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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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The Beauty of a Good Appetite in a Social Media Age, Megan Heeder

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Place in Luke-Acts: A Geocritical Reading of Synagogue, House, and Temple, Daniel Mueller

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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The Universality of God in Amo’s Oracles and Creation: A Historical-Critical Approach within a Catholic Context, Alexandra Bochte

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Trinitarian Theology as a Resource for the Theology of Education, Anne Bullock

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Existential Thomism and the Ecstasy of the Sexed Body, Kathleen Cavender-McCoy

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Ecumenical Traditions: Byzantine and Franciscan Theology in Dialogue, Gino G. Grivetti

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Person and Society: The Trinitarian Anthropology of Henri de Lubac, Sara Hulse

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MIRACLES AND LAWS OF SCIENCE: INSIGHTS FOR CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUE ON DIVINE ACTION FROM SAID NURSI AND THOMAS AQUINAS, Edmund Michael Lazzari

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Moved to Compassion: Envisioning Parables in the Gospel of Luke, Patrick J. O'Kernick

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In the Power of the Spirit: Toward an Agapeic Ethic of Spirit-Baptism, Caroline Rose Redick

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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The Ethical Functions of Deuteronomic Laws in Early Second Temple Judaism, Paul Cizek

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Finding Paul in the Fourth Gospel: John 8 and the Reception of the Apostle to the Gentiles, Jason Hitchcock

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“Now I Will Recall the Works of God”: Allusion and Intertextuality in Sirach 42:15-43:33, Gary Patrick Klump

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The Human Person Fully Alive: The Transformation of the Body, Brain, Mind, and Soul of Humanity in the Encounter with the Divinity, Christopher Krall

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Maximus the Confessor in Aquinas's Christology, Corey John Stephan

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Rewriting the Ending: Malachi's Threat and the Destruction of the Temple in the Gospel of Mark, John Michael Strachan

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Behold the Beasts Beside You: The Adaptation and Alteration of Animals in LXX-Job, James Wykes

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Biased in a World of Bias: A Cognitive and Spiritual Approach to Knowing Racial Justice, Stephen Calme

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Where is Wisdom? Privileging Perspectives in the Book of Job, Israel McGrew

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Being and Naming God: Essence and Energies in St. Gregory Palamas, Tikhon Alexander Pino

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Reception of the Economic Social Teaching of Gaudium et Spes in the United States from 1965-2005, David Daniel Archdibald

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Unity and Catholicity in Christ: The Ecclesiology of Francisco Suárez, S.J., Eric DeMeuse

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Filled with 'The Fullness of the Gifts of God': Towards a Pneumatic Theosis, Kirsten Guidero

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Cathedrals of the Mind: Theological Method and Speculative Renewal in Trinitarian Theology, Ryan Hemmer

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Fire in the Bread, Life in the Body: The Pneumatology of Ephrem the Syrian, David Kiger

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Looks That Kill: White Power, Christianity, and the Occlusion of Justice, Wesley Sutermeister

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Beyond Slavery: Christian Theology and Rehabilitation from Human Trafficking, Christopher Michael Gooding

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The Ambiguity of Being: Medieval and Modern Cooperation on the Problem of the Supernatural, Jonathan Robert Heaps

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Widow As the Altar of God: Retrieving Ancient Sources for Contemporary Discussions on Christian Discipleship, Lisa Marin Moore

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The New Day of Atonement: A Matthean Typology, Hans Moscicke

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"The Present Evil Age": The Origin and Persistence of Evil in Galatians, Tyler Allen Stewart

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A Sweet Influence: St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Reception of Dionysian Hierarchy, Luke Vittorio Togni

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Transforming the Foundation: Lonergan's Transposition of Aquinas' Notion of Wisdom, Juliana Vazquez Krivsky

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Infideles Et Philosophi: Assent, Untruth, and Natural Knowledge of the Simple God, Jeffrey M. Walkey

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Confessing Characters: Coming to Faith in the Gospel of John, Dominic Zappia

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Eighteenth-Century Forerunners of Vatican II: Early Modern Catholic Reform and the Synod of Pistoia, Shaun London Blanchard

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The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Literature, Nicholas Andrew Elder

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Imagining Demons in Post-Byzantine Jerusalem: John of Damascus and the Consolidation of Classical Christian Demonology, Nathaniel Ogden Kidd

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Hoc Est Sacrificium Laudis: The Influence of Hebrews on the Origin, Structure, and Theology of the Roman Canon Missae, Matthew S. C. Olver

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Reconciling Universal Salvation and Freedom of Choice in Origen of Alexandria, Lee W. Sytsma

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church, J. D. Atkins

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The Two Goats: A Christian Yom Kippur Soteriology, Richard Barry

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Exodus as New Creation, Israel as Foundling: Stories in the History of an Idea, Christopher Evangelos John Brenna

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Christus Exemplar: the Politics of Virtue in Lactantius, Jason Matthew Gehrke

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Image and Virtue in Ambrose of Milan, Andrew Miles Harmon

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A God Worth Worshiping: Toward a Critical Race Theology, Duane Terrence Loynes Sr.

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The Cry of the Poor: Anthropology of Suffering and Justice in Health Care From a Latin American Liberation Approach, Alexandre Andrade Martins

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The First Thing Andrew Did' [John 1:41]: Readers As Witnesses in the Fourth Gospel, Mark L. Trump

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Creator Spirit, Spirit of Grace: Trinitarian Dimensions of a Charitological Pneumatology, Wesley Scott Biddy

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The Economic Trinity: Communion with the Triune God in a Market Economy, David Glenn Butner Jr.

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Judgment, Justification, and the Faith Event in Romans, Raymond Foyer

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Primeval History According to Paul: "In Adam" and "In Christ" in Romans, Timothy A. Gabrielson

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Scripture in History: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible, Joseph K. Gordon

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Gary Dorrien, Stanley Hauerwas, Rowan Williams, and the Theological Transformation of Sovereignties, David Wade Horstkoetter

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The Mystical and Political Body: Christian Identity in the Theology of Karl Rahner, Erin Kidd

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Love the Stranger for You were Strangers: The Development of a Biblical Literary Theme and Motif, Helga Kisler

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Theo-Dramatic Ethics: A Balthasarian Approach to Moral Formation, Andrew John Kuzma

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No Sympathy for the Devil: The Significance of Demons in John Chrysostom's Soteriology, Samantha Lynn Miller

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Truly Human, Fully Divine: The Kenotic Christ of Thomas Aquinas, Gregorio Montejo

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Didymus the Blind, Origen, and the Trinity, Kellen Plaxco

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ITE, MISSA EST! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, Eugene Richard Schlesinger

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From Modes of Production to the Resurrection of the Body: A Labor Theory of Revolutionary Subjectivity & Religious Ideas, Benjamin Suriano

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Blinded Eyes and Hardened Hearts: Intra-Jewish Critique in the Gospel of John, Nathan Thiel

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Monarchianism and Origen's Early Trinitarian Theology, Stephen Edward Waers

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Sanctification as Virtue and Mission: The Politics of Holiness, Nathan Willowby

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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The Word Became Flesh: An Exploratory Essay on Jesus’s Particularity and Nonhuman Animals, Andy Alexis-Baker

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RENOVATIO: Martin Luther's Augustinian Theology of Holiness (1515/16 and 1535-46), Phillip L. Anderas

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Models of Conversion in American Evangelicalism: Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge and Old Princeton, and Charles Finney, Mark B. Chapman

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The Kingdom of God and the Holy Spirit: Eschatology and Pneumatology in the Vineyard Movement, Douglas R. Erickson

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The All-Embracing Frame: Distance in the Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Christopher Hadley

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"Make My Joy Complete": The Price of Partnership in the Letter of Paul to the Philippians, Mark Avery Jennings

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The Unsettled Church: The Search for Identity and Relevance in the Ecclesiologies of Nicholas Healy, Ephraim Radner, and Darrell Guder, Emanuel D. Naydenov

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Seeing Two Worlds: The Eschatological Anthropology of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, Jakob Karl Rinderknecht

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Palliative Care's Sacramental and Liturgical Foundations: Healthcare Formed by Faith, Hope, and Love, Darren M. Henson

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"Now These Things Happened As Examples For Us" (1 Cor. 10:6):the Biblical-Narrative Depiction Of Human Sinfulness, Stephen Frederick Jenks

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Love For God And Earth: Ecospirituality In The Theologies Of Sallie Mcfague And Leonardo Boff, Rebecca A. Meier-Rao

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Stabilitas In Congregatione: The Benedictine Evangelization Of America In The Life And Thought Of Martin Marty, O.s.b., Paul Gregory Monson

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The Word Is An Angel Of The Mind: Angelic And Temple Imagery In The Theology Of John Mansur, The Damascene., Elijah Nicolas Mueller

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"heavenly Theologians": The Place Of Angels In The Theology Of Martin Luther, Christopher J. Samuel

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"a Spreading And Abiding Hope": A. J. Conyers And Evangelical Theopolitical Imagination, Jacob Shatzer

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Receptive Ecumenism And Justification: Roman Catholic And Reformed Doctrine In Contemporary Context, Sarah Timmer

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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

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The Church as Symbolic Mediation: Revelation Ecclesiology in the Theology of Avery Dulles, S.J., Abraham B. Fisher

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Christological Name Theology in three Second Century communities, Michael D. Harris

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Transcending Subjects: Hegel After Augustine, an Essay on Political Theology, Geoffrey J.D. Holsclaw

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Circumcision of the Spirit in the Soteriology of Cyril of Alexandria, Jonathan Stephen Morgan

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Toward a Renewed Theological Framework of Catholic Racial Justice: A Vision Inspired by the Life and Writings of Dr. Arthur Grand Pré Falls, Lincoln Rice

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Emerging in the Image of God: From Evolution to Ethics in a Second Naïveté Understanding of Christian Anthropology, Jason Paul Roberts

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Isaac of Nineveh's Contribution to Syriac Theology: An Eschatological Reworking of Greek Anthropology, Jason Scully

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Between Eden and Egypt: Echoes of the Garden Narrative in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers, Brian Osborne Sigmon

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Rediscovering Sabbath: Hebrew Social Thought And Its Contribution To Black Theology's Vision For America, Christopher Taylor Spotts

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Opening First-World Catholic Theology to Third-World Ecofeminism: Aruna Gnanadason and Johann B. Metz in Dialogue, Gretchen Baumgardt

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Love and Lonergan's Cognitional-Intentional Anthropology: An Inquiry on the Question of a "Fifth Level of Consciousness", Jeremy Blackwood

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Andrew G. Grutka, First Bishop of the Diocese of Gary, Indiana (1957 to 1984): "Where There is Charity, There is God.", Anthony Bonta

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The Election Controversy Among Lutherans in the Twentieth Century: An Examination of the Underlying Problems, John M. Brenner

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Yves Congar, O.P.: Ecumenist of the Twentieth Century, Paul Raymond Caldwell

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Theo-Poetics: Figure and Metaphysics in the Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Anne Carpenter

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Sacrament and Eschatological Fulfillment in Henri de Lubac's Theology of History, Joseph Flipper

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Spirit and Flesh: On the Significance of the Reformed Doctrine of the Lord's Supper for Pneumatology, Christopher Ganski

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A Comparison of the Kenotic Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Sergei Bulgakov, Katy Leamy