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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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 ... -
The Topography of utopia : Revelation 21-22 in light of ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism.
(, 2012-08-08)In this dissertation, I set out to achieve two primary goals: first, to construct a detailed description of ancient utopian expectations according to Greco-Roman and Jewish literature, and second, to read Revelation 21–22 ... -
The topos of divine testimony in Luke-Acts.
(2010-02-02)This dissertation addresses the concept of authoritative testimony in Luke-Acts. Specifically, the dissertation argues that ancient audiences would have understood particular elements in the narrative of Luke-Acts to be ... -
Toward a Protestant theology of celibacy: Protestant thought in dialogue with John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
(2006-05-27)This dissertation examines the theology of celibacy found both in John Paul II's writings and in current Protestant theology, with the aim of developing a framework and legitimation for a richer Protestant theology of ... -
Transforming views of Baptist ecclesiology : Baptists and the New Christendom model of political engagement.
(2008-10-02)While most twentieth century commentators on Baptist distinctives note well the commitment to religious liberty, the context of the discussion typically treats religious liberty as a natural right secured through the ... -
Understanding the world better than it understands itself: the theological hermeneutics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
(2008-10-02)This dissertation argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work is best understood as a consistent project of theological hermeneutics with an ecclesial focus. The project examines Bonhoeffer’s life and writings with the intention ... -
We believe in the Communion of Saints: a proposed Protestant reclamation of the doctrine.
(2006-10-26)The corrective theology of the Reformation broke the historic union, at least in Europe, among all members of the kingdom of God. Perhaps the most serious Protestant loss—one still not satisfactorily recovered—is the ...