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Dispensational Modernism

Pietsch, Brendan (2011)

This dissertation begins with questions about the epistemic methods that late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American Protestants used to create confidence in new religious ideas, and particularly the role of ...
Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization of Biblical Exegesis

Fink, David C. (2010)

This dissertation lays the groundwork for a reevaluation of early Protestant understandings of salvation in the sixteenth century by tracing the emergence of the confessional formulation of the doctrine of justification ...
The Doctrine of Man and Grace as Held by the Reverend John Flavel

Farrell, Earl T. (1949-05-12)

In this paper I propose to set forth the conception of man as held by John Flavel, the 17th century Puritan divine. The greater portion of the material presented here was taken from his, "Treatise on the Soul of Man," and ...
Eucharist and Anthropology: Seeking Convergence on Eucharistic Sacrifice Between Catholics and Methodists

Sours, Stephen (2011)

Eucharistic sacrifice is both a doctrine of the church and a sacramental practice. Doctrinally, it explains in what manner the sacrament is a sacrifice, or at least its sacrificial dimension; liturgically, it refers ...
Figural Reading in the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Dialogue with Augustine and Calvin

Lee, Gregory Woodae (2010)

This exercise in constructive Christian theology presents the relation between the testaments as a critical problematic for the figural reading of the Old Testament. The project consists of two parts, the first focusing ...
For God Did Not Give Us a Spirit of Timidity, but of Power: Women Seminarians’ Struggles to Claim Authority and Giftedness

Palmberg, Christa Mazzone (2009-05-29)

One of the primary motivating factors of this project was my sense that many women seminarians quickly forget the “gift of God” that is within them shortly after their arrival at Duke Divinity School. The strong sense of ...
From Fratricide to Forgiveness: the Ethics of Anger in Genesis

Schlimm, Matthew Richard (2008-12-05)

In the first book of the Bible, every patriarch and many of the matriarchs have significant encounters with anger. However, scholarship has largely ignored how Genesis treats this emotion, particularly how Genesis ...
Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity

Thiessen, Matthew (2010)

In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in ...
Leaning Both Ways at Once: Methodist Evangelistic Mission at the Intersection of Church and World

Conklin-Miller, Jeffrey Alan (2012)

This dissertation suggests that a Methodist theology of evangelistic mission requires placement within an account of ecclesiology and the theological distinction of Church and world. It argues for a vision of the Church ...
The Limits of Wisdom and the Dialectic of Desire

Knauert, David Cromwell (2009)

It is fair to identify the motive of this dissertation with the paradoxical formulation of Gerhard von Rad, to the effect that the essence of biblical Wisdom is disclosed where the sages articulate this wisdom as ...
Lord, Teach Us How to Grieve: Jesus' Laments and Christian Hope

Eklund, Rebekah Ann (2012)

This dissertation studies the role and function of lament in the New Testament. It addresses the problem that lament does not seem to be a pervasive feature of the New Testament, particularly when viewed in relation to ...
Medicating the Eschatological Body: Psychiatric Technology for Christian Wayfarers

Kinghorn, Warren Anderson (2011)

Biological psychiatry, the mode of psychiatric practice dedicated to the effective application of medication and other somatic technology in the treatment of mental disorders, is an increasingly powerful conceptual lens ...
Methodism in Microcosm: Methodist History in Caswell County, North Carolina, 1780-1905

Hunter, Martin Park (2008-11-20)

This paper surveys the development of Methodist frontier societies in Caswell County, North Carolina, into modern institutional churches during their first 125 years.Caswell Methodism proves to be a useful microcosm of ...
Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship and Interracial Existence

Bantum, Brian Keith (2009)

To exist racially "in-between," has been characterized as a tragic existence in the modern world. The loneliness and isolation of these lives have given rise to the term the "tragic mulatto." The dissertation Mulatto ...
A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Moffitt, David McCheyne (2010)

The New Testament book known as the epistle to the Hebrews contains little obvious reference to Jesus' resurrection. Modern interpreters generally account for this relative silence by noting that the author's soteriological ...
A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder

Collier, Charles Mayo (2008-12-10)

The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on ...
Out of the Pew and into the Pulpit: Empowering Women Clergy to Proclaim the Gospel in the 21st Century

Olson, Heather (2010-06-07)

Since the 1950s, women have made significant strides toward gender equality in the workplace. However, they often encounter greater resistance when entering into leadership roles, both in becoming a leader in the first ...
The Perfect Hope: More Than We Can Ask or Imagine

Adam, Margaret Bamforth (2011)

As Christians in the United States struggle to sustain hope in the face of global economic, environmental, military, and poverty crises, the most popular source of theological hope for preachers and congregations is ...
Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness

Whitfield, Joshua Jair (2008-06-05)

Martyrdom, as an explicitly christological witness, offers limited but vital description within the various and unpredictable arenas of living, suffering and death. That is, martyrdom is not the tragic conclusion of some ...
Powerful Practices: Paul's Principalities and Powers Revisited

Moses, Robert Ewusie (2012)

The concept of principalities and powers is crucial for understanding Paul's theology and ethics, since for Paul the powers pervade all aspects of existence. We contend that Paul's conception of the powers is unintelligible ...