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Completed Doctoral Dissertations Name Year Dissertation Title Completed doctoral dissertations Name Year Dissertation Title Director(s) Gooding, Christopher 2019 Beyond Slavery: Christian Theology and Rehabilitation from Human Trafficking Long Heaps, Jonathan 2019 The Ambiguity of Being: Medieval and Modern Cooperation on the Question of the Supernatural Doran/Nussberger Moore, Lisa 2019 Widow as the Altar of God: Retrieving Ancient Sources for Contemporary Discussions on Christian Discipleship Mueller Moscicke, Hans 2019 The New Day of Atonement: A Matthean Typology Orlov/Cover Togni, Luke 2019 A Sweet Influence: St. Bonaventure's Franciscan Reception of Dionysian Hierarchy Zemler-Cizewski Zappia, Dominic 2019 Confessing Characters: Coming to Faith in the Gospel of John Hills Blanchard, Shaun 2018 The Eighteenth Century Roots of Vatican II: Italian Philo-Jansenists and the English Cisalpines Lehner/Mueller Elder, Nicholas 2018 The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narratives Hills/Burns Kidd, Nathaniel 2018 Imagining Demons in Post-Christian Jerusalem: John of Damascus and the Consolidation of Classical Christian Demonology Plested Olver, Matthew 2018 The Sacrifice of the Word: A Contextual Study of the Use of Scripture in the Roman Canon Wood Stewart, Tyler 2018 "The Present Evil Age": The Origin and Persistence of Evil in Galatians Orlov/Cover Walkey, Jeffrey 2018 Infideles et Philosophi : Assent, Untruth, and Natural Knowledge of the Simple God Mueller/Long Sytsma, Lee 2018 John Cassian's Theology of Grace and Free Will: Competing Trajectories in the Semi-Pelagian Controversy Barnes Atkins, Justin 2017 The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church Hills Barry, IV, Richard 2017 "The Two Goats:" A Christian Yom Kippur Soteriology Long/Nussberger Brenna, Christopher 2017 Exodus as New Creation, Israel as Foundling: Stories in the History of an Idea Orlov Gehrke, Jason 2017 Christus Exemplar: The Politics of Virtue in Lactantius Barnes/Cover Harmon, Andrew 2017 Image and Virtue in Ambrose of Milan Barnes Loynes, Sr., Duane 2017 A God Worth Worshiping: Toward a Critical Race Theology Long/Masson Martins, Alexandre 2017 The Cry of the Poor: An Anthropology of Suffering and Justice in Healthcase from a Latin American Liberation Approach Massingale/Wood Trump, Mark 2017 "The First Thing Andrew Did" (John 1:41): Readers as Witnesses in the Fourth Gospel Hills Biddy, Wesley 2016 Creator Spirit, Spirit of Grace: Trinitarian Dimensions of a Charitological Pneumatology Dabney Butner, David 2016 The Economic Trinity: On Communion with the Triune God in a Market Economy Long/Doran Foyer, Raymond 2016 Paul and the Doers of the Law: The Relationship of Faith, Works, and Works of the Law in the Theology of Romans Hills Gabrielson, Timothy 2016 Primeval History According to Paul: "In Adam" and "in Christ" in Romans Hills Gordon, Joseph 2016 Subjectivity Correlative to the Written Word of God: A Systematic Theology of Christian Scriptural Interpretation Long/Doran Horstkoetter, David 2016 Towards a Shrewd Christianity without Deceit: Gary Dorrien, Stanley Hauerwas, Rowan Williams, and the Theological Transformation of S Long/Nussberger Kidd, Erin 2016 The Mystical and Political Body: Christian Identity in the Theology of Karl Rahner Masson Kisler, Helga 2016 "Love the Stranger:" Literary Motif and the Cultivation of Justice, Righteousness, and Compassion under the Shadow of Empire Dempsey Kuzma, Andrew 2016 Theo-Dramatic Ethics: A Balthasarian Approach to Moral Formation Long Miller, Samantha 2016 No Sympathy for the Devil: The Significance of Demons in John Chrysostom's Solteriology Barnes Montejo, Gregorio 2016 Fully Human, Fully Divine: The Theadric Christ of Thomas Aquinas Johnson Plaxco, Kellen 2016 The Trinitarian Theology of Didymus the Blind Barnes Schlesinger, Eugene 2016 Ite, Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology Wood Suriano, Benjamin 2016 The Aesthetics of the Resurrection: The Life of Political Theology Long/Doran Thiel, Nathan 2016 The Johannine Jews and Intro-Jewish Polemic: Reading the Fourth Gospel as a Family Row Hills/Burns Waers, Stephen 2016 Origen's Early Trinitarian Theology and the Monarchian Controversy Barnes Willowby, Nathan 2016 Sanctification as Virtue and Mission: The Politics of Holiness Long Alexis-Baker, Andy 2015 The Word Became Flesh: On Jesus's Particularity and Nonhuman Animals Long Anderas, Phillip 2015 Renovatio Martin Luther's Augustinian Theology of Holiness (1515/16 and 1535-46) Mattox Chapman, Mark 2015 Models of Conversion in American Evangelicalism: Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge and Old Princeton, and Charles Finney Carey Erickson, Douglas 2015 Eschatology and the Work of the Spirit in the Vineyard and New Wine Movement Long Hadley, S.J., Christopher 2015 The All-Embracing Frame: Distance in the Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar Long Jennings, Mark A. 2015 "Make My Joy Complete": The Price of Partnership in the Letter of Paul to the Philippians Hills Naydenov, Emanuel D. 2015 The Unsettled Church: The Search for Identity and Relevance in the Ecclesiologies of Nicholas Healy, Ephraim Radner, and Darrell Guder Dabney Rinderknecht, Jakob K. 2015 Seeing Two Worlds: The Eschatological Anthropology of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification Wood Henson, Darren M. 2014 Palliative Care's Sacramental and Liturgical Foundations: Healthcare Formed by Faith, Hope, and Love Long Name Year Dissertation Title Director(s) Jenks, Stephen F. 2014 "Now These Things Happened as Examples for Us" (1 Cor: 10:6): The Biblical-Narrative Depiction of Human Sinfulness Dabney Meier-Rao, Rebecca 2014 Love for God and Earth: Ecospirituality in the Theologies of Sallie McFague and Leonardo Boff Massingale Monson, Paul 2014 Stabilitas in Congregatione: The Benedictine Evangelization of America in the Life and Thought of Martin Marty, O.S.B. Carey Mueller, Elijah 2014 The Word is an Angel of the Mind: Angelic and Temple Imagery in the Theology of John Mansur, the Damascene Golitzin Samuel, Christopher 2014 "Heavenly Theologians": The Place of Angels in the Theology of Martin Luther Mattox Timmer, Sarah 2014 Receptive Ecumenism and Justification: Roman Catholic and Reformed Doctrine in Contemporary Context Wood Vanden Eykel, Eric M. 2014 "But Their Faces Were All Looking Up": Author and Reader in the Protevangelium of James Hills Weedman, E., Michelle 2014 Mary's Fertility as the Model of the Ascetical Life in Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns of the Nativity Golitzin Fisher, Abraham 2013 The Church as Sybolic Mediation: Revelation Ecclesiology in the Theology of Avery Dulles, S.J. Wood Flipper, Joseph 2013 Sacrament and Eschatological Fulfillment in Henri de Lubac's Theology of History Wood Harris, Michael 2013 Christological Name Theology in Three Second Century Communities Barnes Holsclaw, Geoffrey 2013 Transcending Subjects: Hegel, Augustine, and the Conversion of Politics Long Morgan, Jonathan 2013 Circumcision of the Spirit in the Soteriology of Cyril of Alexandria Barnes Rice, Lincoln 2013 Toward a Renewed Theological Framework of Catholic Racial Justice: A Vision Inspired by the Life and Writings of Dr. Arthur Grand Pré Fa Massingale Roberts, Jason 2013 Emerging in the Image of God: From Evolution to Ethics in a Second Naivete Understanding of Christian Anthropology Schaefer Shatzer, Jacob 2013 "A Spreading and Abiding Hope": A.J. Conyers and Evangelical Theopolitical Imagination Long Sigmon, Brian 2013 Between Eden and Egypt: Echoes of the Garden Narrative in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers Pace Spotts, Christopher 2013 Rediscovering Sabbath: Hebrew Social Thought and Its Contribution to Black Theology's Visision for America Massingale Baumgardt, Gretchen 2012 Ecofeminism: Gnanadason and Metz in Dialogue Schaefer Blackwood, Jeremy 2012 Love and Lonergan's Cognitional-Intentional Anthropology Doran Brenner, John 2012 The Election Controversy Among Lutherans Carey Caldwell, Paul 2012 Yves Congar, O.P.: Ecumenicist of the Twentieth Century and the Theologian of Vatican II Long Carpenter, Anne 2012 Figure and Metaphysics in the Thought of von Balthasar Long/Nussberger Ganski, Christopher 2012 Spirit and Flesh: On the Significance of the Reformed Doctrine of the Lord's Supper for Pneumatology Del Colle Lloyd, Daniel 2012 The Christology of Novatian of Rome Barnes Luy, David 2012 Dominus Mortis: Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ Long/Mattox Matossian, Michael 2012 The Church and the Mediation of Grace: A Reformed Perspective on Ordained Ministry and the Threefold Office of Christ Mattox Ramsey, Susan 2012 Anapausis in the Macarian Homilies Golitzin Scully, Jason 2012 Isaac of Nineveh's Contribution to Syriac Theology: An Eschatological Reworking of Greek Anthropology Golitzin Shellberg, Pamela 2012 From Cleansed Lepers to Cleansed Hearts: The Developing Meaning of Katharizo in Luke-Acts Sullivan Volk, John 2012 Lonergan on the Historical Causality of Christ: An Interpretation of The Redemption: A Supplement to De Verbo Incarnato Doran Vranic, Vasilije 2012 The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrrhus Golitzin Bonta, Anthony 2011 Bishop Andrew Grutka: Episcopal Leadership 1957-1984 Carey Cortright, Charles L. 2011 "Poor Maggot Sack That I Am": The Human Body in the Theology of Martin Luther Mattox DeFranza, Megan K. 2011 Intersex and Imago: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Postmodern Theological Anthropology Dabney Douglas, Jerome N. 2011 Qoheleth: An Anti-apocalyptic Genre for a Message of Joy Dempsey Foster, Robert 2011 Paul's Interpretation of the Old Testament in Romans 9 Hills Gerlach, Matthew
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