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Re-imaging the warrior : divine warrior imagery in the book of Revelation.
(, 2012-08-08)The focus of this dissertation is to investigate whether the ancient motif of Divine Warrior imagery can aid in understanding the violent imagery in the book of Revelation. The specific strategy is to examine how John’s ... -
A re-membering sign : the Eucharist and ecclesial unity in Baptist ecclesiologies.
(2010-02-02)This dissertation argues for the Lord’s Supper, or Eucharist, as a vital basis of the church’s unity as the body of Christ. It focuses especially on the theology of James Wm. McClendon, Jr., who, though a member of a ... -
Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew
(Perspectives in Religious Studies., 2006)This dissertation seeks to read the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of ... -
Reading the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) as the authorial audience.
(, 2012-08-08)Since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, interpretation of the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus has tended to revolve around two primary issues: (1) the structure and unity of the parable; and (2) the search for ... -
Recasting a fish story: miracle and mission in Luke 5:1-11.
(2016-03-18)In the calling of Peter, James, and John, the Gospel of Luke incorporates three distinct traditional stories about Jesus into one narrative. The focus of this study is to understand the way this arrangement is heard by ... -
Reclaiming peace : evangelical scientists and evolution after World War II.
(2011-01-05)This dissertation argues that during the same period in which antievolutionism became a movement within American evangelicalism, two key groups of evangelical scientists attempted to initiate a countervailing trend. The ... -
Reconsidering the Book of the Four : the shaping of Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah as an early prophetic collection.
(2018-02-07)The hypothesis that redactors collected and edited Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah into an exilic “Book of the Four” has gained significant momentum in redaction-critical scholarship over the last twenty years. Since its ... -
Revivalism and restorationism : the Brownsville Revival and its leaders’ paradoxical defense.
(2019-12-17)This study examines the Brownsville Revival, a Pentecostal revival of religion that took place at the end of the twentieth century at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida. The church belonged to the Pentecostal ... -
Singing songs and telling tales : the function of story in the book of Psalms.
(2018-03-07)This dissertation explores the presence and function of stories in the Hebrew Psalter. Pushing against a general scholarly trend to focus on the non-narrative aspect of Hebrew poetry, I demonstrate that the book of Psalms ... -
Solidarity, compassion, truth: the pacifist witness of Dorothy Day.
(2006-10-13)The truth of the gospel requires witnesses, and the pacifist witness of Dorothy Day embodies the peaceable character of a church that, in the words of Stanley Hauerwas, "is not some ideal but an undeniable reality." In ... -
Speech-in-character, diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9 : who's speaking when and why it matters.
(2016-02-05)This project aims to resolve questions concerning Paul’s imaginary dialogue with an interlocutor in Romans 3:1-9 and to demonstrate how understanding the dialogue’s script matters in the letter’s larger argument. Advancing ... -
Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
(2019-07-15)Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has been called many things: a Lutheran, a Pietist, a mystic, a poet, and the first existentialist philosopher. While these labels all have some degree of truth, I argue that the best name for ... -
Syncretism: the presence of Roman augury in the consecration of English monarchs.
(2007-12-04)The purpose of this study is to offer insight into the reason for an eagle’s presence in the English royal consecration of the monarch. This trans-era study examines the impact of the Roman practice of augury on the ... -
The development of female Pentecostal missiology in the Middle East : the careers of Josephine Planter, Lillian Trasher, and Margaret Gaines.
(2020-10-28)This dissertation is an investigation into the missionary careers of three Pentecostal female missionaries who served in the Middle East. First, Josephine Slezak Planter (1867-1954) immigrated to the United States from ... -
The Elder Son’s quandary and the Rich Man’s fate : moral formation, characterization, and rhetoric in Luke 15:11-32 and 16:19-31.
(2018-03-29)In this dissertation, I engage the interrelated topics of characterization, rhetorical techniques, and moral formation as a way to interpret the Parable of the Prodigals (Luke 15:11-32) and the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke ... -
The foreign kings and the Jewish sages : reading the narratives in Daniel 1–6.
(2018-07-11)This study examines the portrayal of foreign kings in Dan 1–6, suggesting a new interpretive approach to these narratives and drawing out the implications of this portrayal for the unity and theme of the book of Daniel. ... -
The fragility of words : postliberal theology and the difficulty of language.
(2020-03-27)This dissertation explores the difficulty of taking our human language seriously in the discipline of Christian theology and ethics. The central difficulty that concerns me is how the strength and dependability of language ... -
The interlocutors in the book of Malachi.
(2019-07-09)The book of Malachi is marked not only by the words of the prophet but also by voices distinct from and often in opposition to the prophet: the interlocutors. In this work I address two questions. First, to what extent do ... -
The restoration of all of God’s children : the Gentile mission and the salvation of black-skinned people in Luke/Acts.
(2020-06-11)The author of Luke and Acts links his discussion of the salvation of the Gentile nations and even the restoration of Israel to the salvation of black-skinned people. Against the background in which Luke is writing, it ... -
The West face of Judges : Greek influence on early Israelite Bat-Jephthah, Samson, Deborah and Jael.
(2018-04-05)The traditions in the Hebrew Bible (HB) were not created in a vacuum. Israel’s stories grew out of a larger ancient eastern Mediterranean context, and were influenced by the surrounding world including the Aegean. When ...