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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

This dissertation traces the development of catechesis as an educational institution in early Christianity, with a focus on Italy and North Africa from the second to the fifth century. While catechesis has been an object ...

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 ...