The Theology Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations authored by Marquette University's Theology Department doctoral students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Stanley Hauerwas' Critique of System in Theology in the Interests of the Church's Narrative and Practice, Gale Z. Heide
Deus Caritas Est: Trinitarian Theology and the Humility of the Spirit, David Liberto
The Biblical-Experimental Foundations of Jonathan Edwards' Theology of Religious Experience, 1720-1723, Karin Spieckeer Stetina
Jonathan Edwards' Social Augustinian Trinitarianism: A Criticism of and An Alternative to Recent Interpretations, Steven M. Studebaker
The Unity of Dulia and Latria: Karl Rahner's Philosophy and Theology As a Resource for a Theology of Intercession, Patricia A. Sullivan
The Apologetic and Dogmatic Dimensions of Twentieth-Century Roman Catholic Ecclesiology: A Critical Assessment, Margaret E. Taylor-Ulizio
Distributive Justice and the Free Market: Toward a Reformed Theological-Economic Approach, Kent A. Van Til
The Theology and Praxis of Heribert Mühlen: A New Profile of the Church, Wolfgang Vondey
The Syriac Acts of Thomas: A Computerized Grammatical Concordance of Acts 1 and 2, John D. Zemler
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
"Songs for My Joy ... Pleadings for My Shame": Coleridge, Divine Revelation and Confessions of An Inquiring Spirit, Jeffrey W. Barbeau
An evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology: Does it function properly?, James Kenton Beilby
Henri de Lubac and Communio: The Significance of His Theology of the Supernatural for An Interpretation of Gaudium et Spes, Robert F. Gotcher
Bridging the Gap: Bringing Needs Discourse to Theological Discussions of Human Need, DesAnne J. Hippe
Union with God and the Holy Spirit: A New Paradigm of Justification, Thomas L. Holtzen
The Earth is the Lord's: The World Council of Churches' Construction of An Institutional Environmental Ethic, 1966-1998, Daniel E. McFee
Christian Story, Christian Self: A Journey to the Self through Paul's Story of the Cross, John L. Meech
The Eucharist As the Center of Theology: A Comparative Study, Richard A. Nicholas
The Eucharist as the center of theology: A comparative study, Richard Anthony Nicholas
"Certainty" with "Power to the Contrary": Nathaniel William Taylor (1786-1858) on the Will, Jason A. Nicholls
"One-step" Salvation: The Knowledge of God and Faith in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards, Richard Martin Weber
The Roman Catholic Church and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Voices Yet Unheard in a Listening World, Jozef D. Zalot
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The Spirit in the Drama: Balthasar's Theo-Drama and the Relationship between the Son and the Spirit, Adrian D. Day
Concrete Encounter with the Poor: Rahner as a Resource for Explaining Gutierrez's Notion of Solidarity, James P. Keane
Concrete Encounter with the Poor: Rahner As a Resource for Explaining Gutiérrez's Notion of Solidarity, James P. Keane
Pneumatology and Asceticism in Basil of Caesarea: Roots and Influence to 381, Harriet A. Luckman
The Spirit and Suffering in Luke-Acts: Implications for a Pentecostal Pneumatology, Martin William Mittelstadt
The Origins and Development of the Triadic Structure of Faith in H. Richard Niebuhr: A Study of the Kantian and Pragmatic Background of Niebuhr's Thought, Joseph S. Pagano
The Origins and Development of the Triadic Structure of Faith in H. Richard Niebuhr: A Study of the Kantian and Pragmatic Background of Niebuhr's Thought, Joseph S. Pagano
Thomas and Tatian: The relationship between the "Gospel of Thomas" and the "Diatessaron", Nicholas Perrin
Human Rights and Ecological Duties in Buddhism and Roman Catholicism: Test Case for a Global Ethic, Keith Soko
Human Rights and Ecological Duties in Buddhism and Roman Catholicism: Test Case for a Global Ethic, Keith James Soko
Martin Luther's Incarnational Theology: The Intentions and Consequences of Martin Luther's Christology in His Late Disputations, Melvin G. Vance
Homo in spe: Towards An Eschatological Anthropology in Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann, James L. Wakefield
Homo in Spe: Towards an Eschatological Anthropology in Conversation with Juergen Moltmann, James Lowell Wakefield
Stephen and the angel: A typological reading of the story of Stephen in the Acts of the Apostles, Stephen R Wiest
Stephen and the Angel: a Typological Reading of the Story of Stephen in the Acts of the Apostles, Stephen R. Wiest
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
"Where the Eagles Are Gathered": The Deliverance of the Elect in Lukan Eschatology, Steven Leonard Bridge
The Public and Political Character of Postliberal Theology, Richard Dean Crane
The Church, for and Against the Nation, in the Thought of William Temple, Wendy Dackson
The Women's Ordination Conference (1975-1994): An Introduction to a Movement, Laurie Wright Gary
Lindbeck on the Catholicity of the Church: The Problem of Foundationalism and Antirealism in George A. Lindbeck's Ecumenical Methodology, Robert Charles Greer
Alexander Campbell's Church-State Separatism As a Defining and Limiting Factor in His Anti-Catholic Activity, Keith Brian Huey
The Eschatology of Bernard of Clairvaux, James G. Kroemer
Openness As Gift: Subject and Other in Postmodern Context: A Study of Lonergan and Levinas, Michele Saracino
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Lyman Beecher's (1775-1863) Theological lecture Notes, Volume I Edited with Introduction and Critical Notes, Roy C. Backus
A Framework for Christian Anthropology: A Study of Lonergan's Self-Transcending Subject and Kegan's Evolving Self, Thomas Robert Berchmans
Baptist Social Christianity in Victorian England: The Individual and Society in the Theology of Dr. John Clifford, Matthew E. Brandt
Spirituality As Natural Theology: A Lonerganian Approach, Robert Anthony Condly
Heaven Connected to Earth: Toward A Balance of Personal and Social Eschatology in Wesleyan Theology, Ronald R. Creasman
The Catholic press response to nativism in the 1850s and 1920s, Candace A. Czernicki
The Antithesis of the Ages: Torah and Christ in Paul, Stephan K. Davis
John Hick's Pluralist Philosophy of World Religions: An Exposition and Response, Paul Rhodes Eddy
"Astonished At His Teaching": The Structure and Authority of Jesus' Sayings in the Gospel of Mark, Sara Fletcher Harding
Hans Urs von Balthasar and Protestantism: The Ecumenical Implications of His Theological Style, Rodney A. Howsare
"Life' in Johannine Writings: A Study of the Meaning of 'Life' for the Johannine Community, David Asonye Ihenacho
In Their Own Words: Character Speech in the Gospel of Luke, Karl Allen Kuhn
Essence, Action and Anticipation in Wolfhart Pannenberg's Doctrine of the Trinity, Todd S. LaBute
Luther and Theosis: Deification in the Theology of Martin Luther, Paul Lehninger
The Viability of a Sacrificial Theology of Atonement, Thomas E. Long
The Historical Origins of the Presuppositional Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til, Timothy I. McConnel
Reading John in Delos: The Genres of the Johannine Farewell, Donald J. Rappé
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
St. Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexäemeron and the Joachite Controversy, C. Colt Anderson
From a Broken Covenant to Circumcision of the Heart: Pauline Intertextual Exegesis in Romans 2, 17-29, Timothy W. Berkley
Wisdom in the Gospels of Thomas and John, Bea Dorsey
The Gospel is Not Shameful: The Argumentative Structure of Romans in the Light of Classical Rhetoric, Steven E. Enderlein
The Spiritual/temporal Distinction within the Campaign for Human Development: A Theological and Philosophical Analysis, Lawrence J. Engel
Theological Anthropology, Self-Interest and Economic Justice in Contemporary Critiques of Capitalism, Richard F. Goetz
That We May Know and Understand: Gospel Tradition in the Apocalypse of Peter, Robert C. Helmer
The Kenosis of God and Reverence for the Particular: A Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann, Jane E. Linahan
The Primacy of Religious Disposition in James M. Gustafson's Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Shawn M. McCauley Welch
Rahner, Self, and God: the Question of the Cartesian Ego in the Theology of Karl Rahner, Cheryl Ann Riggs
Retrieving the Importance of Social Justice Themes in the Pastoral Letters of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, 1919-1961, David P. Schultz
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
"And Scripture Cannot Be Broken": The Form and Function of the Early Christian Testimonia Collections, Martin C. Albl
Blessed Assurance?: Reason and Certainty of Knowledge of God in Karl Barth and Hans Küng, Paul Casner
Conscience and the Holy Spirit: A Theological Anthropology Applied to Mental Health Care Ethics, Mark E. Ginter
Mysticism and Contemplation in the Life and Teaching of Albert Benjamin Simpson, Clyde McLean Glass
Towards a Moral Theology of Christian Humanism: An Inquiry into the Writings of Saint Thomas More, William G. Hansen
The Place of John Wyclif's Eucharistic Theology within the Catholic Tradition: Logicae Scripturae and Sensus Catholicus, Ian Christopher Levy
Walter Rauschenbusch As Preacher: The Development of His Social Thought As Expressed in His Sermons from 1886-1897, Heinz D. Rossol
The Idea of Christendom in the Writings of Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Barry H. Sargent
Luke 5:1-11: The Call and Commission of Simon Peter, Daniel John Scholz
The Transcendental Christology of Karl Rahner: A Resource for Catholic Social Teaching?, Paulette Skiba
Life, Movement and Being: William Porcher DuBose's Christology, Soteriology, and Ecclesiology, Robert Boak Slocum
Towards a Theological Assessment of the Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, Gladstone H. Stevens III
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The Word of God and Social Responsibility in the Lutheran Church in the United States of America, Roger H. Black
The Word of God and Social Responsibility in the Lutheran Church in the United States of America, Roger H. Black
Sojourners: Christians in the World in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Richard A. Collins
Moral Character and Moral Certainty: The Subjective State of the Soul and J.G. Machen's Critique of Theological Liberalism, Paul Kjoss Helseth
In Public Defense of the Ministry of Moses: Luther's Enarratio on Psalm 90, 1534-1535, Gordon L. Isaac
Rhyme and Reason in Erasmus' 1516 Greek Text of Revelation 22:16-21, Edward F. Maniscalco
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles (NHC 6.1): Allegory, Ascent and Ministry in the Wake of the Decian Persecution, Andrea Lorenzo Molinari
The Impact of the Historicity Debates Over the Biblical Narratives Upon 20th-Century American Catholic Biblical Scholarship, Patrick J. Russell
In All Senses of the Word: The Authority of Scripture in Contemporary Theology, Charles D. Valenti-Hein
The Source of Justification: Kant's Concept of Radical Evil in Light of Luther's Salvation by Grace through Faith, Mark Frederick Wilms
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Jonah As Subversive Literature?: The Book of Jonah and Its Biblical Context, Thomas M. Bolin
An Analysis of the Relationship between Personal and Social Sin within the Development of Gregory Baum's Theology, Margaret L. Causey
Paul As Model: The Rhetoric and Old Testament Background of Philippians 3:1-4:1, Bruce L. Fields
The Particularity of Jesus Christ: An Analysis of Revelation in the Theologies of Karl Barth and Edward Schillebeeckx, Scott D. Geis
Kinship by Covenant: A Biblical Theological Study of Covenant Types and Texts in the Old and New Testaments, Scott Walker Hahn
Jewish and Christian Relations in the Life and Thought of Hugh of St. Victor, Rebecca Moore