Dissertations and Theses (1995-Present)

2008
Epistemological Hereneutics in Clinical Praxis by Kelly Armstrong

The festival of Indra : the construction of a South Asian urban celebration by Michael Charles Baltutis

Crisis of Transcendence: Theology, Ethics, and the Arts in Contemporary Culture by J. Sage Elwell

Peace through conversation: William Penn, Israel Pemberton and the shaping of Quaker-Indian relations, 1681-1757 by Larry Brent Hershey

Sustaining Dharma, Sustaining Ecology:  Perspectives from Hindu Communities of India by Pankaj Jain

An Ethical Analysis of Thomas Aquinas and the Virtue of Temperance:  Sexual Virtue Revisited by Richard William McCarty

Generating and Mediating Religious Identities:  Islamic Healing Rituals Shared By Hindus and Muslims in the Dargahs of Hyderabad, India by Eric Rothgery

2007
Disenfranchised awakeners : Anglo-Moravians, religious competition and evangelical identity in the Mid-Atlantic colonies by Jared Scott Burkholder

Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on temperance to the contemporary effort to understand and treat addiction by Mitchell Carl Coleman

Rehearsals for engagement : the moral practice of friendship and the cultivation of social concern by Jordan Joel Copeland

Living a poetic life : womanist ethics and spirituals in the autobiographies of Maya Angelou by Sara Elizabeth Dohrman

Globalization and the future of a theology of redemption : beyond fundamentalism and postmodernism by Verna Marina Ehret

Preaching as reimagining : Christian thought in dialogue with North American Islam by Steven Robert Fink

The good nurse : recovering the virtue of obedience for the work of health care teams by Joan Malia Henriksen Hellyer

The sound of the watchman : mimetic exegesis and the monastic ideal in Cassian’s Conferences by Christopher James Kelly

Strategies, tactics and doctrine : Yunqi Zhuhong and Buddhist interaction with Confucian gentry in Ming China by Matthew Jonathon Wilhite

2006
Poor relief as catalyst : female activism and confessional identity in seventeenth-century France by Mara Catherine Fitzgibbon Adams

Spiritual development of the archetypal feminine in the sacred literatures of Judaism and Hinduism : Damayantī and Tamar by Lyone Sami Fein

Producing Father Nelson H. Baker: the practices of making a saint for Buffalo, N.Y.by Heather A. Hartel

The patera in religious iconography by Christian Jeffrey Haunton

Reading by the light of a burning phoenix: an inquiry into faith, deliverance, and despair within humankind’s paradoxical suspension between the conditional and the unconditional by Patrick James McCauley

Justified by fiction : the left behind series and evangelical culture by Brooke Elizabeth Sherrard

2005
Emplaced in the world : theological modeling and the concept of nature by Forrest John Clingerman

Thought gives rise to hope : an implicit theme in the work of Paul Ricoeur by Rebecca Kathleen Huskey

"Zealous for publick liberty and the wellfare of their country" : rationalist Presbyterians and the struggle for freedom of religion in America, 1694-1769 by Mitchell Galen Kinsinger

The sacramental theology of Balthasar Hubmaier and its implications for ecclesiology by Kirk Robert MacGregor

The neglected dimension of love : sacrificial love and its role in Christian ethics by Mary Nona Pugh

Countering revivalism and revitalizing Protestantism : high church, confessional, and romantic critiques of Second Great Awakening revivalism, 1835 to 1852 by Russ Patrick Reeves

2004
Symbols of suhāg : paradigms of women’s empowerment in Hindu domestic ritual stories by Robert Alexander Menzies

The reception of Origen’s exegesis of Romans in the Latin West by Thomas P. Scheck

Competing concerns : religious conversion and its respondents in modern India by Robert J. Stephens

Thirty years later : challenges to liberation theology in a south Quito church by Michaela Diango-Rose Walsh

A Daoist way of transcendence : Bai Yuchan’s inner alchemical thought and practice by Li Wang

Buddhism, war, and nationalism : Chinese monks in the struggle against Japan, 1931-1945 by Yu Xue

2003
"Words of eternity in human forms" : William Blake’s transformation of styles, forms, and genres of the Hebrew Bible in Jerusalem by Rachel Leah Wagner

2002
Prophets from the ranks of shepherds : John Calvin and the challenge of popular religion (1532-1555) by Albert David Anders

Quiet courage : fortifying the self to be vulnerable from within an aristotelian-thomistic conception of virtue and a good human life by Sandra Faye Gines

2001
Active religious women on the Iowa frontier : a study in continuity and discontinuity by Helen Marie Burns

East meets West : the Chinese and evangelical Christianity by Chan-Yu Lee

2000
Black and human : rediscovering King as a resource for Black theology and ethics by Don Loyd Davis

A convenient faith : royal supremacy and the definition of Christian doctrine in Tudor England by Daniel Frederick Eppley

Standing at the heads of dreamers : a study of dreams in antiquity by Frances Lynn Flannery-Dailey

Risen into the kerygma : a reevaluation of Rudolf Bultmann’s Christology by Peter Gerhard

"--according to each one’s deeds" : the criteria and function of judgment by works in light of God’s mercy as it relates to early Jewish and Pauline conceptions of eternal salvation by Christopher K.VanLandingham

1999
Connecting the sacred with the profane : Jonathan Edwards and the scripture history by Robert Eric Brown

Paul Tillich’s theological method and the globalization of capitalism by Donald Mark Davis

What earth has given, and human hands have made : applying Thomas’ theory of the good to environmental ethics by Robert Loren Grant

The hermeneutics of historical distance : Charles Augustus Briggs and Milton Spencer Terry as American biblical critical moderates by Robert Stuart Moore-Jumonville

The Romanian version of the testament of Abraham : text, translation, and cultural context

1998
Toward a pastoral diagnosis of self-enmity and toward a pastoral treatment of self-compassion Nan Hirleman Aalborg

The relationship between the dispensational belief of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and their support for Israel and some consequences therefrom by Ali Shawkat Barghouthi

The problem of medical futility and one possible solution : the four principle decision making model applied with care by Kathryn Karpowicz Freilinger

Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical ethics by Glenn Alan Whitehouse

1997
Faith, compassion and religious understanding in Julian of Norwich’s Showings by Shelly Louise Hall

An enlightenment Calvinist : Samuel Hopkins and the pursuit of benevolence by Peter Dan Jauhiainen

Paul Tillich’s early philosophy of religion from within the system of the sciences by Duane LeRoy Olson

1996
Envisioning forgiveness : frameworks of justice and forgiveness in the moral life by Christopher Carl Johnson

1995
Roots and words, a bridge of oak : an analysis of time and narrative identity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando through the theory of Paul Ricoeur by Kristin Alana Baum

The story of Jesus’ birth : a pagan and Jewish affair by Beverly Ann Bow

The development of penitential prayer as a religious institution in Second Temple Judaism by Rodney Alan Werline

Pragmatic evangelical Presbyterians : theological moderates in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1870-1920 by John R Wiers