The Theology Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations authored by Marquette University's Theology Department doctoral students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Universality of God in Amo’s Oracles and Creation: A Historical-Critical Approach within a Catholic Context, Alexandra Bochte
Trinitarian Theology as a Resource for the Theology of Education, Anne Bullock
Existential Thomism and the Ecstasy of the Sexed Body, Kathleen Cavender-McCoy
Ecumenical Traditions: Byzantine and Franciscan Theology in Dialogue, Gino G. Grivetti
Person and Society: The Trinitarian Anthropology of Henri de Lubac, Sara Hulse
Moved to Compassion: Envisioning Parables in the Gospel of Luke, Patrick J. O'Kernick
In the Power of the Spirit: Toward an Agapeic Ethic of Spirit-Baptism, Caroline Rose Redick
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Ethical Functions of Deuteronomic Laws in Early Second Temple Judaism, Paul Cizek
Finding Paul in the Fourth Gospel: John 8 and the Reception of the Apostle to the Gentiles, Jason Hitchcock
“Now I Will Recall the Works of God”: Allusion and Intertextuality in Sirach 42:15-43:33, Gary Patrick Klump
The Human Person Fully Alive: The Transformation of the Body, Brain, Mind, and Soul of Humanity in the Encounter with the Divinity, Christopher Krall
Maximus the Confessor in Aquinas's Christology, Corey John Stephan
Rewriting the Ending: Malachi's Threat and the Destruction of the Temple in the Gospel of Mark, John Michael Strachan
Behold the Beasts Beside You: The Adaptation and Alteration of Animals in LXX-Job, James Wykes
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Biased in a World of Bias: A Cognitive and Spiritual Approach to Knowing Racial Justice, Stephen Calme
Where is Wisdom? Privileging Perspectives in the Book of Job, Israel McGrew
Being and Naming God: Essence and Energies in St. Gregory Palamas, Tikhon Alexander Pino
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Reception of the Economic Social Teaching of Gaudium et Spes in the United States from 1965-2005, David Daniel Archdibald
Unity and Catholicity in Christ: The Ecclesiology of Francisco Suárez, S.J., Eric DeMeuse
Filled with 'The Fullness of the Gifts of God': Towards a Pneumatic Theosis, Kirsten Guidero
Cathedrals of the Mind: Theological Method and Speculative Renewal in Trinitarian Theology, Ryan Hemmer
Fire in the Bread, Life in the Body: The Pneumatology of Ephrem the Syrian, David Kiger
Looks That Kill: White Power, Christianity, and the Occlusion of Justice, Wesley Sutermeister
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Beyond Slavery: Christian Theology and Rehabilitation from Human Trafficking, Christopher Michael Gooding
The Ambiguity of Being: Medieval and Modern Cooperation on the Problem of the Supernatural, Jonathan Robert Heaps
Widow As the Altar of God: Retrieving Ancient Sources for Contemporary Discussions on Christian Discipleship, Lisa Marin Moore
The New Day of Atonement: A Matthean Typology, Hans Moscicke
"The Present Evil Age": The Origin and Persistence of Evil in Galatians, Tyler Allen Stewart
A Sweet Influence: St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Reception of Dionysian Hierarchy, Luke Vittorio Togni
Transforming the Foundation: Lonergan's Transposition of Aquinas' Notion of Wisdom, Juliana Vazquez Krivsky
Infideles Et Philosophi: Assent, Untruth, and Natural Knowledge of the Simple God, Jeffrey M. Walkey
Confessing Characters: Coming to Faith in the Gospel of John, Dominic Zappia
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Eighteenth-Century Forerunners of Vatican II: Early Modern Catholic Reform and the Synod of Pistoia, Shaun London Blanchard
The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Literature, Nicholas Andrew Elder
Imagining Demons in Post-Byzantine Jerusalem: John of Damascus and the Consolidation of Classical Christian Demonology, Nathaniel Ogden Kidd
Hoc Est Sacrificium Laudis: The Influence of Hebrews on the Origin, Structure, and Theology of the Roman Canon Missae, Matthew S. C. Olver
Reconciling Universal Salvation and Freedom of Choice in Origen of Alexandria, Lee W. Sytsma
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church, J. D. Atkins
The Two Goats: A Christian Yom Kippur Soteriology, Richard Barry
Exodus as New Creation, Israel as Foundling: Stories in the History of an Idea, Christopher Evangelos John Brenna
Christus Exemplar: the Politics of Virtue in Lactantius, Jason Matthew Gehrke
Image and Virtue in Ambrose of Milan, Andrew Miles Harmon
A God Worth Worshiping: Toward a Critical Race Theology, Duane Terrence Loynes Sr.
The Cry of the Poor: Anthropology of Suffering and Justice in Health Care From a Latin American Liberation Approach, Alexandre Andrade Martins
The First Thing Andrew Did' [John 1:41]: Readers As Witnesses in the Fourth Gospel, Mark L. Trump
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Creator Spirit, Spirit of Grace: Trinitarian Dimensions of a Charitological Pneumatology, Wesley Scott Biddy
The Economic Trinity: Communion with the Triune God in a Market Economy, David Glenn Butner Jr.
Judgment, Justification, and the Faith Event in Romans, Raymond Foyer
Primeval History According to Paul: "In Adam" and "In Christ" in Romans, Timothy A. Gabrielson
Scripture in History: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible, Joseph K. Gordon
Gary Dorrien, Stanley Hauerwas, Rowan Williams, and the Theological Transformation of Sovereignties, David Wade Horstkoetter
The Mystical and Political Body: Christian Identity in the Theology of Karl Rahner, Erin Kidd
Love the Stranger for You were Strangers: The Development of a Biblical Literary Theme and Motif, Helga Kisler
Theo-Dramatic Ethics: A Balthasarian Approach to Moral Formation, Andrew John Kuzma
No Sympathy for the Devil: The Significance of Demons in John Chrysostom's Soteriology, Samantha Lynn Miller
Truly Human, Fully Divine: The Kenotic Christ of Thomas Aquinas, Gregorio Montejo
Didymus the Blind, Origen, and the Trinity, Kellen Plaxco
ITE, MISSA EST! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, Eugene Richard Schlesinger
From Modes of Production to the Resurrection of the Body: A Labor Theory of Revolutionary Subjectivity & Religious Ideas, Benjamin Suriano
Blinded Eyes and Hardened Hearts: Intra-Jewish Critique in the Gospel of John, Nathan Thiel
Monarchianism and Origen's Early Trinitarian Theology, Stephen Edward Waers
Sanctification as Virtue and Mission: The Politics of Holiness, Nathan Willowby
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Word Became Flesh: An Exploratory Essay on Jesus’s Particularity and Nonhuman Animals, Andy Alexis-Baker
RENOVATIO: Martin Luther's Augustinian Theology of Holiness (1515/16 and 1535-46), Phillip L. Anderas
Models of Conversion in American Evangelicalism: Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge and Old Princeton, and Charles Finney, Mark B. Chapman
The Kingdom of God and the Holy Spirit: Eschatology and Pneumatology in the Vineyard Movement, Douglas R. Erickson
The All-Embracing Frame: Distance in the Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Christopher Hadley
"Make My Joy Complete": The Price of Partnership in the Letter of Paul to the Philippians, Mark Avery Jennings
The Unsettled Church: The Search for Identity and Relevance in the Ecclesiologies of Nicholas Healy, Ephraim Radner, and Darrell Guder, Emanuel D. Naydenov
Seeing Two Worlds: The Eschatological Anthropology of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Palliative Care's Sacramental and Liturgical Foundations: Healthcare Formed by Faith, Hope, and Love, Darren M. Henson
"now These Things Happened As Examples For Us" (1 Cor. 10:6):the Biblical-Narrative Depiction Of Human Sinfulness, Stephen Frederick Jenks
Love For God And Earth: Ecospirituality In The Theologies Of Sallie Mcfague And Leonardo Boff, Rebecca A. Meier-Rao
Stabilitas In Congregatione: The Benedictine Evangelization Of America In The Life And Thought Of Martin Marty, O.s.b., Paul Gregory Monson
The Word Is An Angel Of The Mind: Angelic And Temple Imagery In The Theology Of John Mansur, The Damascene., Elijah Nicolas Mueller
"heavenly Theologians": The Place Of Angels In The Theology Of Martin Luther, Christopher J. Samuel
"a Spreading And Abiding Hope": A. J. Conyers And Evangelical Theopolitical Imagination, Jacob Shatzer
Receptive Ecumenism And Justification: Roman Catholic And Reformed Doctrine In Contemporary Context, Sarah Timmer
Mary's Fertility As The Model Of The Ascetical Life In Ephrem The Syrian's Hymns Of The Nativity, Michelle Weedman
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Church as Symbolic Mediation: Revelation Ecclesiology in the Theology of Avery Dulles, S.J., Abraham B. Fisher
Christological Name Theology in three Second Century communities, Michael D. Harris
Transcending Subjects: Hegel After Augustine, an Essay on Political Theology, Geoffrey J.D. Holsclaw
Circumcision of the Spirit in the Soteriology of Cyril of Alexandria, Jonathan Stephen Morgan
Emerging in the Image of God: From Evolution to Ethics in a Second Naïveté Understanding of Christian Anthropology, Jason Paul Roberts
Isaac of Nineveh's Contribution to Syriac Theology: An Eschatological Reworking of Greek Anthropology, Jason Scully
Between Eden and Egypt: Echoes of the Garden Narrative in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers, Brian Osborne Sigmon
Rediscovering Sabbath: Hebrew Social Thought And Its Contribution To Black Theology's Vision For America, Christopher Taylor Spotts
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Opening First-World Catholic Theology to Third-World Ecofeminism: Aruna Gnanadason and Johann B. Metz in Dialogue, Gretchen Baumgardt
Love and Lonergan's Cognitional-Intentional Anthropology: An Inquiry on the Question of a "Fifth Level of Consciousness", Jeremy Blackwood
Andrew G. Grutka, First Bishop of the Diocese of Gary, Indiana (1957 to 1984): "Where There is Charity, There is God.", Anthony Bonta
The Election Controversy Among Lutherans in the Twentieth Century: An Examination of the Underlying Problems, John M. Brenner
Yves Congar, O.P.: Ecumenist of the Twentieth Century, Paul Raymond Caldwell
Theo-Poetics: Figure and Metaphysics in the Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Anne Carpenter
Sacrament and Eschatological Fulfillment in Henri de Lubac's Theology of History, Joseph Flipper
Spirit and Flesh: On the Significance of the Reformed Doctrine of the Lord's Supper for Pneumatology, Christopher Ganski
A Comparison of the Kenotic Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Sergei Bulgakov, Katy Leamy
Ontological Subordination in Novatian of Rome's Theology of the Son, Daniel Lloyd
Dominus Mortis: Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ, David Luy
The Church and the Mediation of Grace: A Reformed Perspective on Ordained Ministry and the Threefold Office of Christ, Michael Joe Matossian