Browsing by Subject "Christology"
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A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(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 Work of Love: Horace Underwood and the Formation of White Korean Christianity
(2018)Christianity in South Korea has long been touted the one success story in Asia, dubbed the “Korean miracle,” whose traction and trajectory of explosive growth are unanimously traced back to the Protestant missionaries who ... -
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 ... -
Aphrahat's Christology. A Contextual Reading
(2010)The present study represents an attempt at reading the views on Christ of fourth-century Syriac writer Aphrahat, author of 23 <italic>Demonstrations</italic>, within the context of coeval developments in Christian thought, ... -
Communion of Incorruption: A Theology of Icons and Relics
(2020)This dissertation contributes to contemporary scholarship on the historical and theological significance of Christian iconodulia—the appropriate veneration of holy persons, places, and things. By accentuating the economic ... -
Communion of Incorruption: A Theology of Icons and Relics
(2020)This dissertation contributes to contemporary scholarship on the historical and theological significance of Christian iconodulia—the appropriate veneration of holy persons, places, and things. By accentuating the economic ... -
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 ... -
The Father and the Son: Matthew's Theological Grammar
(2014)To say that the first Gospel is about Jesus is to state what any reader knows from the most cursory glance at Matthew's narrative. Yet the scholarly discourse about Jesus' identity in Matthew reveals a fundamental confusion ... -
The Fullness of Time: Christological Interventions into Scientific Modernity
(2018)As a work of Christian dogmatic theology, this dissertation proceeds from the primary theological claim that human existence in time is determined by the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. ... -
The Gospel of John and the Future of Israel
(2017)The canonical gospels are each concerned to present the significance of Jesus vis-à-vis the Jewish tradition. Yet the Gospel of John exhibits a particularly strained relationship with Judaism, especially through its frequent ... -
We the People: Israel and the catholicity of Jesus
(2012)With the rise of the modern nation-state in recent centuries, "the people" has emerged as the most determinative concept of human community, the decisive imaginary for negotiating and producing human difference. It has become ...
