Theses/Dissertations - Religion: Recent submissions
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Wealth and poverty and the occasion of First Clement.
(2021-11-02)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 ... -
Ought we kiss the hand that smites us? : Black Protestants in the age of lynching, 1890-1919.
(2021-10-26)The decades-long phenomenon of racialized lynching in the United States took thousands of lives, but beyond the death toll, it also created a culture of terror in Black communities. These communities powerfully resisted ... -
"Gods in human form"? A study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
(2021-08-25)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 ... -
Humor in the midst of Mark : an analysis of incongruity in Mark 4:35–6:6.
(2021-11-17)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 ... -
The shape of faith : creation and theological knowing in early Christian catechesis.
(2021-07-12)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 ... -
Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
(2021-06-10)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 ... -
The radical idea of the priesthood of foreigners : understanding the inclusivism in Isaiah 56:1-8.
(2021-04-02)This dissertation examines how the radical idea of the priesthood of foreigners in Isa 56:1-8 (and 66:18-24) developed in the Persian period by investigating Isa 56:1-8 in relation to its literary context in Isa 56-66 and ... -
Toward a Creole Christ : a theology of language and Christian hybridity.
(2021-04-06)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 ... -
The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa.
(2021-04-18)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 ... -
Reforging history : the divine warrior in Persian period expansions in the Twelve.
(2021-04-21)In the Persian era, a new phase of the development of the Book of the Twelve began. These developments included the incorporation of new documents along with the expansion of existing documents and inevitably incorporated ... -
The whirlwind and the lynching tree : apocalyptic and liberation theology in the black Waco tradition.
(2021-04-01)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 ... -
Visual exegesis of praise and lament in the psalms of individual lament.
(2020-12-05)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 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 windows of heaven” : temple windows in the Hebrew Bible and in comparative ancient Near Eastern evidence.
(2020-06-30)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Acknowledging the suffering and dying : theological anthropology, ordinary language philosophy, and isolation.
(2019-07-10)This dissertation explores the nature of human relationships in the context of suffering and dying. It asks how suffering and dying not only threaten but also reveal our isolation—isolation that is prevalent in our everyday ... -
Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
(2019-05-29)This dissertation evaluates the rhetorical strategies and persuasive impact of speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and select other ancient Greek historical narratives against the template provided by Greco-Roman rhetorical ... -
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 ...