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Towards a Reconciling Church in South Africa
(2017)This paper seeks to locate the church as a role player in the ongoing discussion around reconciliation within the South African context. Seeing as reconciliation is understood and applied in different ways by different ... -
The Future of Christian Identity in the Episcopal Church
(2017)Recent surveys show that the number of Americans who claim no affiliation with a church body has doubled in the last decade. In addition to the unaffiliated, those who are affiliated with a church body are spending less ... -
"Whatever Happened to Grace?: Reclaiming Grace in the 21st Century Church"
(2017)Membership in white mainline Protestant churches in the United States has declined over the past fifty years, particularly in recent years as an increasing number of people choose to define themselves as “nones” (meaning ... -
Probing LAUDATO SI' For a New Spirituality in a Technocratic Culture
(2017)Pope Francis’ 2015 social encyclical Laudato si’ provides a challenging, helpful, and timely lens through which to view this cultural moment. By analyzing the reception of this encyclical, its structure and sources, and ... -
Karl Barth and the Beauty of God
(2017)ABSTRACTThis dissertation examines the theme of beauty in the theology of Karl Barth and explores its fruitfulness for the practice of theology and two key areas of the Christian life. It offers a close, contextual reading ... -
Reading Scripture in the Wake of Christ: the Church as a Hermeneutical Space
(2017)In this dissertation I offer a constructive account of the church’s role in the process of reading and understanding Scripture. This task has become especially relevant due to the recent popularity of “ecclesial hermeneutics.” ... -
Word and Witness: A Theological Account of the Life and Voice of Mercy Amba Oduyoye
(2017)Theology is dense and multifaceted. It is a dense foray into questions of faith and praxis; it merges multiple interpretations of spiritual wisdom with human expression and action. It holds the progression of relational ... -
The Rationale for and Guide to Using Hip-Hop Music as A Vehicle to Spiritual Formation for Black Male Youth
(2017)This thesis provides a hip-hop based curriculum that the black church can use to engage young black men in spiritual formation. Due to the negative lyrics heard in hip-hop music, many churches have rejected this style of ... -
The History of Interpretation of Karl Barth’s Ecclesiology from 1927 to 2015
(2016)This dissertation investigates the interpretation of Karl Barth’s ecclesiology from 1927 through 2015. The history of interpretation of Karl Barth’s ecclesiology has never been attempted in such a comprehensive way as what ... -
Let the Community Say, "Amen": 2020 Vision for Christian Community Development in Northeast Central Durham, NC
(2016)AbstractChristian community development (CCD) practitioners are a growing body of contemporary Christian servant-leaders, who are committed to building beloved community in neighborhoods labeled as “under-resourced” across ... -
Facing Our Flesh: A Theological Analysis of Body Formation in Lent and Easter
(2016)In this dissertation, I develop a theological account of human embodiment by exploring the relationship between the liturgical practices of an Episcopal parish during Lent and Easter and church members’ bodies. My objective ... -
Christ the Mediator and the Idol of Whiteness: Christological Anthropology in T. F. Torrance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Willie Jennings
(2016)This dissertation asks how the theological anthropologies of T. F. Torrance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Willie Jennings help Christians diagnose and subvert the idolatry of our current racial imagination. It concludes that ... -
Who's Minding the Story? The United Church of Canada Meets A Secular Age
(2016)In the tumultuous 1960s, under the pressure of significant cultural forces, the United Church of Canada made a pivot from a stance of trying to influence, change, or direct the culture of the society around it to a stance ... -
The Hope of Traditioned Innovation
(2016)ABSTRACT Churches and Christian institutions today face unique challenges in light of the deep trends found throughout their ecology. Complexity and wicked problems have the opportunity to prevail as the deep trends, such ... -
The Implications of Harry Emerson Fosdick’s Life-Situation Preaching for African-American Preachers
(2016)This study discusses the strengths, weaknesses, and implications of the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick’s life-situation preaching for young preachers in mainline churches in general and African-Americans in particular. ... -
Coming Home: A Historical Assessment of Private Domestic Space as the Primary Locus of Christian Hospitality
(2016)Coming Home: A Historical Assessment of Private Domestic Space as the Primary Locus of Christian HospitalityABSTRACT Subject ... -
Embodied Prayer: the practice of prayer as Christian theology
(2016)This dissertation attempts to retrieve the integration of prayer and theology in the life of the church. Prayer is a spiritual and bodily theological activity that forms Christian identity and virtuous character. The bodily ... -
In Whose Image: The Emergence, Development, and Challenge of African-American Evangelicalism
(2016)The current era of American Christianity marks the transition from a Western, white-dominated U.S. Evangelicalism to an ethnically diverse demographic for evangelicalism. Despite this increasing diversity, U.S. Evangelicalism ... -
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 ... -
Infused: Millennials and the Future of the Black Church
(2016)Deep societal trends impact the religious fervency and participation of millennials in the Black Church. Many young adults, though remaining Christian, have fallen away from their faith communities, finding them irrelevant ...
