The aim of this project is to articulate the significance of embodiment in the theological doctrine of the imago Dei. Reading Gregory of Nyssa’s theological anthropology in conversation with three French phenomenologists—Maurice ...

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 ...

For most of the twentieth century, the majority of Psalms scholarship has understood the change in mood in lament psalms, or Stimmungsumschwung, to be the result of an oracle of salvation of some sort. The result of this ...

This dissertation explores the work of theology in terms of discerning the liberative reality of God in history. At the heart of the dissertation is a black oral tradition emerging and circulating in Waco, Texas which ...

The description of Solomon’s Temple windows in 1 Kgs 6:4 includes obscure terminology and provides no explicit insight into the function or symbolism of the temple windows. In this dissertation, I examine 1 Kgs 6:4 in its ...

This dissertation is a theological consideration of conflict in pluralist democratic politics. Centering on the relationship between political community and difference, it develops an “agonistic political theology” of ...

Since the rise of biblical criticism, there has been a steady stream of scholarship exploring the possibility of reading the biblical text as humorous. This has been especially true of Jesus-studies, where scholars and ...

This study evaluates five divine acclamations in the Book of Acts by situating them within the broader ancient Mediterranean context of deification. It demonstrates that divine acclamations in Acts do not conform to a ...

This dissertation investigates the conflict in the Corinthian church described by 1 Clement. Using primarily social, rhetorical, and intertextual methods, it proposes a reading of the conflict that attributes it to root ...

Following the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960’s and 70’s, a new tradition of theology was inaugurated, known today as Black Liberation Theology. This tradition attempted to offer an account of Christianity ...