The Theology Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations authored by Marquette University's Theology Department doctoral students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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From Cleansed Lepers to Cleansed Hearts: The Developing Meaning of Katharizo in Luke-Acts, Pamela Shellberg

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Lonergan on the Historical Causality of Christ: An Interpretation of 'The Redemption: A Supplement to De Verbo Incarnato', John Volk

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The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Question of Its Development, Vasilije Vranic

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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"Poor Maggot-Sack that I Am": The Human Body in the Theology of Martin Luther, Charles Lloyd Cortright

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Intersex and Imago: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Postmodern Theological Anthropology, Megan K. DeFranza

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Qoheleth: An Anti-apocalyptic Genre for a Message of Joy, Jerome Douglas

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Renaming Abraham's Children: Election, Ethnicity and the Interpretation of Scripture in Romans 9, Robert Bruce Foster

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Lex Orandi, Lex Legendi: A Correlation of the Roman Canon and the Fourfold Sense of Scripture, Matthew Thomas Gerlach

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The Way to God or God's Way to Us: The Theologies of Edward Farley and James McClendon in Critical Dialogue, Thomas W. Harrington

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Early Christian Sex Change. The Ascetical Context of "Being Made Male" in Early Christianity, Jennifer Lynne Henery

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The Trinitarian Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons, Jackson Jay Lashier

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Renewing a Catholic Theology of Marriage through a Common Way of Life: Consonance with Vowed Religious Life-in-Community, Kent Lasnoski

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Mercy, Justice, and Politics: John Paul II on Capital Punishment, Kevin E. Miller

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The Assumption of All Humanity in Saint Hilary of Poitiers' Tractatus super Psalmos, Ellen Scully

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Full, Conscious, and Active Participation: The Laity as Ecclesial Subjects in an Ecclesiology Informed by Bernard Lonergan, Mary Utzerath

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The Metaphysics and Intellective Psychology in the Natural Desire for Seeing God: Henri de Lubac and Neo-Scholasticism, Christine Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Chosen Nation: Biblical Theopolitics and the Problem of American Christian Nationalism, Braden P. Anderson

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The Church's Unity and Authority: Augustine's Effort to Convert the Donatists, Gavril Andreicut

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Word and Faith in the Formation of Christian Existence: A Study in Gerhard Ebeling's Rejection of the Joint Declaration, Scott A. Celsor

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The Noetic Paschal Anthropos: Genesis 1:27 and the Theology of the Divine Image in Early Paschal Literature, Dragos Andrei Giulea

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"The People Believe That He Has Risen from the Dead": The Gospel of Peter and Early Christian Apologetics, Timothy Henderson

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The Septuagintal Isaian Use of Nomos in the Lukan Presentation Narrative, Mark Walter Koehne

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The Body as Symbol: Bringing Together Theories of Sex/Gender and Race for Theological Discourse, Patricia Lewis

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An Ecclesiology of Charisms in the Theology of Francis A. Sullivan, Michael Anthony Novak

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The Enochic Watchers' Template and the Gospel of Matthew, Amy Elizabeth Richter

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Visionary Ascents of Moses in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: Apocalyptic Motifs and the Growth of Visionary Moses Tradition, Kristine Johnson Ruffatto

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Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study, Travis D. Stolz

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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The Theology of the Holy Spirit According to Irenaeus of Lyons, Anthony A. Briggman

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The Theology of the Holy Spirit According to Irenaeus of Lyons, Anthony A. Briggman

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Wisdom Editing in the Book of Psalms: Vocabulary, Themes, and Structures, Steven Dunn

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The Self-Donation of God: Gerhard Forde and the Question of Atonement in the Lutheran Tradition, Jack Kilcrease

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Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account, Louis William Oliverio Jr.

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Inverberation - The Idiom of "God Among Us:" Karl Barth's Filial-Pneumatology as the Basic Structure of Theology, Aaron T. Smith

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Pentecostal Theology According to the Theologians: An Introduction to the Theological Methods of Pentecostal Systematic Theologians, Christopher Adam Stephenson

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"It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us": Toward a Feminist Pneumatological Argument for Women in Ministry, Lisa P. Stephenson

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Using "Chaos" in Articulating the Relationship of God and Creation in God's Creative Activity, Eric Michael Vail

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Beyond Stewardship: Toward an Agapeic Environmental Ethic, Christopher J. Vena

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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John Courtney Murray, S.J., and Incarnational Humanism, Richard S. Arndt

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What the Law Cannot Do: Samuel DeWitt Proctor's Theological Response to An American Crisis, 1945-1997, Adam L. Bond

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A Great High Priest Who has Passed through the Heavens: In Quest of the Apocalyptic Roots of the Epistle to the Hebrews, James M. Carlson

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The Breaking of the Tablets: A Comparison of the Egyptian Execration Ritual to Exodus 32:19 and Jeremiah 19, Michael S. Donahou

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The Mother of Christ As a Symbol of Christian Unity: A Case Study for Ecumenical Dialogue, Maura E. Hearden

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Re-reading Yoder in Order to Conscientiously Engage Technology through the Practices of the Church, Paul C. Heidebrecht

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The Catholic Church in Dialogue with Non-Christian Faith Traditions: Engaging Jacques Dupuis's Model of Religious Pluralism with Walter Ong's Concept of Dialogic Openness in Media Society, Marinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu

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"Broken Nets": Augustine, Schisms and Rejuvenating Councils in North Africa, Fortunate Ojiako

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The Sources of Ecclesiastes: The "Epic of Gilgamesh" as a Source Document for Ecclesiastes, Timothy Nalin Senapatiratne

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The Sources of Ecclesiastes: The Epic of Gilgamesh As a Source Document for Ecclesiastes, Timothy Nalin Senapatiratne

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A More thorough Trinitarian: Reconsidering Moses Stuart's Role in the Trinitarian Debate in New England, 1819-1850, Jeffrey A. Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Composition and Redaction in the Coptic Gospel of Mary, Ardyth L. Bass

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The Angelomorphic Spirit in Early Christianity: Scripture and theology in Clement of Alexandria's Eclogae Propheticae and Adumbrationes, Bogdan G. Bucur

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Roman Catholic social bioethics critiques secular bioethics: Fetal tissue research and vulnerable populations, Shawnee M Daniels-Sykes

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Roman Catholic Social Bioethics Critiques Secular Bioethics: Fetal Tissue Research and Vulnerable Populations, Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes

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The Role of Human Creativity in the Theological Anthropology of Centesimus Annus and Its Implications for Christian Economic Practices, Kari-Shane Davis

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The Mission Theology of the Irish Holy Ghost Fathers in Igboland, 1905-1970, in the Light of the Changing Face of Mission Today: Toward a Mission Theology for the Igbo Church, Charles Achunike Ebelebe

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Matthew's Vision: The Unity of the Formula Citations in Matt 1:1-4:16, Jeremy R. Holmes

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Prophetic Catholicism: Appropriating John Courtney Murray, S.J., in Postmodern America, Jennifer Laske

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Encounter - call - mission: Conversion in the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Daniel W McGuire

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The Harmony between the Right to Private Property and the Call to Solidarity in Modern Catholic Social Teaching, Constance J. Nielsen

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Intersecting Narratives: The Quest for Identity in a Post-Traditional World and the Prophetic Message of Franz Kafka, Matthew T. Powell

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ruah YHWH, ruah 'elohim: A case for literary and theological distinction in the Deuteronomistic History, John M Ragsdale

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The Heart of Rahner: An Analysis of Karl Rahner's Theology Using Andrew Tallon's Theory of Triune Consciousness, Heidi Russell

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Yahweh Will be My God "if": The Vow of Jacob and His Relationship to the God of His Fathers (Genesis 25-35), Nathanael E. Schmiedicke

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The Gate of Heaven Opens to the Trinity: The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne von Speyr, Matthew Lewis Sutton

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Dumitru Staniloae and Its Significance for Contemporary Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue, Radu Bordeianu

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A Critical Assessment of Sacrament and Ethics in the Thought of Louis-Marie Chauvet, Timothy M. Brunk

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Who Are the Wise? : A Critical Analysis of Film and Papal Social Teaching for Those Who Can Reclaim and Revitalize the Vision of a More Just America, Alejandro Crosthwaite

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Tradition in Transformation: The Celebration of the Lord's Supper in the Reformed Church in America, Christopher Dorn

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The Costly Witness of the Church: The World Council of Churches' Study on Ecclesiology and Ethics, John A. Jones

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When Faith Judges History: The Anglo-American Religious and Political Experience, and Public Theology, As Missing Elements in Political and Liberation Theology, Ramón Luzárraga III

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"Let Us Sing to the Lord": The Biblical Odes in the Codex Alexandrinus, James A. Miller

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Nicholas of Lyra's Use of St. Thomas Aquinas' Expositio Super Iob Ad Litteram in His Postilla on Job, Troy P. Pflibsen

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Rethinking Christian Salvation in the Light of Ghandi's Satyagraha, Terrence J. Rynne

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The trinitarian theology of Marius Victorinus: Polemic and exegesis, John T Voelker

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Modern Mormon Use of Patristic Sources to Validate the Utah-Mormon Church, Chris Welborn

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The Challenge of Modern Inter-Orthodox Rapprochement and Reconciliation, Kenneth F. Yossa

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology, Ian Bell

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Moses, Adam and the Glory of the Lord in Ezekiel the Tragedian: On the Roots of a Merkabah Text, Silviu N. Bunta

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Catholic Theology As a Means of Evangelization: The Witness of Francis Joseph Sheed, Christopher M. Carr

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Aphrahat the Persian Sage and the Temple of God: A Study of Early Syriac Theological Anthropology, Stephanie K. Skoyles Jarkins

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God so Loved the World: The Experience of Salvation in the Theological Project of Edward Schillebeeckx, Michael J. Marigliano

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Narrating self, Narrating Other: A Pneumatological Approach to Apophatic Anthropology, Matthew John McKinnon

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The Significance of Bernard Lonergan's Work on Bias for the Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cyril Orji

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The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: the Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan, Deborah Savage

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Feminist-Theological Point of View, Bonnie A. Birk

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A Reexamination of Nathan Scott's Literary Criticism in the Context of David Tracy's Fundamental Theology, William Donald Buhrman

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Personal being: Polanyi, ontology, and Christian theology, Andrew Thomas Grosso

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Solidarity in a Global Age: Bringing Forward the Vision of Populorum Progressio, Mari Rapela Heidt

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The Human Son of God and the Holy Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Incarnational Spirit Christology, S. D. L. Jenkins

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Job As Proto-Apocalypse: Proposing a Unifying Genre, Timothy Jay Johnson

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The Private World As Alienated: Economic Justice in a Culture of Privatized Individualism, Michael D. Lopez-kaley

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Acting (Economic) Persons: Adam Smith and Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II As Sources for Economic Personalism, Megan Maloney

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From Patriarch to the Youth: The Metatron Tradition in 2 Enoch, Andrei A. Orlov

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The Question of the Church in North American Lutheranism: Toward An Ecclesiology of the Third Article, Cheryl M. Peterson

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"Truly This is the Savior of the World": Christ and Caesar in the Gospel of John, Lance Bryon Richey

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The Vow of Obedience As Decision-Making in Communion: Contributions from Ecclesiology and Psychology, Judith Katherine Schaefer

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The Polemical Context and Background of Hilary's Trinitarian Theology, Mark Weedman

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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The Lukan Kingship Parable: Luke 19:11-27 in Literary Perspective, Garwood P. Anderson

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The Theological Ethics of Contemporary Prophetic Acts, Randall K. Bush

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Incarnational Morality: The Operation of Grace and Personal Conscience in Thomas Aquinas, Virginia Kiernan Dahlberg

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The Development of the Principle of the Just Wage in official Catholic Social Teaching, William Fellows