The Theology Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations authored by Marquette University's Theology Department doctoral students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
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
From Cleansed Lepers to Cleansed Hearts: The Developing Meaning of Katharizo in Luke-Acts, Pamela Shellberg
The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Question of Its Development, Vasilije Vranic
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
"Poor Maggot-Sack that I Am": The Human Body in the Theology of Martin Luther, Charles Lloyd Cortright
Intersex and Imago: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Postmodern Theological Anthropology, Megan K. DeFranza
Qoheleth: An Anti-apocalyptic Genre for a Message of Joy, Jerome Douglas
Renaming Abraham's Children: Election, Ethnicity and the Interpretation of Scripture in Romans 9, Robert Bruce Foster
Lex Orandi, Lex Legendi: A Correlation of the Roman Canon and the Fourfold Sense of Scripture, Matthew Thomas Gerlach
The Way to God or God's Way to Us: The Theologies of Edward Farley and James McClendon in Critical Dialogue, Thomas W. Harrington
Early Christian Sex Change. The Ascetical Context of "Being Made Male" in Early Christianity, Jennifer Lynne Henery
The Trinitarian Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons, Jackson Jay Lashier
Renewing a Catholic Theology of Marriage through a Common Way of Life: Consonance with Vowed Religious Life-in-Community, Kent Lasnoski
Mercy, Justice, and Politics: John Paul II on Capital Punishment, Kevin E. Miller
The Assumption of All Humanity in Saint Hilary of Poitiers' Tractatus super Psalmos, Ellen Scully
Full, Conscious, and Active Participation: The Laity as Ecclesial Subjects in an Ecclesiology Informed by Bernard Lonergan, Mary Utzerath
The Metaphysics and Intellective Psychology in the Natural Desire for Seeing God: Henri de Lubac and Neo-Scholasticism, Christine Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Chosen Nation: Biblical Theopolitics and the Problem of American Christian Nationalism, Braden P. Anderson
The Church's Unity and Authority: Augustine's Effort to Convert the Donatists, Gavril Andreicut
Word and Faith in the Formation of Christian Existence: A Study in Gerhard Ebeling's Rejection of the Joint Declaration, Scott A. Celsor
The Noetic Paschal Anthropos: Genesis 1:27 and the Theology of the Divine Image in Early Paschal Literature, Dragos Andrei Giulea
"The People Believe That He Has Risen from the Dead": The Gospel of Peter and Early Christian Apologetics, Timothy Henderson
The Septuagintal Isaian Use of Nomos in the Lukan Presentation Narrative, Mark Walter Koehne
The Body as Symbol: Bringing Together Theories of Sex/Gender and Race for Theological Discourse, Patricia Lewis
An Ecclesiology of Charisms in the Theology of Francis A. Sullivan, Michael Anthony Novak
The Enochic Watchers' Template and the Gospel of Matthew, Amy Elizabeth Richter
Visionary Ascents of Moses in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: Apocalyptic Motifs and the Growth of Visionary Moses Tradition, Kristine Johnson Ruffatto
Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study, Travis D. Stolz
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Theology of the Holy Spirit According to Irenaeus of Lyons, Anthony A. Briggman
Wisdom Editing in the Book of Psalms: Vocabulary, Themes, and Structures, Steven Dunn
The Self-Donation of God: Gerhard Forde and the Question of Atonement in the Lutheran Tradition, Jack Kilcrease
Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account, Louis William Oliverio Jr.
Inverberation - The Idiom of "God Among Us:" Karl Barth's Filial-Pneumatology as the Basic Structure of Theology, Aaron T. Smith
Pentecostal Theology According to the Theologians: An Introduction to the Theological Methods of Pentecostal Systematic Theologians, Christopher Adam Stephenson
"It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us": Toward a Feminist Pneumatological Argument for Women in Ministry, Lisa P. Stephenson
Using "Chaos" in Articulating the Relationship of God and Creation in God's Creative Activity, Eric Michael Vail
Beyond Stewardship: Toward an Agapeic Environmental Ethic, Christopher J. Vena
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
John Courtney Murray, S.J., and Incarnational Humanism, Richard S. Arndt
What the Law Cannot Do: Samuel DeWitt Proctor's Theological Response to An American Crisis, 1945-1997, Adam L. Bond
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
The Breaking of the Tablets: A Comparison of the Egyptian Execration Ritual to Exodus 32:19 and Jeremiah 19, Michael S. Donahou
The Mother of Christ As a Symbol of Christian Unity: A Case Study for Ecumenical Dialogue, Maura E. Hearden
Re-reading Yoder in Order to Conscientiously Engage Technology through the Practices of the Church, Paul C. Heidebrecht
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
"Broken Nets": Augustine, Schisms and Rejuvenating Councils in North Africa, Fortunate Ojiako
The Sources of Ecclesiastes: The "Epic of Gilgamesh" as a Source Document for Ecclesiastes, Timothy Nalin Senapatiratne
The Sources of Ecclesiastes: The Epic of Gilgamesh As a Source Document for Ecclesiastes, Timothy Nalin Senapatiratne
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
Composition and Redaction in the Coptic Gospel of Mary, Ardyth L. Bass
The Angelomorphic Spirit in Early Christianity: Scripture and theology in Clement of Alexandria's Eclogae Propheticae and Adumbrationes, Bogdan G. Bucur
Roman Catholic social bioethics critiques secular bioethics: Fetal tissue research and vulnerable populations, Shawnee M Daniels-Sykes
Roman Catholic Social Bioethics Critiques Secular Bioethics: Fetal Tissue Research and Vulnerable Populations, Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes
The Role of Human Creativity in the Theological Anthropology of Centesimus Annus and Its Implications for Christian Economic Practices, Kari-Shane Davis
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
Matthew's Vision: The Unity of the Formula Citations in Matt 1:1-4:16, Jeremy R. Holmes
Prophetic Catholicism: Appropriating John Courtney Murray, S.J., in Postmodern America, Jennifer Laske
Encounter - call - mission: Conversion in the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Daniel W McGuire
The Harmony between the Right to Private Property and the Call to Solidarity in Modern Catholic Social Teaching, Constance J. Nielsen
Intersecting Narratives: The Quest for Identity in a Post-Traditional World and the Prophetic Message of Franz Kafka, Matthew T. Powell
ruah YHWH, ruah 'elohim: A case for literary and theological distinction in the Deuteronomistic History, John M Ragsdale
The Heart of Rahner: An Analysis of Karl Rahner's Theology Using Andrew Tallon's Theory of Triune Consciousness, Heidi Russell
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
The Gate of Heaven Opens to the Trinity: The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne von Speyr, Matthew Lewis Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Dumitru Staniloae and Its Significance for Contemporary Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue, Radu Bordeianu
A Critical Assessment of Sacrament and Ethics in the Thought of Louis-Marie Chauvet, Timothy M. Brunk
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
Tradition in Transformation: The Celebration of the Lord's Supper in the Reformed Church in America, Christopher Dorn
The Costly Witness of the Church: The World Council of Churches' Study on Ecclesiology and Ethics, John A. Jones
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
"Let Us Sing to the Lord": The Biblical Odes in the Codex Alexandrinus, James A. Miller
Nicholas of Lyra's Use of St. Thomas Aquinas' Expositio Super Iob Ad Litteram in His Postilla on Job, Troy P. Pflibsen
Rethinking Christian Salvation in the Light of Ghandi's Satyagraha, Terrence J. Rynne
The trinitarian theology of Marius Victorinus: Polemic and exegesis, John T Voelker
Modern Mormon Use of Patristic Sources to Validate the Utah-Mormon Church, Chris Welborn
The Challenge of Modern Inter-Orthodox Rapprochement and Reconciliation, Kenneth F. Yossa
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology, Ian Bell
Moses, Adam and the Glory of the Lord in Ezekiel the Tragedian: On the Roots of a Merkabah Text, Silviu N. Bunta
Catholic Theology As a Means of Evangelization: The Witness of Francis Joseph Sheed, Christopher M. Carr
Aphrahat the Persian Sage and the Temple of God: A Study of Early Syriac Theological Anthropology, Stephanie K. Skoyles Jarkins
God so Loved the World: The Experience of Salvation in the Theological Project of Edward Schillebeeckx, Michael J. Marigliano
Narrating self, Narrating Other: A Pneumatological Approach to Apophatic Anthropology, Matthew John McKinnon
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
Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Feminist-Theological Point of View, Bonnie A. Birk
A Reexamination of Nathan Scott's Literary Criticism in the Context of David Tracy's Fundamental Theology, William Donald Buhrman
Personal being: Polanyi, ontology, and Christian theology, Andrew Thomas Grosso
Solidarity in a Global Age: Bringing Forward the Vision of Populorum Progressio, Mari Rapela Heidt
The Human Son of God and the Holy Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Incarnational Spirit Christology, S. D. L. Jenkins
Job As Proto-Apocalypse: Proposing a Unifying Genre, Timothy Jay Johnson
The Private World As Alienated: Economic Justice in a Culture of Privatized Individualism, Michael D. Lopez-kaley
Acting (Economic) Persons: Adam Smith and Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II As Sources for Economic Personalism, Megan Maloney
From Patriarch to the Youth: The Metatron Tradition in 2 Enoch, Andrei A. Orlov
The Question of the Church in North American Lutheranism: Toward An Ecclesiology of the Third Article, Cheryl M. Peterson
"Truly This is the Savior of the World": Christ and Caesar in the Gospel of John, Lance Bryon Richey
The Vow of Obedience As Decision-Making in Communion: Contributions from Ecclesiology and Psychology, Judith Katherine Schaefer
The Polemical Context and Background of Hilary's Trinitarian Theology, Mark Weedman
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Lukan Kingship Parable: Luke 19:11-27 in Literary Perspective, Garwood P. Anderson
The Theological Ethics of Contemporary Prophetic Acts, Randall K. Bush