahweh as Warrior in the Old Testament, with Special Emphasis on the Themes of History, and Salvation, and their Relevance to Human Life , Arockiam Rajaian

A Search for the Archetype of the Greek Gospel Lectionary , Karl Rutz

Theses/Dissertations from 1982 1982

The Historical-Critical Method- Dividing Wall Between Moderates and Conservatives in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Controversy , Jose Fuliga

Uemura Masahisa (1857-1925) First Generation Pastor, Christian Leader and Instinctive Proponent of Indigenized Christianity in Japan , Addison Soltau

Theses/Dissertations from 1981 1981

Predestination: A Comparative Analysis of the Theology of A. W. Pink in Relation to the Westminster Confession of Faith , Richard Belcher

Was Jesus the Priestly Messiah A Study of the New Testament's Teaching of Jesus' Priestly Office Against the Background of Jewish Hopes for a Priestly Messiah , Jonathan Grothe

The Cosmic Christ of Colossians , Victor Raj

Theses/Dissertations from 1980 1980

The Preservation and Restoration of Creation with a Special Reference to Romans 8:18-23 , Robert Neff

Theses/Dissertations from 1979 1979

Covenant and Kingdom as Fulfilled in the Synoptics , Marvin Middendorf

A Critical and Exegetical Analysis of Exodus Twenty-Four with Special Attention to Covenant Ratification , Peter Talia

The Role of Psalm 89:6-19 in Israel's Cult , Ronald Vahl

Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978

The Doctrine of God in African Traditional Religion , Tokunboh Adeyemo

The Doctrine of the Church in the Writings of Dr. C. F. W. Walther , John Martin Drickamer

Theses/Dissertations from 1975 1975

The Passion Predictions in the Light of Hebrews 2:5-9 , E Clark Copeland

Theses/Dissertations from 1973 1973

A History of the Research of Exodus 18:1-12 with a Critical Evaluation and Suggestions for Further Progress , Andrew Chiu

The Theology of Justus Menius , Alvin H. Horst

The Return-to-Origins Motif in Pauline Theology and its Significance for a Theological Interpretation of Messianic and Millenarian Movements in Melanesia , John Gerhard Strelan

Public Doctrine in the Lutheran Church --Missouri Synod , Waldemar Wehmeier

Theses/Dissertations from 1972 1972

The History of the Attitudes within the Missouri Synod Toward Life Insurance , James W. Albers

A Study of Some Lucan Parables in the Light of Oriental Life and Poetic Style , Kenneth Ewing Bailey

The Theology of Divine Anger in the Psalms of Lament , Thomas Dixon Hanks

An Analysis of the Structure and Traditions of Zechariah 7 and 8 , John Henry Miller

The Relation of the Servant Songs to Their Contexts in Isaiah 40 to 55 , Gyoji Nabetani

Theses/Dissertations from 1971 1971

The Significance of 1 Chronicles 22, 28, 29 for the Structure and Theology of the Work of the Chronicler , Roddy L. Braun

The Pauline Understanding of "The Law of Christ" , Keith Arnold Gerberding

A Case Study in Exegetical Methodology George Stoeckhardt and Johann Philip Koehler on Ephesians , William John Hassold

A Study of the Hermeneutical Principles Involved in the Interpretation and Use of Psalm 22 in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Sources , Harvey Donald Lange

The Implications for Christology of the Idenity of the Poor Man in the Teaching of Jesus , Adrian Max Leske

A Systematic-Historical Study of the Policy of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod with Respect to Fraternal Organizations in the Past Fifty Years , George F. Lobien

Richard Taverner (1505?--1575) and the English Reformation , James Herbert Pragman

The Role of the Old Testament in High School Level Curricula of the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America, and the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 1964-1970 , Harold W. Rast

Theses/Dissertations from 1970 1970

The Diakonis Function of the Church in Hong Kong , Manfred Helmuth Berndt

The Doctrine of the Church in American Presbyterian Theology in the Mid-Nineteeth Century , David Clyde Jones

The Fear of God as Ethical Motivation in Pauline Theology , Walter A. Maier

Movements in the Church of England as Reflected in English Prose Fiction of the Eighteenth Century , William H. Traugott

Theses/Dissertations from 1969 1969

The Role of the Symbols in Australian Lutheranism , Elvin Janetzki

A Comparative Study of the Prolegomena in Karl Barth's Christliche Dogmatik of 1927 and the Kirchliche Dogmatik of 1932-1938 , Heino Olavi Kadai

Division and Reunion in the Presbyterian Church in Korea 1959-1968 , Bong Rin Ro

The Controversy Provoked by William Perkins Reformed Catholike- A Study in Protestant--Catholic Relations in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century in England , Robert E. Webber

Theses/Dissertations from 1968 1968

Relations Between the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia 1846-1965 , John Koch

The Origin and Meaning of the Axiom- Nothing has the Character of a Sacrament Outside of the Use, in Sixteenth-Century and Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Theology , Edward Peters

Jesus as the True Israel According to the Passion Narrative of Saint Mark , Roy Schroeder

Theses/Dissertations from 1967 1967

Paul's Source and Use of Tradition as Reflected in his Writings to the Corinthians , Paul Andrews

Psalms 2 and 110: A Comparison of Exegetical Methods , Herbert Hohenstein

A Study of Applications Used in the Sermons of the Concordia Pulpit of the Years 1955-1964 , Erwin Kolb

Characteristics of Southeast Asian Islam as Factors in A Theology of the Christian Mission to Philippine Muslims , Robert McAmis

Via Propria and Via Mystica in the Theology of Jean Le Charlier De Gerson , David Schmiel

Ezekiel 40-48 , Gerald White

Theses/Dissertations from 1966 1966

The Temptation of Jesus in Matthew , Paul Bretscher

The Voice in the Wilderness and the Coming One-- The Old Testament as the Link Between John the Baptist and Jesus Christ , Walter Rosin

Theses/Dissertations from 1965 1965

The Meaning of DIKAIOŌ , William Beck

Lutheran Theology in the Tranoscius with Special Attention to the Doctrine of the Church , Samuel Boda

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The Theology Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations authored by Marquette University's Theology Department doctoral students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

From Cleansed Lepers to Cleansed Hearts: The Developing Meaning of Katharizo in Luke-Acts , Pamela Shellberg

Lonergan on the Historical Causality of Christ: An Interpretation of 'The Redemption: A Supplement to De Verbo Incarnato' , John Volk

The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Question of Its Development , Vasilije Vranic

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

"Poor Maggot-Sack that I Am": The Human Body in the Theology of Martin Luther , Charles Lloyd Cortright

Intersex and Imago: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Postmodern Theological Anthropology , Megan K. DeFranza

Qoheleth: An Anti-apocalyptic Genre for a Message of Joy , Jerome Douglas

Renaming Abraham's Children: Election, Ethnicity and the Interpretation of Scripture in Romans 9 , Robert Bruce Foster

Lex Orandi, Lex Legendi: A Correlation of the Roman Canon and the Fourfold Sense of Scripture , Matthew Thomas Gerlach

The Way to God or God's Way to Us: The Theologies of Edward Farley and James McClendon in Critical Dialogue , Thomas W. Harrington

Early Christian Sex Change. The Ascetical Context of "Being Made Male" in Early Christianity , Jennifer Lynne Henery

The Trinitarian Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons , Jackson Jay Lashier

Renewing a Catholic Theology of Marriage through a Common Way of Life: Consonance with Vowed Religious Life-in-Community , Kent Lasnoski

Mercy, Justice, and Politics: John Paul II on Capital Punishment , Kevin E. Miller

The Assumption of All Humanity in Saint Hilary of Poitiers' Tractatus super Psalmos , Ellen Scully

Full, Conscious, and Active Participation: The Laity as Ecclesial Subjects in an Ecclesiology Informed by Bernard Lonergan , Mary Utzerath

The Metaphysics and Intellective Psychology in the Natural Desire for Seeing God: Henri de Lubac and Neo-Scholasticism , Christine Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Chosen Nation: Biblical Theopolitics and the Problem of American Christian Nationalism , Braden P. Anderson

The Church's Unity and Authority: Augustine's Effort to Convert the Donatists , Gavril Andreicut

Word and Faith in the Formation of Christian Existence: A Study in Gerhard Ebeling's Rejection of the Joint Declaration , Scott A. Celsor

The Noetic Paschal Anthropos: Genesis 1:27 and the Theology of the Divine Image in Early Paschal Literature , Dragos Andrei Giulea

"The People Believe That He Has Risen from the Dead": The Gospel of Peter and Early Christian Apologetics , Timothy Henderson

The Septuagintal Isaian Use of Nomos in the Lukan Presentation Narrative , Mark Walter Koehne

The Body as Symbol: Bringing Together Theories of Sex/Gender and Race for Theological Discourse , Patricia Lewis

An Ecclesiology of Charisms in the Theology of Francis A. Sullivan , Michael Anthony Novak

The Enochic Watchers' Template and the Gospel of Matthew , Amy Elizabeth Richter

Visionary Ascents of Moses in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: Apocalyptic Motifs and the Growth of Visionary Moses Tradition , Kristine Johnson Ruffatto

Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study , Travis D. Stolz

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

The Theology of the Holy Spirit According to Irenaeus of Lyons , Anthony A. Briggman

Wisdom Editing in the Book of Psalms: Vocabulary, Themes, and Structures , Steven Dunn

The Self-Donation of God: Gerhard Forde and the Question of Atonement in the Lutheran Tradition , Jack Kilcrease

Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account , Louis William Oliverio Jr.

Inverberation - The Idiom of "God Among Us:" Karl Barth's Filial-Pneumatology as the Basic Structure of Theology , Aaron T. Smith

Pentecostal Theology According to the Theologians: An Introduction to the Theological Methods of Pentecostal Systematic Theologians , Christopher Adam Stephenson

"It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us": Toward a Feminist Pneumatological Argument for Women in Ministry , Lisa P. Stephenson

Using "Chaos" in Articulating the Relationship of God and Creation in God's Creative Activity , Eric Michael Vail

Beyond Stewardship: Toward an Agapeic Environmental Ethic , Christopher J. Vena

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

John Courtney Murray, S.J., and Incarnational Humanism , Richard S. Arndt

What the Law Cannot Do: Samuel DeWitt Proctor's Theological Response to An American Crisis, 1945-1997 , Adam L. Bond

A Great High Priest Who has Passed through the Heavens: In Quest of the Apocalyptic Roots of the Epistle to the Hebrews , James M. Carlson

The Breaking of the Tablets: A Comparison of the Egyptian Execration Ritual to Exodus 32:19 and Jeremiah 19 , Michael S. Donahou

The Mother of Christ As a Symbol of Christian Unity: A Case Study for Ecumenical Dialogue , Maura E. Hearden

Re-reading Yoder in Order to Conscientiously Engage Technology through the Practices of the Church , Paul C. Heidebrecht

The Catholic Church in Dialogue with Non-Christian Faith Traditions: Engaging Jacques Dupuis's Model of Religious Pluralism with Walter Ong's Concept of Dialogic Openness in Media Society , Marinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu

"Broken Nets": Augustine, Schisms and Rejuvenating Councils in North Africa , Fortunate Ojiako

The Sources of Ecclesiastes: The "Epic of Gilgamesh" as a Source Document for Ecclesiastes , Timothy Nalin Senapatiratne

The Sources of Ecclesiastes: The Epic of Gilgamesh As a Source Document for Ecclesiastes , Timothy Nalin Senapatiratne

A More thorough Trinitarian: Reconsidering Moses Stuart's Role in the Trinitarian Debate in New England, 1819-1850 , Jeffrey A. Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Composition and Redaction in the Coptic Gospel of Mary , Ardyth L. Bass

The Angelomorphic Spirit in Early Christianity: Scripture and theology in Clement of Alexandria's Eclogae Propheticae and Adumbrationes , Bogdan G. Bucur

Roman Catholic social bioethics critiques secular bioethics: Fetal tissue research and vulnerable populations , Shawnee M Daniels-Sykes

Roman Catholic Social Bioethics Critiques Secular Bioethics: Fetal Tissue Research and Vulnerable Populations , Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes

The Role of Human Creativity in the Theological Anthropology of Centesimus Annus and Its Implications for Christian Economic Practices , Kari-Shane Davis

The Mission Theology of the Irish Holy Ghost Fathers in Igboland, 1905-1970, in the Light of the Changing Face of Mission Today: Toward a Mission Theology for the Igbo Church , Charles Achunike Ebelebe

Matthew's Vision: The Unity of the Formula Citations in Matt 1:1-4:16 , Jeremy R. Holmes

Prophetic Catholicism: Appropriating John Courtney Murray, S.J., in Postmodern America , Jennifer Laske

Encounter - call - mission: Conversion in the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar , Daniel W McGuire

The Harmony between the Right to Private Property and the Call to Solidarity in Modern Catholic Social Teaching , Constance J. Nielsen

Intersecting Narratives: The Quest for Identity in a Post-Traditional World and the Prophetic Message of Franz Kafka , Matthew T. Powell

ruah YHWH, ruah 'elohim: A case for literary and theological distinction in the Deuteronomistic History , John M Ragsdale

The Heart of Rahner: An Analysis of Karl Rahner's Theology Using Andrew Tallon's Theory of Triune Consciousness , Heidi Russell

Yahweh Will be My God "if": The Vow of Jacob and His Relationship to the God of His Fathers (Genesis 25-35) , Nathanael E. Schmiedicke

The Gate of Heaven Opens to the Trinity: The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne von Speyr , Matthew Lewis Sutton

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Dumitru Staniloae and Its Significance for Contemporary Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue , Radu Bordeianu

A Critical Assessment of Sacrament and Ethics in the Thought of Louis-Marie Chauvet , Timothy M. Brunk

Who Are the Wise? : A Critical Analysis of Film and Papal Social Teaching for Those Who Can Reclaim and Revitalize the Vision of a More Just America , Alejandro Crosthwaite

Tradition in Transformation: The Celebration of the Lord's Supper in the Reformed Church in America , Christopher Dorn

The Costly Witness of the Church: The World Council of Churches' Study on Ecclesiology and Ethics , John A. Jones

When Faith Judges History: The Anglo-American Religious and Political Experience, and Public Theology, As Missing Elements in Political and Liberation Theology , Ramón Luzárraga III

"Let Us Sing to the Lord": The Biblical Odes in the Codex Alexandrinus , James A. Miller

Nicholas of Lyra's Use of St. Thomas Aquinas' Expositio Super Iob Ad Litteram in His Postilla on Job , Troy P. Pflibsen

Rethinking Christian Salvation in the Light of Ghandi's Satyagraha , Terrence J. Rynne

The trinitarian theology of Marius Victorinus: Polemic and exegesis , John T Voelker

Modern Mormon Use of Patristic Sources to Validate the Utah-Mormon Church , Chris Welborn

The Challenge of Modern Inter-Orthodox Rapprochement and Reconciliation , Kenneth F. Yossa

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology , Ian Bell

Moses, Adam and the Glory of the Lord in Ezekiel the Tragedian: On the Roots of a Merkabah Text , Silviu N. Bunta

Catholic Theology As a Means of Evangelization: The Witness of Francis Joseph Sheed , Christopher M. Carr

Aphrahat the Persian Sage and the Temple of God: A Study of Early Syriac Theological Anthropology , Stephanie K. Skoyles Jarkins

God so Loved the World: The Experience of Salvation in the Theological Project of Edward Schillebeeckx , Michael J. Marigliano

Narrating self, Narrating Other: A Pneumatological Approach to Apophatic Anthropology , Matthew John McKinnon

The Significance of Bernard Lonergan's Work on Bias for the Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa , Cyril Orji

The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: the Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan , Deborah Savage

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Feminist-Theological Point of View , Bonnie A. Birk

A Reexamination of Nathan Scott's Literary Criticism in the Context of David Tracy's Fundamental Theology , William Donald Buhrman

Personal being: Polanyi, ontology, and Christian theology , Andrew Thomas Grosso

Solidarity in a Global Age: Bringing Forward the Vision of Populorum Progressio , Mari Rapela Heidt

The Human Son of God and the Holy Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Incarnational Spirit Christology , S. D. L. Jenkins

Job As Proto-Apocalypse: Proposing a Unifying Genre , Timothy Jay Johnson

The Private World As Alienated: Economic Justice in a Culture of Privatized Individualism , Michael D. Lopez-kaley

Acting (Economic) Persons: Adam Smith and Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II As Sources for Economic Personalism , Megan Maloney

From Patriarch to the Youth: The Metatron Tradition in 2 Enoch , Andrei A. Orlov

The Question of the Church in North American Lutheranism: Toward An Ecclesiology of the Third Article , Cheryl M. Peterson

"Truly This is the Savior of the World": Christ and Caesar in the Gospel of John , Lance Bryon Richey

The Vow of Obedience As Decision-Making in Communion: Contributions from Ecclesiology and Psychology , Judith Katherine Schaefer

The Polemical Context and Background of Hilary's Trinitarian Theology , Mark Weedman

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

The Lukan Kingship Parable: Luke 19:11-27 in Literary Perspective , Garwood P. Anderson

The Theological Ethics of Contemporary Prophetic Acts , Randall K. Bush

Incarnational Morality: The Operation of Grace and Personal Conscience in Thomas Aquinas , Virginia Kiernan Dahlberg

The Development of the Principle of the Just Wage in official Catholic Social Teaching , William Fellows

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

African Spirituality for Ecological Conversion: The Case of Mining in the Western Region of Ghana , Nana Kofi Agyapong

La Oración Contemplativa Cristiana a la Luz de la Psicología y Neurociencia: Propuesta de un Enfoque Interdisciplinar Desde la Terapia Sistemas de Familia , Manuel Santamaría Belda

The Nigerian Tiv Concept of Ya Na Angbian as a Corrective to the misinterpretation of Subdue and have Dominion in Genesis 1:26 , Christopher Terhemen Bologo

Expanding Catholic Social Teaching on Wealth, Money, and Entrepreneurship , Jean Claude Havyarimana

Life and the Renewal of the Christian Community: Infant Baptism and Inculturation in the Context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Héritier Ofabwe Kinzamba

Towards a Holistic Reconciliation in Africa , N’Guessan Kouacou Augustin Koffi

Biblical and African Proverbs as a Framework for Studying Spirituality: Exploring the Role of Proverbs Among the Gῖkữyữ People of Kenya , Patrick M. Ng'ang'a

Theological Foundations of Nonviolent Communication in the Christian Lived Experience , Edward Khoa Ngô

Cultivating Social Media Technomoral Virtues: Toward a Moral-Character Education for African Youth , Tégawindé Basile Ouedraogo

The Role of Women Religious (1882-1974) in the Work of Evangelization Among the Fijian People , John Pickering

Reading Matt 14:13-21 in the Roman Empire First-Century Context as a Counternarrative , Wossoyam Elie Yoda

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

“A New Face of Loreto”: Mission and Transformation in the Post-Vatican II Church , Sudha Arul

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Contemporary Youth Ministers in Korea , Han Hyun Bai

Dust to Dust: Ritualization of an Ongoing Relationship with the Land in Shona Christian Burial Practice , Emmanuel Banda

Chaplaincy and Expansive Spiritual Care , Brianna Deutsch

Ubuntu Ethics: A Frame for an Ethical Analysis of Environmental Migration of Unaccompanied Minors Through the Mediterranean Sea , Deogratias K. Fikiri

The Not So Minor Character in the Book of Judith Judith’s Maid in the Spotlight , Lisa Hui

Christian – Muslim Dialogue on Hospitality: A Case of Somali Refugees at the Dadaab Refugee Complex in Kenya , Oscar Angaga Nduri

The Son of Man Film as a Cry for Justice: A Cross-Cultural Convergence of Film and the African Theological Struggle for Liberation , Mark Ngwenya

Responding to "Eucharistic Deprivation" in Rural Western Nigeria: Toward an Inculturated Theology and Celebration of the Eucharist , Michael Abiodun Oluwadare

Eucharistic Communion in a Time of Pandemic: Insights From Ubuntu in an Extended African Family , Peter Linus Omondi

The Resilient Apostle: Paul’s Sufferings in 2 Corinthians Through the Lens of Resilience , Marko Pavlič

Reframing Reproductive Rights: Pope Francis’ Genius of Women as a Paradigm of Conversation Between Filipina Women and Church Leadership , Alfonso P. Suico Jr

Integral Ecological Education: Exploring Intercultural Bilingual Education for Indigenous Students in Guyana , Joel D. Thompson

Ignatian Spiritual Conversation and Digital Communication Culture , Park Soo Young Theodore

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Is Cyrus of Persia, My Shepherd, His Anointed, an Anticonqueror of Judah? Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Cyrus Oracle in Isaiah 44:24-45:13 , Ablam Atsikin

Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30): Resistance and Critique of Wealth Accumulation , Gabriel Kunonga Biatiakana

Restlessly Seeking for God: Towards an Integration of Contemplation and Practice as Proposed by Henri Nouwen for a Spirituality of Priesthood in a Contemporary Korean Church Context , Hong-Rak Chae

Jeremiah and the Conflicting Interpretations of the Exile: Religious Identity in the Context of Religious Diversity , Sijo George Chirayath

Reframing Liturgical-Pastoral Discourse: Exploring Parish Online Programs in a Time of Pandemic , James P. Ferus S.J.

The (Im)Possibility of Forgiveness: Just Peace and Reconciliation in a Culture of Sexual Violence , Ellen Jewett

Exploring the Insights of Science Within the Context of Asian Christianity Through the Work of William R. Stoeger, S.J. , Lawrence Ng Yew Kim

When Worship Becomes ‘Mission:‘ A Living Witness to the Vulnerable Santo Niño and the Broken Nazareno in Filipino Catholic Devotions , Aris Pilapil Martin

A Rereading Of Σταυρώστε Αυτον In John19:1-16: An Exegetical Study on Power and Powerlessness In Jesus’ Death Sentence from a Nigerian Praxis , Modestus Osinachi Mgbaramuko

Healing of Violence and Violence of Healing: Mark’s Hybrid Jesus in Mark 5:1-20 , Pierre Célestin Musoni S.J.

Jon Sobrino and Aloysius Pieris in Dialogue: Towards a Christological Model for Praxis of Liberation , Thang N. Nguyen

A Sacred Story to Tell: Missiological Insights for the Continued Contemporary Discussion on Inculturation Based on a Theological Investigation of Muirchú’s Vita Patricii , Sara Postlethwaite

In Search of an Integral Ecology: Engaging Liberationist Concepts and Methodology as Tools for the Construction of a Pastoral Response to the Global Environmental Crisis , Lluís Salvador Salinas Roca S.J.

Reading the Book of Daniel as a Storytelling Community’s Response to Trauma , Tae Eun Taelor Kim

A Spirituality of Struggle for Dismantling Cameroonian Tribal Hostilities. Isa 54: 11-17 as a Grounding Text , Fabrice Nazaire Kameni Tcheumaga S.J.

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Oracle Against Israel (Amos 2:6-8): In the Context of the Oracles Against The Nation (Amos 1:3--2:8) , Alfred Emeka Amos

Discovering the Role of Desire in Ignatian Spirituality for Discernment of Vocation in the Jesuit Candidate House of Vietnam , Pham Dinh Cu

A Tale of Two Stories: Defamiliarization of the Acts 6:1-7 Hellenist—Hebrew Squabble in View of Reframing the Anglophone Problem in Cameroon , Ngema Wilson Enow

Towards a Pastoral, Apologetic Approach to La Santa Muerte Devotion , Henrry Christopher Mendez Fajardo

A Fearful Warning: J.B. Metz’s Memoria Passionis in response to Western Culture’s Discomfort with Dying, Death and Grief , David R. Ford

Latin American Biblical Hermeneutics & Popular and Community Reading of the Bible: Some Inputs from Race and Ethnicity Criticism within the Hellenistic and Jewish Culture of the First Century , Diego Salazar Galvis

Education, Religious Experience, and Conversion : on Pedagogy and the Possibility of Critical Communities of Religious Praxis , Yu-Ming Stanley Goh

The Contribution of the Catholic Church to Post-Civil War Conflict Resolution in Chad , Rimasbé Dionbo Jean Claude

Rethinking Healing and Reconciliation Process in the Postgenocide Rwanda: A Response from Ignatian Spirituality , Innocent Kamanzi

De Dios Habita a Dios Labora A Mission of Caring for Our Common Home in the Ecological Crisis of India , Anthony Louis Lava S.J.

Thomas Aquinas’ Notion of Natural Theology and the Challenge of Religious Experience: The Beginnings of a Conversation , Quang Quoc Le

Jesuit Priesthood and the Ministry of Reconciliation: A Theological Examination of U.S. Jesuits in the Public Square , Alex Anthony C. Llanera S. J.

Remembering Who We Are: Liturgical Memory in the Symbolic Language of Louis-Marie Chauvet to Combat the Bifurcation of the Body of Christ , Keith A. Maczkiewicz

Embodying the Face of the Merciful God: Towards a Christological Discipleship for Vietnamese Catholics , Do Thi Tuyet Nhung Maria

Living a Good Death or Dying for a Life Well Lived: Theological Understanding and Pastoral Applications on Issues Regarding Death and Afterlife Issues Among Vietnamese-American Catholics , Tuan Ngo

The Dynamics of Conversion of Ignatius of Loyola as a Contribution to the Novice Formation in the Context of Vietnam , Tang Van Nguyen

Catholic- Buddhist Encounter at Interfaith Marriage: Strengthening Harmony and Indissolubility of Matrimony in Contemporary Vietnam , Tuan Minh Nguyen

Ecological Crisis in the Light of Laudato Si’: “Everything is Connected”: Toward Friendship as an Ecological Virtue , Toan Ninh

Re-Imagining an African Family Ecclesiology in Dialogue with Ratzinger’s Christo-Pneuma Communion Ecclesiology , Tegha Afuhwi Nji

The Catholic Church and the Zimbabwean Crisis: A Critical Reflection on the Catholic Church’s Response to the Plight of the Oppressed , Nelson Virimayi Nyamayaro

Evolution Science and Imago Dei: A Richer and More Robust Treatment of Theological Anthropology , GANSA Tchétongbé Cathérin Paterne

Reclaiming the Dynamics of Ignatian Spiritual Conversation: Towards Constructing a Spiritual Conversation Paradigm for Ongoing Apostolic Discernment in Bihar, India , Perianayagam Seluvannan

The Question of Method in Theology: An African Response to Bernard Lonergan Using Bantu Theological Anthropology , Andrew Simpasa

kāḇôḏ (Glory) rû a ḥ (Spirit) and yaḏ (Hand) Divine Presence and Activity of Ezekiel (Ezek 1-3; 8-11; 40-48) Thirdspacing the Exile and its Implications to the Theology of Divine Presence , Malachy Udochukwu Theophilus

The Mother or the Baby: Moral Implications of the Treatment Procedures of Tubal Pregnancies in the Philippines in a Catholic Perspective , Christopher P. Villa

Encountering “Joy” in the Consecrated Life in Vietnam Through Ignatian Consolation , Cuong Duy Vu

Jesus as a Healer in the Gospel of Luke: A Paradigm for Malagasy Healing , Jean Fleurys Espérence Zezikà S.J.

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Equity and Justice in health Care: A Critical Ethical Reflection on Healthcare Provision, Distribution, and Accessibility in Nigeria , Chidube Joseph Chukwu

The Virtue of Solidarity Will Save the Environment of Haiti: A Path to Heal the Crisis of Soil Erosion , Germain Clerveau S. J.

Fostering Dialogue and Engagement: The Role of the Catholic Church in Nigeria , Tony Terwase Famave

Depicting the Incarnation: Theodore the Studite and Engelbert Mveng on the Particularity and Universality of Christ , Oke Marien Robert Gbedolo

The Role of the Laity in Exercising Munus Regendi in the Church: A Theology of Co-Responsibility , Michael K. Grace KM

The Inculturation of Taiwanese Catholicism: The Yanshui Holy Spirit Church , Aloysius Ming-Te Hsu

Development-induced Displacement: An Ethical and Theological Reflection on protection of the Rights of the Adivasis of Chhotanagpur, India , Amit Roshan Lakra

Exploring the Impact of an Ethics of Disclosure on Privacy in Computer-Based Communications Technologies , Benedict Ozaveshe Mayaki

Towards A Northern Ugandan Church as "Field Hospital": For A Pastorally Attuned Appropriation of Church Teaching , James Moro

The Church and the Awakening of Faith: Towards a Christian Reconciliation for Peace and Justice in Rwanda , Emile Nsengimana

The Dynamic of Belief and Unbelief as Developed in Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment and its RThe Dynamic of Belief and Unbelief as Developed in Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment and its Relevance for Contemopary Life elevance for Contemopary Life , Santiago García Pintos

College Ethnic Catholic Communities: Ethnoreligious Pathways for an Intercultural Church , Kyle Ko Francisco Shinseki

The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults: Its Potential of Revitalizing The Basic Ecclesial Communities of Bontoc-Lagawe , Bento F. Tamang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Knowing the Transcendent God: Theological Epistemology in Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner , Ala Nadim Hanna Alalamat

Ruth: A Spiritual Role Model for the Religious Women of Southwest China , Xiaoqiong Chen

Promoting a Cosmotheandric Ethic of Virtue in Congo Brazzaville: Resolving Social Conflict Amidst Crises of Ecology and Migration , Cyrano Emde Dimeni

Marriage as a Covenant: Towards an in Culturated Pastoral Approach on Marriage and Family in Mozambique Today , Virgílio Arimateia Domingos

Eucharist as Fruit of the Earth and the Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta: Implication of Louis Mariechauvet’s Tripartite Cycle of Gift, Reception and Return Gift for an Ecological Conversion , Michael Edomobi

Towards a Contextual Christology: Sub-Saharan African Models and Songs in Dialogue with Patristic Tradition , Benedict B. Ehinack

Spiritual Conversation: An Important Tool for Discernment of One’s Vocation in the Diverse Context of India , Francis Joseph Fernandes

The Contemplative-Prophetic Spirituality of Thomas Merton: Its Relevance for the Consecrated Life in India , Fabian Jose

“The Female Face” of Hiv/Aids as an Ethical Challenge to the Catholic Church in Uganda: Lessons of Catholic Social Teaching , Athanasius Kikoba

“Pilgrimage in Service of Mission in the Context of the Contemporary Korean Church” , Min-Hwi Kim

Toward a South Sudanese Church-As-Family: Reflections for a Contextual Ecclesiology for Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace , Oscar Momanyi

Towards a New, Praxis-Oriented Missiology: Rediscovering Paulo Freire's Concept of Conscientização and Enhancing Christian Mission as Prophetic Dialogue , Rosalia Meza Moreno

Dominican Prayer for Young Vietnamese Americans , Phuong Nguyen

Embracing an Ecological Conversion: Addressing the Effects of the Ecological Crisis on the Poor and the Earth Through the Sacrament of Reconciliation , Emmanuel Oyediran Ogundipe

A Pastoral Approach to the Topic of Sexuality in Priestly Formation Programs in Parts of Eastern Europe , Vitaliy Osmolovskyy

Belief in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor, John Henry Newman, and the New Evangelization , David C. Paternostro

Impact Evaluation Under the Banner of the Cross: An Integrated Approach to the Evaluation of Poverty Alleviation Programs , Stephen M. Pitts

Towards a Renewed Theology of Personal Agency: Origen’s Theological Vision and the Challenges of Fatalism and Determinism , Bernard B. Poggi

The Synodal Church: The Significance of Pope Francis’s Ecclesiology for the Indian Church , Th Shantharaj

Virtues/Pāramitās: St. Ignatius Of Loyola and Sāntideva as Companions on the Way of Life , Tomislav Spiranec

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1. upload your final dissertation draft to proquest etd at  http://www.etdadmin.com/bu ..

Follow the prompts in ProQuest to fill in keywords and subject tags, and to make important decisions like whether to embargo your work. 

2. Use DocuSign to submit your signed approval pages electronically to the STH Library.

NEW! Please use DocuSign to submit signed approval pages electronically:   https://www.bu.edu/library/sth-dissertations-docusign . As of Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the approval pages for all STH doctoral dissertations (PhD) and thesis projects (DMin) can be signed and submitted electronically using DocuSign. Instructions are available on the DocuSign log-in page listed in the first sentence of this paragraph. 

[Please note that in the full dissertation file that you upload for ProQuest to publish, the approval pages should remain unsigned to protect your readers’ signatures from online identity theft, per ProQuest’s and BU’s policies.]

3. Submit your dissertation fee: $115.

Please submit the dissertation processing fee in the form of a check or money order for $115 (made payable to “Boston University”). This can be dropped off in person with Stacey Duran at the library or mailed to: BU School of Theology Library, re: dissertations, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for STH students to pay dissertation fees online.

4. OPTIONAL: Embargo Letter

An embargo letter is required only if you request in ProQuest ETD that your work not be displayed (in ProQuest or OpenBU) for any period of time (usually two years). This is usually done to pursue commercial publishing, although it is not always necessary. More information on embargoes can be found at BU’s main library page here : https://www.bu.edu/library/files/2011/05/EmbargoesETDFAQ.pdf. A sample embargo letter template can be found here : http://www.bu.edu/cas/files/2020/03/Embargo-Letter-Template.doc.

The embargo letter must be submitted as a physical paper with ink signatures, signed by both yourself and your advisor (no photocopies or scans.) It can be submitted to Stacey Duran, either in-person at the STH Library or via mail to: Boston University School of Theology Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215. After the first 2-year embargo, you will be able to renew your embargo (without a letter) via email or phone, for two years at a time.

For more information, please contact the STH Library thesis coordinator, Stacey Duran, at [email protected] . 

Instructions for Submitting Doctor of Ministry Thesis Projects

1. upload your final thesis project draft to  proquest etd here . , 2. use docusign to submit your signed approval pages electronically to the sth library..

NEW!   Please use DocuSign to submit signed approval pages electronically:    https://www.bu.edu/library/sth-dissertations-docusign . As of Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the approval pages for all STH doctoral dissertations (PhD) and thesis projects (DMin) can be signed and submitted electronically using DocuSign. Instructions are available on the DocuSign log-in page listed in the first sentence of this paragraph. 

[Please note that in the full dissertation file that you uploaded for ProQuest to publish, the approval pages should remain unsigned to protect your readers’ signatures from online identity theft, per ProQuest’s and BU’s policies.]

3. Submit your thesis project/dissertation fee: $115.

For the thesis project fee, you will need to mail a check or money order for $115 (made payable to “Boston University”) to: Boston University School of Theology Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for STH students to pay dissertation fees online.

4. OPTIONAL: Embargo Letters

Embargo letters are required only if you request in ProQuest ETD that your work not be displayed (in ProQuest or OpenBU) for any period of time (usually two years). This is usually done to pursue commercial publishing, although it is not always necessary. More information on embargoes can be found at BU’s main library page here : https://www.bu.edu/library/files/2011/05/EmbargoesETDFAQ.pdf. A sample embargo letter template can be found here : http://www.bu.edu/cas/files/2020/03/Embargo-Letter-Template.doc .

The embargo letter, like the approval pages, must be submitted as a physical paper with ink signatures, signed by both yourself and your advisor. It can be submitted to Stacey Duran, either in-person at the STH Library or via mail to: Boston University School of Theology Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215. After the first 2-year embargo, you will be able to renew your embargo (without a letter) via email or phone, for two years at a time.

For more information, please contact the STH Library thesis coordinator, Stacey Duran, at  [email protected] . 

How to Request an Embargo

When you upload to ProQuest, you will be prompted to respond whether you’d like to request an embargo . 

An embargo simply means that you ask ProQuest and/or OpenBU to refrain from publishing your work for a specific period of time. This embargo is possible for 2 years, and can be renewed at the end of 2 years.

Note: Most theses and dissertations do not need a publication embargo. However, some authors pursuing publication of their dissertation do request an embargo to prevent their dissertation from being shared online while they seek publication of the revised dissertation as a book.

If you choose to embargo your work, you will need to submit an embargo letter:

• The embargo letter must be signed by both yourself and your advisor. 
• Both the embargo letter and your ProQuest submission should include matching embargo periods (ie. 6 months, 1 year, 2 years).

Here is a sample embargo letter from BU’s Mugar Memorial Library: http://www.bu.edu/cas/files/2020/03/Embargo-Letter-Template.doc .

Frequently asked questions about embargoes can be found at: https://www.bu.edu/library/files/2011/05/EmbargoesETDFAQ.pdf .

For more information, please contact the STH Library thesis coordinator, Stacey Duran, at  [email protected] .

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Once your disertation has gone through the upload checklist and been accepted, it will be delivered to ProQuest. If no embargo is applied, the dissertation will be made available in both ProQuest ETD and in the OpenBU repository, usually within 1-2 months. 

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Islamic Ethical Considerations on Medical Decision-Making in Adolescence , Nuray Catic

Lighting the Way of the Learner: Towards a Social Virtue Epistemology in Aḥmad al-Ṣaghīr’s The Faqīh’s Lantern , Amani Khelifa

The Experiences of Transgender Anglicans in the Eucharistic Liturgy , Jordan D. Sandrock

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Christian Mass Movements in South India and Some of The Critical Factors that Changed the Face of Christianity in India , Philip Joseph Mathew

Exploring the Relational Center of the Individualist/Collectivist Spectrum: A Literature Survey of Direct and Indirect Perichoretic Works , Steven Latta

Women and Western Mission: A Case Study on the Christian Khasi and Garo Tribal Women , Rosemary Philip

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Notion of Evil in the Qur'an and Islamic Mystical Thought , Irfan Asghar

Personhood, Particularity, and Perichoresis: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Identity and Faith Formation , Tabitha Petrova Edgar

Monks Praise the Female Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: Hild of Whitby and Edith of Wilton , Lori Ferguson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

ʿAbdulḥalīm Abū Shuqqa’s The Liberation of Women in the Age of Revelation: A Translation and Critical Commentary , Ibtehal Noorwali

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Atheist Controversy in the United Church of Canada: A Review of Gretta Vosper , Jacob A. Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Pragmatic Holiness in the Early Salvation Army: A Theology of Holiness as Action , Terence Hale

The Spirituality of Watchman Nee from a Neo-Confucian Perspective , Jin Meng

Two Paths to Illumination in Islamic Mysticism: Self-Annihilation versus Higher Self , Mahdieh Mirmohammadi

Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Martyrial Theology in the Eucharistic Liturgies of the Anglican Church of Canada , Andrew M. Rampton

Science and Theology in Religious Education and Faith Formation with Children and Youth: Towards a Post-Foundationalist Approach , Judy S. Steers

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

'Empire without end': John Finch, Orientalism, and Early Modern Empire, 1674-1681 , Remi Alie

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Christian Kitsch: A Preliminary Examination of Christian Materialism through Theological Aesthetics and Cultural Politics , Michael A. Bodkin

Rethinking Resurrection: Choosing Interdisciplinary Dialogue Over Dualism , Jesse Dymond

The Euthanasia Debate: International Experience and Canadian Policy Proposals , Lorna M. Fratschko

The German Christians’ Influence on Barth’s Hamartiology of Pride , Tom Linden

Irruption: Placing Theology at the Centre of the Discourse on Church Amalgamation , John MacKenzie

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

New Paradigm for South Sudan: The Christian Contribution to the South African TRC , Malith J. Kur

Spirituality and Autonomous Religion in Southern Ontario: A Sociological and Theological Study , Christopher J. Medland

The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27 , Jenny Meggison

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Promise and Problematic of the Virtual Eucharist Mass According To The Roman Catholic Church’s Position in “The Church and the Internet” , Andrew W. Labenek

Political Theology Versus Public Theology: Reclaiming the Heart of Christian Mission , Martin R. Levesque

Between Mercersburg and Oxford: The Ecclesiology of John Williamson Nevin , Kevin H. Steeper

The Christian as Witness in View of the True Witness , Emily Patricia Wilton

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Torah in the Diaspora: A Comparative Study of Philo and 4 Maccabees , Christopher J. Cornthwaite

The Religion of Success: The Religious and Theological Roots of the American Success Industry of Self-Help, Personal Growth, and Wealth , Sharon M. Lindenburger

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Toward a Dialogical Hermeneutic of a Hindu-Christian: A Socio-scientific Study of Nepali Immigrants in Toronto , Surya Prasad Acharya

The Prevalence of the Magistrate in the Political Theology of Heinrich Bullinger , Brent J. Brodie

Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony , Antony N. Gremaud

The Sacramental Theology of John Owen and John Calvin , David van Eyk

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Poverty Alleviation in the Rural Areas of Kunene Region in Namibia: The Role of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) , Jeremia Ekandjo

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Missional Discipleship Within the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria , Innocent Webinumen Anthony

Empowering Laity to Engage in Pastoral Care Ministry: A Proposal for Capacity Building and Supervision for Larger Congregation with Special Reference to Kohima Ao Baptist Church, Nagaland, India. , Tsuwainla Jamir

The Social Role of Worship: A Reading of Micah 6:1-8 , Khin Win Kyi

Murmuring Met with Mercy and Grace: An Examination of the Pre-Sinai Wilderness Wanderings Traditions , Anna Rask

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

A Reinterpretation of Chin Christian Spirituality Beyond One Century in the Light Of Martin Luther's Freedom Of a Christian , Bawi Dua

New Every Morning: Epectasy as a Theology for Innovation , Joel Hinck

The Church’s Call to Minister to Refugees: A Case Study on Liberian Refugees in Minnesota , Rufus Kudee

Apostolicam Ecclesiam: Socio-Liturgical Interpretation of the Mission of the Church in the Perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist" , Sebastian Ryszard Madejski

Developing Adaptive Leaders: An Initial Intervention for Transforming a Church Culture , Molly Schroeder

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Need for Older Adults’ Ministry in the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) , Bitrus Habu Bamai

Luther's Understanding of Grace and Its Implications for Administration of the Lord's Supper in the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN) , Yelerubi Birgamus

Living the American Dream: Faith Formation and the Missio Dei Dilemma among Seventh Day Adventist African American Immigrant Families , Enock Ariga Marindi

Lakota Cultural Fusion and Revitalization of Native Christian Identity , Kelly Sherman-Conroy

The Word-of-God Conflict in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in the 20th Century , Donn Wilson

The Rupture That Remains: A Trauma-Informed Pastoral Theology , Eric Worringer

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Challenge of Being in the Minority: Palestinian Christian Theology in Light of Christian Zionism Post-1948 , Medhat S. Yoakiem

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Towards Beloved Community: Racial Reconciliation through Multiracial Missional Churches , Gray Amos Kawamba

Sanctification in Adolescence: How Karl Barth’s Two-Fold Critique of the Church Could Influence Youth Ministry Practices Today , Joel Vander Wal

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

The Absolving Word : Luther's Reformational Turn , Matthew W. McCormick

The Defiled Imago Dei and Forgiveness: The Tensions Between Ethnicity and Humanity in the Image of God in the Context of the Ethiopian Churches , Wondimu Legesse Sonessa

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Widowhood Care and Empowerment in 1 Timothy 1:3-16: A Case Study of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Christ as a Paradigm for African Instituted Churches , Millicent Yeboah Asuamah

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Understanding the Nature and Impact of Alcoholism : Implications for Ministry in Kenya , Margaret Kemunto Obaga

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An Approach to the Interpretation of the Self-Designation of Jesus: The Son of Man , Marlin Eugene Ingebretson

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Dissertation of Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 15, 1955

During his third year of doctoral work at  Boston University , Martin Luther King wrote  Crozer Theological Seminary ’s George  Davis , his former advisor, about his progress in graduate school. He disclosed that he had begun to research his dissertation and that the late Edgar  Brightman , his first mentor at Boston, and his current dissertation advisor, L. Harold  DeWolf , were both “quite impressed” with his course work. “So far, my Dissertation title is: ‘A comparison of the conception of God in the thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.’ I am finding the study quite fascinating. If there are no basic interruptions, I hope to complete it by the end of the coming summer” ( Papers  2:224 ). Davis commended King on selecting “an excellent dissertation topic” and expressed his confidence that King would “do a good piece of work with it” ( Papers  2:225 ).

King passed his final doctoral examination in February 1954, and his dissertation outline was approved by Boston University’s graduate school on 9 April, shortly before he accepted the call to pastor  Dexter Avenue Baptist Church . King’s letter of acceptance to Dexter’s congregation specified that he be “granted an allowance of time to complete my work at Boston University,” though he would be “able to fill the pulpit at least once or twice per month.” He also asked that the church cover his expenses during the completion of his dissertation, “including traveling expenses” ( Papers  2:260 ).

King chose to focus his dissertation research on  Tillich  and Wieman due to their status as influential religious thinkers and as representatives of divergent views on the nature of God. King’s comparison of Tillich’s and Wieman’s concepts of God reflected his adherence to  personalism , which proceeds from the belief that God possesses a personality and can therefore have a relationship with human beings. King’s analysis of Tillich’s and Wieman’s theological concepts as “unsatisfactory” and “inadequate as philosophical and religious world-views” followed from his belief that God was a living force, “responsive to the deepest yearnings of the human heart; this God both evokes and answers prayer” ( Papers  2:532; 533; 512 ). He found that both Wieman and Tillich rejected the conception of a personal God, which resulted in “a rejection of the rationality, goodness, and love of God in the full sense of the words. An impersonal ‘being-itself’ or ‘creative event’ cannot be rational or good, for these attributes are of personality”  ( Papers  2:506 ). In the end, King pointed out the two theologians’ views of God are not “basically sound” because they “render real religious experience impossible” ( Papers  2:532 ).

Recent scholarship by the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project of the  King Institute  has revealed that as a student at Crozer and Boston, King frequently appropriated the words of other writers without proper attribution. Volumes I and II of  The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.,  have demonstrated that while his bibliographies contained the authors and books that he drew on in his own compositions, his papers often lacked the footnotes and quotation marks that identified his use of these sources in his text. His habit of plagiarizing others’ work, intentionally or not, can be found in the various drafts of his dissertation. King borrowed from several secondary sources without proper citation, including a dissertation written by fellow Crozer student Jack Boozer for DeWolf three years earlier, and a review of Tillich’s  Systematic Theology  written by one of King’s former professors.

King’s professors did not detect this pattern in his scholarship. After King submitted the first draft of his dissertation, DeWolf filed a report observing that he had sent his specific criticisms, “most of them formal or minor,” to the candidate. DeWolf reminded King to submit an abstract of the dissertation “early” to allow proper time for revision and to clearly set forth his thesis statement ( Papers  2:333 ). That said, DeWolf projected that the finished version would be an “excellent and useful scholarly achievement” ( Papers  2:334 ). S. Paul Schilling, the dissertation’s second reader, approved the draft as well.

King turned in the final version of his dissertation by the 15 April 1955 deadline, returning to Boston for his oral defense. Graduate faculty at Boston University voted to confer the PhD on King in May 1955; however, due to financial difficulties and Coretta Scott  King ’s pregnancy, he was unable to attend graduation.

Carson et al., “Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar: A Reexamination of His Theological Writings,”  Journal of American History  78 (June 1991): 93–105.

Davis to King, 7 December 1953, in  Papers  2:225–226 .

DeWolf, First Reader’s Report, 26 February 1955, in  Papers  2:333–334 .

Introduction, in  Papers  1:49–50 .

Introduction, in  Papers  2:22–26 .

King, “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman,” 15 April 1955, in  Papers  2:339–544.

King to Davis, 1 December 1953, in  Papers  2:223–224 .

King to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 14 April 1954, in  Papers  2:260 .

King Papers Project, “The Student Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Summary Statement on Research,”  Journal of American History  78 (June 1991): 23–31.

Schilling, Second Reader’s Report, 26 February 1955, in  Papers  2:334–335 .

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CIOBANU, LILIANA,SIMONA (2013) Psychological and Spiritual Illness in the View of Modern Psychotherapy and the Philokalia: Anthropological Foundation and Comparative Study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CIRILLO, SALVATORE (2010) Joseph Smith, Mormonism and Enochic Tradition. Masters thesis, Durham University.

CLAVIER, MARK,FORBES,MORETON (2011) Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CLAYDON, JOHN,RICHARD (2013) Bound together in the liberty of Christ: Renewing Baptist collaboration in mission. UNSPECIFIED thesis, Durham University.

COCKLING, IAN,NEIL (2015) Watching Over one another in Love: Methodist Superintendents and Oversight in the Church. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COLEMAN, BENJAMIN,CHARLES (2022) Grace, Disruption and Stability: The Christian Life in the Theologies of Rowan Williams and Oliver O’Donovan. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CONDREA, VASILE,ANDREI (2012) Micah 6 : A Parallel Perspective of the Biblical Text. Masters thesis, Durham University.

CONDREA, VASILE,ANDREI (2017) Syntax of Targum Aramaic: A Text–Linguistic Reading of 1Samuel. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COOK, CHRISTOPHER,CHARLES,HOLLA (2010) The Philokalia and Mental Wellbeing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COOLING, MARGARET (2022) Preaching and the Revelatory Plot: An Alternative to the Resolution Plot in Narrative Preaching. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COUSINS, FRANCIS,COLMAN (2019) ‘Whoever seeks the Law will be filled with it’ (Ben Sira 32.15): An examination of the history of darash and its influence on the Acts of the Apostles. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COX, JOANNE,HEATHER (2012) Challenging Leadership: Mission-Shaped Presbyters in Methodist Fresh Expressions. UNSPECIFIED thesis, Durham University.

CRAWFORD, MATTHEW,ROY (2012) Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CROZIER, WILLIAM,EDWARD,ALEXANDER (2022) A Beautiful Mind: The Knowledge of Christ According to St. Bonaventure – Towards a New Reading of The Seraphic Doctor’s Thought on Faith and Reason. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CUPPI, LORENZO (2011) Long Doublets in the Septuagint of the Book of Proverbs With a history of the research on the Greek translations. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CURTIS, ANTHONY,GORDON (2019) ‘My God will be your God’- Divine Agency and the role of the outsider in the Hebrew Bible. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DAVIES, ALVIN (2015) Christian preaching of the Old Testament: A Study of Sidney Greidanus and Abraham Kuruvilla on Genesis 22. Masters thesis, Durham University.

DAVIES, RACHEL,ANNEMARIE,ULRIKE,E (2016) Yearning in the Dust: Bodily Aesthetics in the Soteriology of St. Bonaventure. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DAVIES, SARAH,FRANCES (2020) The Holy Spirit and Christian Community: A Case Study in Theology and Practice. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-ANDRADO, PABA,NIDHANI (2011) The Akedah Servant Complex: Tracing the Linkage of Genesis 22 and Isaiah 53 in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Texts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-CAVEL, FILIP,ROGER (2019) The Preacher as ‘First Listener’: ‘Calling’ as a Source of Authority within the Flemish Evangelical Preaching Tradition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-LOOIJER, GWYNNED,ANTONIA,MARIA (2013) The Qumran Paradigm: A Critical Evaluation of Some Foundational Hypotheses in the Construction of the ‘Qumran Sect’. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-MEZERAC-ZANETTI, AUDE (2011) Liturgical developments in England under Henri VIII (1534-1547). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-ROOIJ, LAURENS,DANIEL (2017) Engaging Representations The interpretation of Islam and Muslims in the News by a non-Muslim audience. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-SPAIN, BENJAMIN,ROSS (2016) Hope for the Doctrine of the Divine Ideas: A Study on the Habit of Thinking Theologically in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DEVAN, BENJAMIN,BRADFORD (2016) A Wesleyan Open Inclusivist Approach to Religious Diversity and New Atheism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DEWHURST, EMMA,CHRISTINE,JOY,BROWN (2017) Revolution in the Microcosm: Love and Virtue in the Cosmological Ethics of St Maximus the Confessor. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DIMECH, PAOLA,PAULINE (2015) THE GROUNDING OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE SAINTS: A STUDY IN HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S THEOLOGY OF THE SAINTS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DIXON, TIMOTHY,MARK (2022) Pastoral Care on Remand and the Role of the Prison Chaplain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DOMINIAK, PAUL,ANTHONY (2017) The Architecture of Participation in the Thought of Richard Hooker. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DONNELLY, COLIN,MICHAEL (2023) Evangelical Reformism in Henrician Cambridge, c. 1520-1540. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DORNYEI, ZOLTAN (2017) Progressive Creation and the Struggles of Humankind in the Bible: An Experiment in Canonical Narrative Interpretation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DOUGLAS, MARGARET,VALERIE (2016) Ascent from 'Descent': The Theological Context of Rogier van der Weyden's 'Descent from the Cross'. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DOWNEY, VICTORIA,EMMA,LOUISE (2022) The Temptation of Eve in Proba's Cento Vergilianus and Milton's Paradise Lost. Masters thesis, Durham University.

DUNSON, BEN,CLARK (2011) Individual and Community in Paul's Letter to the Romans. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DYER, JOHN,CHARLES,DICKEY (2019) The People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shaped Their Relationship with Scripture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EABORN, GARY (2022) Theology and Prayer: Ignatian Discernment as Theological Methodology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EASTWOOD, JESSICA,GRACE (2021) Transcending Fictionalism: God, Minimalism and Realism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EATON, DAVID,PAUL,OWEN (2016) Online as it is in Heaven: An Exploration of the Phenomenon of Digital Presence, Techno-Soteriology, and the Secularisation of Transcendent Being. Masters thesis, Durham University.

EDGE, TIMOTHY PETER (2020) Ordinary Theology amongst Church of England Volunteers: A Contribution to the Debate. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EDWARDS, JANE,ELIZABETH (2022) What makes a good funeral? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EDWARDS, JOEL,NIGEL,PATRICK (2019) An Exploration into Christian Engagement in Freedom of Religion or Belief. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ELMACARI-IBRAHIM, ELRAHEB,KYRILLOS (2023) The Church as the Body of Christ: An Inquiry into the Ecclesiology of Cyril of Alexandria and Yves Congar. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Embry, Bradley Jason (2005) Psalms of assurance: an analysis of the formation and function of Psalms of Solomon in Second Temple Judaism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EPSEN-III, EDWARD,JOSEPH (2017) From Laws to Liturgy: An Idealist Interpretation of the Doctrine of Creation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ESCOTT, TIMOTHY,ROBERT (2019) Faithfulness and Restoration: Towards Reading Ezra–Nehemiah as Christian Scripture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EVERETT, PAULINE (2011) A Relational Defence of Surrogate Motherhood. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FALLON, CHRISTOPHER,ANTHONY (2013) Who do we think we are? A study of the self-understandings of priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FANCOURT, GRAEME (2010) The Participative Self: An Enquiry into the merits and limits of a Theological and Postmodern Anthropology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FARRIMOND, SARAH,LUCY (2009) Ritual and Narrative in the Contemporary Anglican Wedding. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FAULKNER, ANNE (2009) THE EMERGENCE OF GENTILE LEADERSHIP AND THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE: A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE GROUP DYNAMICS OF THE PARTICIPATION OF GENTILE BELIEVERS IN THE EARLY CHURCH. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FAULKNER, SUSAN,ANN (2014) An examination of ritual and meaning in the Christian Eucharist. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

FENTON, ALLISON (2017) Meaning-Making for Mothers in the North East of England: an Ethnography of Baptism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FLETCHER, CATRIONA,ANNE (2016) Assessing and Enabling Effective Lay Ministry in Scotland: Lay Ministry and its Place in the Changing Reality of Scottish Catholicism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FOSTER, JASON,DARRELL (2014) Sursum Corda: ritual and meaning of the liturgical command in the first five centuries of the Church. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FOSTER, LUKE,RICHARD (2023) To Speak of God as Father in a World that is Inhumane: A Critical Analysis of the Christological Anthropology of Gustavo Gutiérrez. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FOULGER, WILLIAM,JOHN (2018) Present in Every Place: The Church of England and the Parish Principle. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FRAYER-GRIGGS, DANIEL,FREDERICK (2012) Saved as through Fire: The Fiery Ordeal in New Testament Eschatology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FRY, ALEX,DAVID,JAMES (2019) Gender attitudes amongst Anglo-Catholic and evangelical clergy in the Church of England: An examination of how male priests respond to women’s ordination as priests and their consecration as bishops. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FURNAL, JOSHUA,ROBERT (2013) The Catholic reception of Søren Kierkegaard: with particular reference to the writings of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Cornelio Fabro. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GEBREANANAYE, MERON,TEKLEBERHAN (2023) The Ascetic Imagination and the Reception of Early Christian Texts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GIRSCH, KATHERINE,ANNE (2015) Begotten Anew: Divine Regeneration and Identity Construction in 1 Peter. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GLOWASKY, HENRY,MICHAEL,BERGEN (2017) AUGUSTINE’S SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE IN HIS SERMONES AD POPULUM. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOGUADZE, TAMAR (2016) A Critical Study of Modern Orthodox Scholarly Criticism of Western Art. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOODRICH, JOHN,KENNETH (2010) Paul, the Oikonomos of God: Paul's Apostolic Metaphor in 1 Corinthians and its Graeco-Roman Context. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOTTSHALL, CHARLES,ANDREW (2024) Russian Sophiology and the Philosophers of Will: The Theanthropic Theology of Solovyov and Bulgakov and their Critical Appropriation of German Voluntarism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOWER, PAULETTE,ROSE-MARY,DE,GAR (2021) God and the Girlguiding Promise: A Study of the Extent to which the Spiritual Dimension of the Girlguiding Promise could Provide a Suitable Vehicle for Mission and Ministry for Churches Seeking to Engage with Local Girlguiding Units. Masters thesis, Durham University.

GRIGGS, LOWELL,ROBERT (2017) GOD THE LIFE-GIVER: 4 MACCABEES, 4 EZRA, AND PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS IN CONVERSATION ON THE GIFT OF LIFE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GRINNELL, ANDREW,DAVID (2019) Just Friendship: The Political and Societal Implications of the Practice of Relocation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GROOM, SUSAN ANNE (2016) Formation for Ordained Ministry in the Church of England with Special Reference to a Regional Training Course. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GSCHWANDTNER, CHRISTINA,M. (2012) The Role of Non-Human Creation in the Liturgical Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Tradition: Towards an Orthodox Ecological Theology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GUERTIN, FRANK,JOHN (2017) Thomas Traherne in Tradition: An Analysis of Platonist Cognition through the Writings of Plotinus, Ficino, Traherne, and Hobbes. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GYE, ADAM,GEORGE (2024) Luke, Scripture and the Partings of the Ways: A Comparative Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HAGEN, JEANETTE,MARIE (2016) Faith as Participation: An Exegetical Study of Some Key Pauline Texts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Haines, Roy Martin (1954) Bishop Bransford. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HARGITT, AIDAN,ROBERT,JOHN (2015) Alternative Episcopal Oversight and the Church of England: Historical Perspectives on Authority, Identity and the Anglican Realignment. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HARRIS, STEVE,EDWARD (2015) God Our Teacher and the Teaching of Theology: Learning from Premodern Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1-4. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HARVEY, ANGELA LOU (2012) Spiritual Reading: A Study of the Christian Practice of Reading Scripture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Häuser, Götz Ludwig (1992) Communion with Christ and Christian community in 1 Corinthians: a study of Paul's concept of Koinonia. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HAWKIN, AMY (2023) SEXUAL “SIN” AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HAYNES, ROBERT,ELLIS (2017) Consuming Mission: Towards a Theology of Short-Term Mission and Pilgrimage. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HELMER-IV, CHARLES,CHESTER (2021) The Triumph of the Always-Heard Word: A Dogmatic Inquiry into God as Hearer. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hilke, Hartmut (1993) The ideas of "predestination" and "election" in Pauline thought. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HILL, KEVIN,DOUGLAS (2015) The Development of Athanasius’s Early Pneumatology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HILL, MATTHEW,NELSON (2013) NURTURING ALTRUISM: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIOBIOLOGY FOR WESLEYAN ETHICS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HILL, WESLEY,ALLEN (2012) Paul and the Triune Identity: Rereading Paul's God-, Christ-, and Spirit-Language in Conversation with Trinitarian Theologies of Persons and Relations. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HILLS, SARAH,ANN (2015) A Theology of Restitution as Embodied Reconciliation: A Study of Restitution in a Reconciliation Process in Worcester, South Africa. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HOBDAY, PHILIP,PETER (2021) Relocating Richard Hooker - Theological Method and the Character of Anglicanism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HOCH, BRIAN,THOMAS (2010) The Year of Jubilee and Old Testament Ethics: A Test Case in Methodology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HOCKEY, KATHERINE,MAY (2016) Seeing Emotionally: An Investigation of the Role of Emotion in the Rhetorical Discourse of 1 Peter. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HOLDSWORTH, BENJAMIN,EVANS (2009) Reading Romans in Rome: A Reception of Romans in the Roman Context of Ethnicity and Faith. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HOLMES, ANDREW,DAVID (2013) To See or Not to See: Communication, Cooperation and Co-creation in the Use of Liturgical Media Art in Protestant Worship. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HOWARD, JAMIE,LEE (2020) Hope as a Journey: An Ethnographic Study of the Phenomenon of Hope as Experienced by Hindu and Christian Members of the Indian Diaspora in the Metropolitan Chicago Area. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HU, HUIPING (2009) Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HUGHES, BRIAN,CHRISTOPHER (2023) Toward a Renewed Christian Reading of Proverbs 8. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HUMANN, JOEL,RICHARD (2011) The Ceremony of the Red Heifer: Its Purpose and Function in Narrative Context. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HURLBERT, BRANDON,MICHAEL (2022) Sanctioning Sacrilege: Towards Rereading Judges as Christian Scripture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HUTCHINGS, TIMOTHY,ROGER,BENJAMIN (2010) Creating Church Online: An Ethnographic Study of Five Internet-Based Christian Communities. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

IEVINS, JOHN,FRICIS (2019) Love, Glory and Beauty in Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ILLINGWORTH, ELIZABETH,ROSE (2020) Individual Autonomy and Institutional Constraint: Structural Sin in the Church of England through the Lens of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Masters thesis, Durham University.

IRWIN, CAROLE (2021) Essential Difficulty: Faith, Secularity and Transformation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

IRWIN, LUKE,DANIEL (2022) JESUS AND THE VISIBILITY OF GOD: SIGHT AND BELIEF IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JACOB, SUSAN,SCHOLASTICA (2022) From Exile to Exile: Repatriation, Resettlement and the Contemplative Experience of English Benedictine Nuns in England 1795–1838. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JAGGS-FOWLER, ROBERT,MARK (2023) Preserving and Redeeming the Penultimate Through Healthcare: A Theological Foundation as visualised through the dual lens of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Albert Schweitzer. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JANES, HANNAH,REBECCA (2022) Locating Truth in the Search for Certainty: A Comparison of Foundationalism in Irenaeus’ Second-Century Writings and in Twenty-First-Century Evangelicalism. Masters thesis, Durham University.

JANG, JIH,LIRNG (2018) Participating in God: A Pilot Study of a Novel Intervention for Depression Based on the Spirituality of Evagrius Ponticus. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JASHI, ZURAB (2010) THEOLOGIA AND OIKONOMIA: THE SOTERIOLOGICAL GROUND OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’S TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY. Masters thesis, Durham University.

JESMONT, ROSS,JOSEPH (2022) With Sighs Too Deep for Words: Edward Schillebeeckx and the Holy Spirit. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JEW, YUN,SHERN,IAN (2017) Paul's Emotional Regime: The Social Function of Emotion in Philippians and 1 Thessalonians. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JIRTLE, JAMES,VERNON (2010) Understanding Music’s Theological Significance: A Kantian Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JOHNSON, BEN,JM (2012) A Reading of the David and Goliath Narrative in Greek and Hebrew. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JONES, KARL,RUPERT,BARKER (2012) The Theology of Christian Joy in the Works of Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680). Masters thesis, Durham University.

JONES, PATRICIA (2019) Discovering the Common Good in Practice: The Catholicity of Catholic Charities. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JONES, PAUL,HEDLEY (2016) Anonymous Prophets and Archetypal Kings: Reading 1 Kings 13. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JONES, TREVOR,PRYCE (2013) The Leadership Role of the Bishop and his Staff Team in the Formation of Strategy for Missional Ministry. UNSPECIFIED thesis, Durham University.

JOSET, TIMOTHEE,LOUIS (2022) The Priesthood of All Students? Historical, Theological and Missiological Foundations of a University Ministry: The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JUDGE, THOMAS,ANTHONY (2016) The Relationship Between the Worship of Other Gods and the Worship of Idols within the Old Testament. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JUNG, UN,CHAN (2020) A Tale of Two Churches: Distinctive Social and Economic Dynamics at Thessalonica and Corinth. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KALCHEIM, GABRIEL,LORD (2022) Faith and Justice: A Platonic Reading of Pauline Justification. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KANEEN, EDWARD,NOBLE (2017) DISCIPLESHIP IS SLAVERY: Investigating the Slavery Metaphor in the Gospel of Mark. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KANIARU, ANTONY (2012) Rethinking Rationality: Theological Anthropology in light of Profound Cognitive Impairment, Relationality, Embodiment and Personhood. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KAUTZER, BENJAMIN,ALLEN (2015) The Works of Mercy: Towards a Liturgical Ethic of the Everyday. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KEITH, ELISABETH,GRACE (2017) Vocation to Witness: Insights from a Research Study on Ordained Vocation in the Church of England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KELLY, LIAM (2021) Poverty, Peacemaking and the Sacred: A Girardian Reading of the Early Franciscan Movement. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KELLY, MORAG,PATRICIA (2016) Taking theology to work: ressourcement theology and industrial work in interwar France and Belgium. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KENNEDY, ANGELA,BELLE (2016) Community and Communication in Ancient Israelite Wisdom Texts. Masters thesis, Durham University.

KENNEY, MARIA (2016) A Historical Analysis, Critical Interpretation, and Contemporary Application of the Virtue of Temperance. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KENT, ELIZABETH,ANNE (2013) Consuming the Body: The Church and Eating Disorders. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KIM, HYUNG,TAE (2022) Newly Created Children of God: Adoption and New Creation in the Theology of Paul. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KIRK, ALEXANDER,THOMAS (2022) Agur & the Theology of Wisdom: A Philological Approach to Reading Proverbs 30 as a Coherent Text. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KNOX, JENNIFER,REBEKAH (2023) Kierkegaard and Practical Theology: Theologizing the Discipline. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KO, MING,HIM (2014) Sing for Covenantal Stability: The Worldwide Significance of the Service of Levitical Singers in the Book of Chronicles. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KOLOSOVA, ALISON,RUTH (2016) Narodnost` and Obshchechelovechnost` in 19th century Russian missionary work: N.I.Il`minskii and the Christianization of the Chuvash. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KOUTRIS, CHARIDIMOS (2017) The Presence & Authority of the Gospel-Book in the fifth-century Church Councils. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KRINGLEBOTTEN, KJETIL (2021) Liturgy, Theurgy, and Active Participation: On Theurgic Participation in God. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KWON, HYUKSANG (2016) Lifting up to Himself: John Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity and Its Implications for the Lord's Supper and Worship. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KWON, JISEONG (2015) Scribal Culture and Intertextuality: Literary and Historical Relationships between Job and Deutero-Isaiah. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LAHAIE, MYKA,SHEA,HANSON (2021) "Love,'Gift,' and the Fragmentary Self: A Theological Engagement with Jean-Luc Marion and Søren Kierkegaard. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LAI, PAK-WAH (2010) JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF EXEMPLAR PORTRAITS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LAM, SWEE,SUM (2018) Kerygmatic hermeneutics: A theology and practice of theological interpretation for The Tabernacle Church and Missions. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LANE, MARGARET,ENID (2013) THE ROLE OF INTENTIO IN AUGUSTINE’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOUL’S ASCENT TO GOD: from de animae quantitate to de trinitate. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LEE, JUSTIN,JOON (2018) Origen and the Holy Spirit. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LEESE, JENNIFER JANEEN JOHNSON (2014) Christ, New Creation, and the Cosmic Goal of Redemption: A Study of Pauline Ktisiology and Its Interpretation by Irenaeus. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LEIGH, JENNIFER (2019) Between Church and World: Anglican formation of Christian political identity. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LEIGH, SIMON,HUW (2023) Living by Rules: The Significance of Wesleyan Rules as an Enduring Facet of the Gift of Grace for the contemporary Methodist Church in Britain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LEONG, REBECCA,BEK,EE (2022) Prejudice, Sense, Middle or Madding? Towards a Christian Ethical Framework for Heterosexual Dating in Contemporary Anglo-American Contexts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LI, KWAN,HUNG,LEO (2013) VOICES BY THE SEA: A DIALOGIC READING OF THE EXODUS NARRATIVE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LIM, JAMES,CHUN,KIAT (2016) Glory as Power in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LINDRIDGE, STEPHEN,JOHN (2022) Finding faith in fresh expressions of church: Implications for evangelism from a Methodist context. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LINEBAUGH, JONATHAN,ANDREW (2011) GOD, GRACE, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS: WISDOM OF SOLOMON AND PAUL’S LETTER TO THE ROMANS IN CONVERSATION. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lofquist , Gerald A. (2019) Ricoeur and the World of the Text: Imagination, Time, and Hope in the Book of Balaam. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LOGAN, JOANNE (2018) Marriage made in heaven? The contemporary reception of Ephesians 5:21-33 among women. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LOPEZ, ERIC,LEIGH (2014) Maximus the Confessor & the Trinity - The Early Works. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LORENZ, LENA,MARIA (2023) “But in the darkness the stars make it beautiful.” An interdisciplinary study of Christian hope in the context of living with chronic pain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LUAH, JEAN,KHEE,CHIN (2023) WISE READERS AND READING WISELY: THEMES, PRACTIONERS AND EXEGESES IN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LUCAS, HANNA,JOY (2022) THE SACRAMENT OF LEARNING: RECOVERING A MYSTAGOGICAL VISION OF KNOWLEDGE AND SALVATION. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LUNN, DAVID (2015) The Gift of Creativity: An Approach to a Theology of Technology. Masters thesis, Durham University.

LUNN, JULIE,ANN (2016) ‘Simply resign’d and lost in God’: Resignation and Sanctification in the hymns of Charles Wesley. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LYNCH, THOMAS,JOHN (2014) Hegel, Political Theology and Apocalypticism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MACKRELL-HEY, LANGLEY,ADRIAN,JAMES (2016) Effective oversight of Methodist Fresh Expressions: An exploration of how fresh expressions are challenging the practice, discipline, and ecclesiology of the Methodist Church, with specific reference to the task of presbyteral oversight. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MAHER, JOHN,KIERAN (2019) Torah and Psalms: Reading Psalms 1, 19 and 119 as indicative of a torah hermeneutic in the Psalter. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MALCOLM, HANNAH,MARGARET (2023) The Significance of Things: A Theological Account of Sorrow Over Anthropogenic Loss. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MARTIN, ELENA,RITA (2009) Sanctae Famulae Dei: Towards a Reading of Augustine's Female Martyrs. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MARY, BENEDIKTUS,DENI (2020) A Promised Land that Devours Its Inhabitants. A Study on Balinese Witchcraft in a Catholic Village. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MASON, COLIN (2009) Political Theology and the Levellers: A discussion of the theological sources of the political thought of the Levellers and of some implications for modern understandings of political liberalism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MASTON, JASON (2009) DIVINE AND HUMAN AGENCY IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND PAUL: A COMPARISON OF SIRACH, HODAYOT, AND ROMANS 7–8. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MATHEW, SUSAN (2010) Women in the Greetings of Rom 16:1-16: A Study of Mutuality and Women's Ministry in the Letter to the Romans. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MATHEWS, MARK,DEWAYNE (2010) Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MCCARTNEY, CAITRIONA,MARY,SEONAID (2018) British Sunday Schools in the Era of the First World War: 1900–1939. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MCCHLERY, LYNN,MARGARET (2018) How do you know it’s God? The theology and practice of discerning a call to ministry in Church assessment conferences. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MCCOLLOUGH, DAVID,JOHN (2021) The Liminal Spirit and Early Christian Experience. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MCFARLAND, ORREY,WAYNE (2013) The God who Gives: Philo and Paul in Conversation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

McKENNEY, CULLEN (2021) Economies of Salvation: The Forms and Processes of William Langland's Theological Vision. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Melaas-Swanson, Barbara J. (1993) The life and thought of the Very Reverend Dr Isaac Milner and his contribution to the Evangelical Revival in England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MERRILL, DAVID,LOWELL (2017) Divine Allurement: Beauty in the Theological Vision of Thomas Traherne. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MIHOC, JUSTIN,ALEXANDRU (2010) The Ascension of Jesus Christ: A Critical and Exegetical Study of the Ascension in Luke-Acts and in the Jewish and Christian Contexts. Masters thesis, Durham University.

MIHOC, JUSTIN-ALEXANDRU (2015) The Inceptive Ecclesiology of Acts 1-5 and Its Reception in the Patristic Period. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Let my people go: a biblical theology of liberation in the exodus motif.

Lou Ann Smith , Liberty University Follow

Rawlings School of Divinity

Doctor of Philosophy

George Carraway

Exodus motif, Liberation Theology, Covenant, Biblical vs. Social Justice

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

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Smith, Lou Ann, "Let My People Go: A Biblical Theology of Liberation in the Exodus Motif" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects . 5382. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5382

Liberation theologians view political liberation as the central theme of the historical Exodus event due to their interpretation of the text through the perspective of the oppressed and the oppressor. I reject the postmodern stance of liberation theologians, which overemphasizes political liberation and fails to consider the links between Yahweh’s supernatural actions on behalf of the Hebrews in light of Yahweh’s covenantal obligations to Abraham’s descendants. This study argues against the use of liberation theologies as the paradigm for interpreting the historical Exodus event and asserts that a biblical theology of the Exodus motif reveals “covenant” as the interpretive key to understanding the historical Exodus event. I assert that the covenantal nature of the Israelite’s deliverance from Egypt is the basis for elucidating the theological significance of liberation throughout the canon. I contend that the historical Exodus event was built upon the framework of covenant relationship and that deliverance from captivity came about due to the pre-existing Abrahamic covenant. I argue against the contention of liberation theologians that the overarching message of liberation in the biblical text is one of deliverance from political and societal oppression. I assert that the central message of liberation, as demonstrated in the Exodus motif throughout the entirety of the canon, is spiritual and eschatological liberation. This dissertation aims to demonstrate that the Exodus event in the history of the nation of Israel serves a greater purpose than liberation from socio-political oppression. Rather than being a narrative of deliverance from slavery, this epoch-making event in Israel’s history serves as the underlying foundation of God’s salvific plan for all mankind.

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We have a range of online resources to help plan, write and finish your dissertation. Although this is aimed primarily at 3rd Year Undergraduates and Postgraduate Taught students, it contains information that can be useful to Postgraduate Research Students.

• Sage Research Methods (Library Database) Provides a range of useful tools including a Project Planner, which breaks down each stage of your research from defining your topic, reviewing the literature to summarising and writing up.
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• Components of a Dissertation (document) A useful guide to the central components of a dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Understand the core elements that should be in your dissertation --Understand the structure and progression of a strong dissertation
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• Appendices A short example of how to use and cite appendices in your dissertations, essays or projects

Check out these recordings to help you through your Dissertation writing process, from start to finish. 

• Starting Your Dissertation (Video) 46 minutes This webinar recording will help you with the early stages of planning, researching and writing your dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Understand the challenges and opportunities of writing a dissertation --Move towards refining your subject and title --Know what steps to take to progress with your dissertation
• Writing Your Dissertation (Video) 52 minutes This webinar recording will help guide you through the middle stages of writing your dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Identify the key parts of a high quality dissertation --Understand how to structure your dissertation effectively --Know how to increase the fluency and strength of your argument across an extended piece of writing 
• Finishing Your Dissertation (Video) 59 minutes This webinar recording aims to guide you through the final stages of writing your dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Identify key features that should be included in your dissertation --Know how to ensure your dissertation has a strong and cohesive structure --Proofread your work.
• Using Word to Format Long Documents (Video) 1 hour and 22 minutes A video tutorial on how to format long documents such as Essays and Dissertations using Word. By the end you should be able to: --Create a Table of Contents --Know how to insert page numbers --Be familiar with how to use the various auto-formatting and styles functions to manage longer documents

A selection of external sources that would be of particular use to 3rd Year Undergraduate students and Postgraduate students. 

Please note that the Library does not hold Undergraduate or Masters Dissertations. For information on print and online doctoral theses please see below information on University of Roehampton Thesis Collection

National thesis service provided by the British Library which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK's doctoral theses. NOTE: EthOS is currently unavailable due to ongoing issues following a serious cyber security incident at the BL (January 2024). 

EBSCO Open Dissertations is an online thesis and dissertation database with access to over 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations worldwide.

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• Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,153,410 theses and dissertations.

The university holds a selection of theses and master dissertations awarded by the University of Roehampton.

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To search for print theses and masters dissertations use UR Library Search to search for a title or topic and filter by Format > Book > Theses, Dissertation.

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Department of theology, dissertations by graduates, sara wilhelm garbers, 2022.

• Dissertation: ‘Dangerous Memories’: Sexual Violence and Trauma - Towards a Feminist Political Theological Ethics of Memory
• Placement: Senior Associate Minister at Meetinghouse Church

Jacob Torbeck, 2022

• Dissertation: Turn Not Thine Eyes: Holy Faces and Saving Gazes in Mystical and Liberation Theologies
• Placement: Lilly Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology

Yale Park, 2022

• Dissertation: Imagining An Eco-theology for Korean American Presbyterian Churches
• Placement: Associate Pastor at Huntsville Korean Presbyterian Church

Paul Adaja, 2021

• Dissertation: The Genre of a meal: The Prototypical Instantiation of the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
• Placement: Teaching Assistant at Loyola University Chicago, Priest at Catholic Diocese of Ekiti

Jonathan Hatter, 2021

• Dissertation: Slavery, the Enslaved, and the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative, Social-Scientific Study
• Placement: Graduate Instructor at Loyola University Chicago, Associate Minister at Lakeshore Christian Church

Gabriel (Jay) Catanus, 2021

• Dissertation: Uncovering a Filipino American Christian Ethics (FACE)
• Placement: Lead Pastor at Garden City Covenant Church, Director of the Filipino American Ministry Initiative and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethic at Fuller Theological Seminary

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The University of Dallas offers  the Master of Arts in Theology and the Master of Theology. The MA and MTh in theology at the University of Dallas explores the masters of the Catholic Tradition with intellectual rigor and enthusiastic orthodoxy. Students plumb the depths of Scripture, trace dogmatic and theological developments, and explore the true path to virtue, holiness and happiness with God

Master of Arts in Theology: 30 credit hours 

Coursework: 24 credit hours A maximum of twelve credits may be earned in 5000 level courses. Six credits may be transferred, with the recommendation of the Chairman, from a graduate institution toward the graduate credits.

Thesis & thesis seminar: 6 credit hours The thesis requirement comprises 6 credit hours.

F oreign language requirement A reading knowledge of a classical or modern language is required. In addition to Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, the University offers Biblical Hebrew, a language especially appropriate for students who have a particular interest in the study of Scripture.

Comprehensive exam The comprehensive exam has written and oral components.  

Master of Theology: 30 credit hours 

Coursework: 30 credit hours  A maximum of twelve credits may be earned in 5000 level courses. Six credits may be transferred, with the recommendation of the Chairman, from a graduate institution toward the graduate credits.

Comprehensive exam The comprehensive exam has written and oral components. 

Additional Stipulations Some background in philosophy in the case of the M.Th. applicants and a minimum of nine undergraduate credits in philosophy for the M.A. applicants is required. These requirements may be waived if the applicant demonstrates competency in philosophy.

A sufficiently strong background in theology, preferably an undergraduate theology major, is required. Each applicant's background will be individually evaluated, and in case of deficiency, students will be required to enroll either in appropriate courses or in directed individual study to obtain a foundation in theology.   If you have any questions about these programs and wish to contact Theology faculty themselves, please email the chairman of the Department of Theology, Dr. Christopher J. Malloy at [email protected] . He will answer your questions and/or put you in touch with other professors.

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• M.A., Comparative Studies in Religion, Claremont School of Theology
• B.A., Music Performance, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Jess Navarette works in Comparative Theology and Comparative Religion, particularly between the Hindu and Christian traditions. His current research focuses on theological resonances between Vaishnava Bhakti practices and those found within the realm of Christianity. Further specialty includes 20th Century Hinduism, North American Hinduism, and work with Hindi and Sanskrit as research languages.

Jess is also engaged in interreligious dialogue and interfaith events, academically and within local communities. Jess works with the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium as an event coordinator and facilitator for the Interreligious Leadership Certification program and has been a community interfaith organizer for many years.

Jess also has nearly a decade of experience as an educator in public and private schools in California. Further fields of interest include: hybrid religious belonging, spirituality and mysticism, contemplative practices, music and religion, theopoetics, new religious movements, and religious pluralism.  

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"Theistic Meditation Techniques from the Hindu Tradition," Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2023).

"Yoga in a Global-Religious Context," Prem Yoga Certification Training; online (2023) and in-person at the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas, TX (2021).

"Interfaith Music Night," Grace Episcopal Church, Newton, MA (2023).  Secured grant funding, designed the programming, and performed alongside members of the Won Buddhist Temple of Boston, ISKCON Boston, and various Christian representatives.

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“Holy Humanity: A Theopoetic Response to Suffering,"  New Horizons , 6, no. 2 (2021).

“Jainism: Tools for Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Dialogue,”  Transactions  5, no. 4 (October–December 2021).

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Doctoral thesis on diaconal work in in times of new societal challenges.

D.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.), M.Th.  Lise-Lotte Hellöre’s doctoral thesis in Practical Theology will be put forth for public defence at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University.

The thesis is entitled I det fördolda. Om diakoni och värdeskapande i brytningstider.

The public defence of the doctoral thesis takes place on 26 April 2024 at 1.15 PM at Teologiska annexet, Theologicum, Piispankatu 16, Turku. Associate Professor Jakob Egeris Thorsen , Aarhus University, Denmark, will serve as opponent and Professor Cecilia Nahnfeldt , Åbo Akademi University, as custos. You can also follow the defence online.

This study examines how diaconal work in the Porvoo diocese creates value. Special focus is on the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and on domestic violence. Questions asked are how diaconal workers in the diocese perceive their work, what value it creates and how diaconal work can be developed in times of new societal challenges. Although diaconia is local by characteristic, the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and domestic violence are present across the geographical area.

The research is based on a survey (in 2019) of all diaconal workers in the diocese, of which there are about one hundred, and on 22 interviews (in 2021). This material is analysed partly with perspectives from management and marketing.

Results show that the idea of helping where the need is greatest and where no one else helps is problematic. Diaconia as it is organized today seems to be most suitable for regular challenges in people’s lives, where diaconal workers make a large difference. At the same time, my results show the potential and need for flexibility within diaconal work, also from foremen. This, in turn, can lead to new potential for the deaconry, which the Covid-19 crisis proved. One of these new areas of development, I believe, is in cooperation with shelters for victims of domestic violence. Such cooperation is largely underdeveloped in most of the diocese. The study suggests this would provide great possibility for value creation for society, the individual and the church alike.

Lise-Lotte Hellöre was born in Jakobstad in 1975. She can be reached by email lise-lotte.hellore@abo.fi .

The doctoral thesis can be read online through the Doria publication archive.

Click here for a press photo of the doctoral student. Photographer is Timo Jakonen.

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Professor Tracey Rowland and Archbishop Timothy Broglio to be Honored at 2024 Commencement Ceremonies

Apr 18, 2024

Professor Tracey Rowland, the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology for the University of Notre Dame Australia, and Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services will be honored during Christendom College’s 2024 Commencement Ceremonies this upcoming May 10-12 on Christendom’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus. Rowland will deliver this year’s Commencement Address and be given an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, while Archbishop Broglio will be awarded the college’s Pro Deo et Patria Award for Service to God and Country. Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington will also celebrate the college’s Baccalaureate Mass for graduates and their families.

Rowland hails from Australia, where she earned her primary degrees in law and government from the University of Queensland before completing a Bachelor of Letters in philosophy and a Master of Arts in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She later won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Cambridge University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation. In 2001, she was appointed as Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, a position she held until 2017. While holding this position, Rowland completed a Licentiate in Sacred Theology and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology, both from the Lateran.

Rowland is also the author of many books, including Culture and the Thomist Tradition (London: Routledge, 2003), Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Benedict XVI (Oxford University Press, 2008), Benedict XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Bloomsbury, 2010), Catholic Theology (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), The Culture of the Incarnation: Essays in Catholic Theology (Steubenville: Emmaus Academic, 2017), Portraits of Spiritual Nobility (New York: Angelico, 2019), and more.

She was appointed to the 9th International Theological Commission in 2014 and has been honored with numerous awards, including the Archbishop Michael J. Miller Award for the Promotion of Faith and Culture, the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Ratzinger Prize for theology. In 2023, she was appointed to the Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences.

Archbishop Broglio was born in Ohio, attending Catholic schools in Cleveland growing up. Later, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in classics from Boston College, along with an S.T.B. in theology and a Doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Cleveland in 1977, serving as an associate pastor shortly after while lecturing in theology at Notre Dame College. From 1979 to 1983, he also attended the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.

Following his time at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Archbishop Broglio served as Secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Asuncion, Paraguay. From 1990 to 2001, Archbishop Broglio served as Chief of Cabinet to Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Secretary of State to Pope St. John Paul II, and desk officer for Central America.

In February 2001, Archbishop Broglio was named Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic and Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico. The Archbishop was ordained as an Archbishop by His Holiness St. John Paul II on March 19, 2001. On November 19, 2007, Archbishop Broglio was named the fourth Archbishop of the Military Services.

Archbishop Broglio is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and currently serves as President of the Conference. He is a Trustee and the Chancellor of Catholic Distance University, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Catholic University of America, and is Chairman of the Communications Committee for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Christendom has been honored to welcome distinguished guests to its Commencement Ceremonies in years past, including   Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ,   Gerhard Cardinal Muller ,   Lou Holtz ,   Patrick Madrid ,   Alice von Hildebrand ,   Senator Rick Santorum ,   Robert Cardinal Sarah , and others.

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BAD FAITH screened at theology conference

A new documentary about Christian nationalism was featured at the Yale Public Theology and Public Policy Conference on Monday.

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Courtesy of Franklin Golden

Students, faculty and religious leaders gathered at the Omni New Haven Hotel on April 8 at 7 p.m. to learn about the dangers of Christian nationalism through a visual medium — film. 

The Yale Public Theology and Public Policy Conference took place from April 7 to 9 and was centered around the question, “What Are the Moral & Spiritual Issues Facing Our Democracy in the 2024 Presidential Election?” One such answer came in the form of “BAD FAITH,”  a documentary about the growth of Christian nationalism in the United States. Directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones, the film heavily featured the Rev. William Barber, founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at the Yale Divinity School.

“We interviewed people who wrote books and conducted extensive research,” Uljak said of the process. “And we also went online and found clips of Christian nationalists and evangelicals and what they were saying.”

Engaging with religious leaders, journalists, legislators and activists, the documentary’s team began piecing together the origins and subsequent spread of Christian nationalism. Uljak said that included insights about the influence of major conservative organizations and their campaign of disinformation.

According to Anne Nelson ’76 — an author, journalist and lecturer at Columbia who specializes in international affairs, media and human rights — the collapse of local newspapers has also contributed to the loss of access to fact-based journalism. Mentioning the takeover of many local television stations by media groups Fox News and Sinclair, she attributed the spread of disingenuous rhetoric to this replacement of regional media organizations with national, agenda-driven outlets.

Nelson is the author of Shadow Network, a book about fundamentalist organizations like the Council for National Policy, but she said film as a medium is particularly effective in articulating the harms of Christian nationalism. Lauding the film’s use of archival footage, she said it was thrilling to see visuals about the topics she has spent so much time researching and delving into. Noting audience reactions to the film, she emphasized that the use of found footage is particularly moving. 

“When those scenes show up, it’s almost like they [the viewers] stop breathing,” Nelson said. “That’s the power of documentary.”

The film, which had its theatrical release on March 29 in Los Angeles, has been screened at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and New York’s Cinema Village. With screenings at conferences like this week’s, Ujlaki said he hopes to educate communities across the country about the threat Christian nationalism poses to American democracy.

Both Ujlaki and Nelson expressed their goal of galvanizing young people. Ujlaki teaches at Loyola Marymount University, where he said most of his students are not fully aware of the threat posed by Christian nationalists.

Avery Lenihan ’27, a first-year from Kentucky, said that documentaries like Ujlaki’s are especially important for students at Yale and other elite universities.

“People from the backgrounds that Yale disproportionately draws from can often struggle to understand how deeply woven Christianity is into the fabric of many rural communities,” she said. “Because geographic barriers prevent many from ever visiting these spaces, documentaries serve a key role in bridging the cultural divide.”

Noting that in many regions across the United States, the Church serves as a primary community center, Lenihan added that Christianity is a source of hope for many white Americans who feel economically disenfranchised. Many of the churches they attend are susceptible to exploitation by far-right organizations, which Ujluk said are often targeted by large conservative organizations. 

For Nelson, Christian nationalism is dangerous to the freedoms of the American people. Echoing her concerns, Ujlaki urged active engagement from all sectors of society to counter the spread of misinformation and defend the principles of democracy.

“Change depends on journalists and universities to help spread the word about what’s at stake,” he concluded.

“BAD FAITH” will be available for streaming on April 26.

Correction, April 13: A previous version of this article incorrectly spelled director Stephen Ujlaki’s name and gave the wrong graduation year for Avery Lenihan. The article has been corrected with these changes.