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"I will gather the nations" : the fate of the nations on the day of Yahweh in the Book of the Twelve.
(2011-05-12)This study explores the correlation between pronouncements of judgment against specific nations on the day of Yahweh and accusations of aggression by those nations toward Israel or Judah in the Book of the Twelve. This ... -
In heaven as it is on earth : the development of the interpreting angel motif in biblical literature of the neo-Babylonian, Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
(, 2013-05-15)The motif of angelic interpretation of symbolic visions is a major feature of late prophetic and apocalyptic literature, yet the development of this literary motif has remained largely unexplored within biblical scholarship. ... -
An interpretation of Isaiah 6:1-5 in response to the art and ideology of the Achaemenid Empire.
(2008-04-22)This dissertation is an interpretation of Isa 6:1-5. Imperial art, policies, and ideology are a significant part of the context according to which this interpretation is done. The thesis of this dissertation is that in ... -
Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative.
(, 2014-01-28)At least three issues remain unsettled with regard to the interpretation of Luke’s passion narrative: (1) the sources that Luke employed when composing his narrative; (2) how best to translate δίκαιος in 23:47 and how this ... -
Jacob and the divine Trickster : a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle.
(2010-10-08)The book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family: his father Isaac, brother Esau, and uncle Laban. At the same time, Genesis depicts Jacob as YHWH's chosen from ... -
Jean Daniélou's doxological humanism : Trinitarian contemplation and humanity's true vocation.
(2010-02-02)In the first half of the twentieth century there arose a loose conglomeration of theologians that were pejoratively dubbed la nouvelle théologie. Initially known for the monumental debate with the Dominican Thomism of the ... -
Karl Barth's historical-critical exegesis of Romans 5:12-21 in Christ and Adam.
(2019-03-18)Karl Barth’s scriptural interpretation has often been criticized by biblical specialists as theologically-driven eisegesis. This is particularly true of the exposition of Rom 5:12–21 that Barth published in 1952 as Christ ... -
The kingship of Yahweh and the politics of poverty and oppression in the Hebrew Psalter.
(2011-01-05)This dissertation is a rhetorical critical analysis of the Hebrew Psalter's use of language connoting poverty to portray Yahweh, ancient Israel, and foreign nations and to structure the literary relationships between them. ... -
The language of Dissent : the defense of Eighteenth-Century English Dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
(2011-01-05)This biographical dissertation argues that the thought of James Peirce (1674-1726), the Presbyterian minister whose controversial theology was the catalyst for the division of Dissent in 1719, must be considered in relation ... -
The legitimacy of the comic : Kierkegaard and the importance of the comic for his ethics and theology.
(, 2011-12-19)While some consider the comic to be a trivial subject, fit mainly for amusement or distraction, Søren Kierkegaard disagrees. This dissertation examines Kierkegaard’s understanding of the nature of the comic and how he ... -
Liang Fa's Quanshi liangyan and its impact on the Taiping Movement.
(, 2011-09-14)Scholars of the Taiping Movement have assumed that Liang Fa’s Quanshi liangyan 勸世良言 (Good Words to Admonish the Age, being Nine Miscellaneous Christian Tracts) greatly influenced Hong Xiuquan, but very little has been ... -
A life for others : the rhetorical function of necessity in Luke's bios of Jesus.
(, 2012-11-29)This dissertation investigates necessity in Luke’s bios of Jesus using rhetorical and audience-oriented criticism. New Testament scholarship has reached a consensus that the gospels are examples of ancient Greco-Roman ... -
Love itself is understanding : Balthasar, truth, and the saints.
(, 2013-09-24)This study examines the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar on the post-Scholastic separation between dogmatic theology and the spirituality of Church, which he describes as the loss of the saints. Balthasar conceives of ... -
Matthew Simpson : a critical biography concerning Methodism's rise into the national spotlight.
(2019-03-08)Matthew Simpson (1811-1884), a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is most often remembered for his preaching career and relationship to President Abraham Lincoln. Simpson’s life closely follows the trajectory of ... -
Messenger, apologist, and nonconformist : an examination of Thomas Grantham's leadership among the seventeenth-century General Baptists.
(2009-01-06)This dissertation argues that Thomas Grantham (1633/4-1692) was instrumental in organizing and legitimizing the General Baptists in Lincolnshire and Norfolk in the second half of the seventeenth century. The first chapter ... -
Metropolitan designs and colonial realitites : a comparison of the work of the Church Missionary Society and the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in the West Indies and Sierra Leone, 1785-1835.
(, 2013-05-15)This dissertation examines the work of two missionary societies in two fields and explores how these missions differed from the visions formulated in London. The Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Church Missionary ... -
The narrative effect of Book IV of the Hebrew Psalter.
(2006-07-21)This dissertation asserts that a reader encountering the canonical Hebrew Psalter can read from the beginning and capture a sense of plot. The turning point of the story is Book IV (Psalms 90-106). It is at this point ... -
One Christian's plea : the life, ministry, and controversies of Francis Johnson.
(2006-10-13)Francis Johnson (1562-1618) served as pastor of the English Separatist congregation that became known as the "Ancient Church" from 1592 until his death in 1618. The congregation was first gathered in London under the ... -
Ontology, ecclesiology, nonviolence : the witness against war in the theologies of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.
(, 2011-09-14)This dissertation argues that nonviolence bears witness to a particular form of social existence visible in the church. War, I argue, describes a form of social existence which is a counter social ontology to the existence ... -
Ontology, exegesis, and culture in the thought of Henri de Lubac.
(2006-07-24)This dissertation examines the continuity between Henri de Lubac's retrieval of patristic and medieval exegesis and his treatment of the ontological relationship between nature and grace. I argue that, for de Lubac, the ...