Browsing by Subject "Biblical studies"
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A REPRESENTATIVE OUTSIDER AND THE INCLUSION OF THE OUTSIDER IN ACTS 8:26-40
(2016)In Luke’s two volumes, Luke is not interested only in Gentiles and those with high social status but also in the marginalized and those who are outsiders. This dissertation seeks to read Luke’s concern for outsiders and ... -
A Restorative Model: Jeremiah's Prophetic Response to Displacement in Washington, D.C.
(2022)ABSTRACTThis thesis is offers exilic texts as the basis for restoration for communities traumatized by displacement. The scriptural focus for the thesis is Jeremiah 30-33, the Book of Restoration. The purpose of the thesis ... -
A Storied God, A Storied People: A Strategy for the Local Church to Practice the Narrative Nature of Scripture by Adhesion to a Particular Story
(2023)This thesis aims to develop a narrative strategy for the local church parish, drawing on postliberal and narrative theologies. It argues that the narrative nature of the incarnation is not only descriptive of God's movement ... -
Acts and the Lukan Christology of Universal Witness
(2019)This dissertation argues that, for Luke, universal witness belongs within a broader claim about the identity of Israel’s Messiah. Framed by Luke 24:46-48 (and Acts 26:22-23), the book of Acts narratively construes the unfolding ... -
Banished from the City: The Exilic Ecclesiology of Luke-Acts
(2023)This dissertation examines those scenes in Acts where members of the church are banished, exiled, or displaced from the city, such as Acts 8:1, 13:50, and 16:35-39. It argues that Luke-Acts presents the church as a community ... -
Becoming the Baptized Body: Disability, Baptism, and the Practice of Christian Community
(2019)This dissertation takes up questions of how theologies and practices of baptism shape visions of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and a participant in Christian ecclesial communities. In particular, the dissertation ... -
Convincing the World: Pentecostal Liminality as Participation in the Mission of the Paraclete
(2013)Did the early Pentecostals regard themselves as servants to the wider church, bearers of the gifts of the Spirit, sent to bring a renewed focus on love, unity, holiness, and justice to all parts of the church? Or did they ... -
Filling Up the Word: The Fulfillment Citations in Matthew’s Gospel
(2017)It is often assumed, occasionally argued, that when Matthew writes, in his ten “fulfillment citations” (FCs), that Scripture was “fulfilled,” he means that the occurrence of certain events “verify” scriptural “predictions.” ... -
Fumbling With Love: The First Step Toward Cultivating A Beloved Community A Bible Study Addressing Four Psychological Barriers to Racial Reconciliation
(2022)This thesis explores some key reasons why it is often very difficult for Christians to love “racially” different Christians. Examining over eighty years of neuroscience and psychological research reveals key understandings ... -
History and Hope: The Agrarian Wisdom of Isaiah 28–35
(2017)Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, modern historical-critical study of the book of Isaiah succeeded in showing that the text emerged in stages over perhaps three hundred years, rather than as the fully formed ... -
In Slavery With God's Children: The Law as Enslaved Agent in Galatians
(2022)This dissertation focuses on three metaphors in Galatians 3:19-4:31 that cast the Law as enslaved: the Law is an enslaved παιδαγωγός (3:19-25), an enslaved ἐπίτροπος and οἰκονόμος (4:1-11), and Hagar the enslaved παιδίσκη ... -
Jesus Among Luke’s Marginalized
(2017)Many first-century Jewish leaders considered the marginalized outside the reach of God’s mercy. But Jesus seemed to challenge this social and religious value. This study explores the paths to restoration for society’s outcasts ... -
John Howard Yoder on Christian Nonviolence and the Haustafeln
(2012)One of the focuses of John Howard Yoder's theology is Christian nonviolence. From the teaching and example of Jesus, who dealt with the evil in the world and defeated it through obedience to the will of God to the point ... -
Knowing The Way: Scriptural Imagination and the Acts of the Apostles
(2016)In this dissertation, I offer a pedagogical proposal for learning the Christian Scriptures guided by respect for the nature of the reader and the integrity of the biblical text. Christian educators have profitably developed ... -
Liberation in the Midst of Futility and Destruction: Romans 8:19-22 and the Christian Vocation of Nourishing Life
(2014)In an era of ecological upheaval that has led some scientists to declare that human activity has inaugurated a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, the apocalyptic theology of the Apostle Paul speaks a timely word of ... -
Lord, Teach Us How to Grieve: Jesus' Laments and Christian Hope
(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 the ... -
Luke, the Jews, and the Politics of Early Christian Identity
(2018)This dissertation explores the nature of early Christian identity in relation to non-Christian Jewish alterity as these are portrayed in the Gospel of Luke. Recent study of the relationships among Jews and Christians in ... -
Mother Jesus: The Contribution of Maternal Imagery to the Soteriology and Christology of First Peter
(2021)First Peter uses the metaphor of new birth as a way to communicate what happens when someone becomes Christian. While I am not the first to suggest that in this extended new birth metaphor Christ is presented as the nascent ... -
Mystery and the Making of a Christian Historical Consciousness: From Paul to the Second Century
(2014)On the most general, theological level this dissertation explores the origins, ensuing articulations, and intellectual implications of what has been characterized as a new Christian "political-historical consciousness" ...
