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Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Construction of Communal Identity
(2008-06-25)Genesis is central to both hegemonic and counterhegemonic conceptions of communal identity. Read one way, the book undergirds contemporary assumptions about the nature of communality and the categories through which it is ... -
BEYOND SACRED MARRIAGE: A PROPOSED NEW READING OF “BIRTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND GRACIOUS GODS” (KTU 1.23)
(2011-12-18)This thesis proposes a reading that establishes a coherent relationship between the sexual content and the other parts of the ritual and myth. Specifically, I argue KTU 1.23 is an invocation to avert death on two levels: ... -
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
(2010)This dissertation introduces readers to the major figures and features of the twentieth-century American prosperity gospel. It argues that these diverse expressions of Christian faith-fuelled abundance can be understood ... -
Breaking New Ground: Pastoral Leadership in the Roman Catholic Church Through the Lens of Bowen Systems Theory
(2014)Abstract This thesis studies Bowen Systems Theory from the perspective of leadership in light of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church because I believe that this theory/systemic understanding of leadership ... -
The Censored Pulpit: Julian of Norwich as Preacher
(2014)This dissertation consists of a homiletical reading of Julian of Norwich's life and work. While Julian is often classified as a mystic or theologian, she may be better categorized as a preacher in light of contemporary ... -
"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
(2009)This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Common Bound: The Small Groups of Methodism
(2016)The system of small groups John Wesley established to promote a proper life of discipleship in early Methodist converts was, in many respects, the strength of the Methodist movement. Those who responded to Wesley’s initial ... -
Concealed Insanity: Protestant Conceptions of Mental Maladies
(2014-10-01)From the colonial era to the twentieth century American Protestants professed to care for the well-being of bodies, minds, and souls, but those living with mental illnesses often received minimal attention. Through a focus ... -
Confession and Lament in Nahum 3: Journeys of Healing after War
(2008-08-15)In this paper, I will first establish the deep need for lament within the journey of healing which takes place for the soldier having returned home from war. In this section, I will recognize the gravity of the soldier’s ... -
Constituting the Protestant Mainline: the Christian Century, 1908-1947
(2008-11-19)Scholars, journalists, and religious leaders in the twentieth century widely hailed The Christian Century as the most influential Protestant magazine in America. This dissertation investigates the meaning of such praise. ... -
Continuity and Discontinuity: the Temple and Early Christian Identity
(2008-12-10)In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he asks the readers this question: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor 3:16). Although Paul is the earliest Christian writer ... -
The Contradictions of Genre in the Nehemiah Memorial
(2009)The first-person Hebrew narrative of the Persian courtier sent to be governor of Judah, the "Nehemiah Memorial" (or NM: Neh 1-2:20; 3:33-7:3; 13:4-31), is a crucial text for understanding how elements within ancient Judaism ... -
Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions
(2016)A theology of institutions is dependent upon an imagination sparked by the cross and shaped by the hope of the resurrection. Creative destruction is the institutional process of dying so that new life might flourish for ... -
The Dangerous Love of the Gentiles: A Christian Vision for Living with Islam in Indonesia
(2015-05-22)The year 2014 closed with a hostage drama in a Cafe in Sydney, and the year 2015 opened with Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, followed by the shooting of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tensions ... -
The Deacon - Phoenix of Roman Catholic Clergy
(2014)The challenge is the Roman Catholic Church's need for a bit more aggiornamento in the ecclesiology of parochial ministry. The persistent priest shortage has been met with provisional solutions, harboring hopes that increased ... -
The Didache and Traditioned Innovation: Shaping Christian Community in the First Century and the Twenty-First Century
(2016)Church leaders, both lay and clergy, shape Christian community. Among their central tasks are: building communal identity, nurturing Christian practices, and developing faithful structures. When it comes to understanding ... -
Dispensational Modernism
(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
(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 ...
