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Education in the Thought and Theology of Jorge Mario Bergoglio
(2014-06-02)
The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy was not expected either by those inside Catholic politics or by non-Catholic observers. Because of his former anonymity in the English-speaking world, there exists a ...
Made in God's Image: A Multidisciplinary Study of Personhood and Faith
(2019-05-22)
The question "what is a person?" haunts countless disciplines and debates, from theology to neuroscience, abortion to artificial intelligence. For Christians to engage meaningfully in such areas in a way consistent with ...
When He Comes in Glory: Theatre and its Resources for Theology
(2016-08-08)
. Early church fathers like Tertullian and Augustine argued that Christians should have no association with drama. Tertullian viewed the theatre as a temple of idolatry, while Augustine believed that the theatre provokes ...
Addressing Racism in the Church: A Historical, Sociological, Theological, and Practical Account
(2020-05-22)
In the past decade, a growing body of literature has examined the pernicious relationship between racism and Christianity, making it an increasingly pressing issue for modern-day ministers to address. However, many are ...
Constructing a Catholic Political Economy; The Christian Anthropology and Market Capitalism
(2016-08-09)
In this thesis, I will argue that the vision of the human person implicit within market capitalism differs from the anthropology outlined and interpreted through Catholic Social Teaching; the anthropology of each posits ...
The Role of Womanhood in St. Hildegard’s Medical Practices
(2019-05-24)
Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century German abbess (1098-1179), was not only a woman of great influence and power during her time, but she was also a female figure who wrote extensively about women – particularly about ...
Christian Theology of the Body and the Body Positivity Movement
(2018-08-07)
In this thesis, I review theology of the body in Catholic and Protestant history and discuss what it means to use and misuse the body, investigating the theology of fasting and the muscular Christianity movement to explore ...
Points and Spheres: Cosmological Innovation in Dante's Divine Comedy
This thesis analyzes the cosmology of Dante’s Divine Comedy, with particular focus on the ways in which Dante deviated from contemporary paradigms (and even from his own paradigms as expressed in his earlier Convivio) ...
Learning to See the Signs: How the Incarnation Reveals the Semiotic Nature of Scripture and Reality in Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana
(2021-05-18)
Augustine’s treatise on interpreting and teaching Scripture, De Doctrina Christiana, in suitably Augustinian fashion, seeks to understand the nature of all reality and how human beings interact with all things, created and ...
"Who is the Other?": The Intersection of Anthropological and Theological Discourse On U.S. Relations with Latin American Refugees
(2020-06-01)
The existence of oneself logically necessitates the existence of another, for being
able to define what one is requires that one differentiates from what one is not. This is
referred to as the self-other dichotomy. The ...