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 The Theological School : Doctor of Philosophy
    

2024

Jennifer Maidrand
Excavating Promised Land: The Geopolitics of Scripturalization in Palestine-Israel

Kelsey E. Wallace
Remembering the Future: Exodus, Science Fiction, and the Strategies of Memory

2023

Lisa Asedillo Cunningham
Decolonial Hope as Praxis: Pedagogical Strategies of Freedom in the Philippines

Simeiqi He
A Post-Critical Moral Theology of Marriage

Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo
The Serpent's Syllabus: Reading Genesis 2:4-4:2 Towards a Queer, African(a) Gnosis

Donna R Matteis
Betraying Gradualist White Christian Social Ethics: An Ethics of Rupture

Susan Woolever
Bearing Witness: Pregnant Teens, Hagar, and Christian Social Ethical Responses

2022

Desmond Coleman
Alchemy and Blackness

Walter Luke Grote
The Self That Therefore I Am Not: Jacques Lacan, Zen Buddhism, and the Practice of Subjectivity

Dong Sung Kim
Deuteronomistic Unhistory: Politics of Time, Affect, and Nationhood in Judges' Narrative World

HyunHui Kim
Relational Realism and Theopolitics: A Post-Oppositional Theology of Social Identities

Seong Hyun Lee
The Power of Mature Communal Empathy: Responding to Sexual Violence in Faith Communities

Rory D McEntee
The Liminality of Democracy: Towards a Beloved Community of Religious Diversity

Lauren D. Sawyer
I Stumbled/I Caused You to Stumble: White Girls and Queer Youth as Sexual Agents in Contemporary Evangelical Purity Culture

Eric A. Thomas
Queer of Color Biblical Criticism: Race, Sexuality, and the New Testament

Brian James Tipton
The Markan Bestiary: Ecology, Animality, and the Second Gospel

2021

Gabriel Colin Crooks
Under Control: Theology, Mastery, and the Autopoiesis of Masculine Identities

Lisa A Gasson-Gardner
Feeling Right: Political Theology, White Evangelical Christianity, and the Im/Possible Project of Listening

Nikki Hoskins
Everyday Experiments in the Projects: Black Women's Moral Visions for the Earth

Alice Kim
A Theology of Traumatic Affect: A Religious and Political Response to Trauma

Austin Roberts
Anthropocene Imaginaries: Geophilosophy, Political Theology, and the Planetary Future

Max Thornton
Cyborg Trans/Criptions: Gender, Disability, and the Image of God

June Hee Yoon
Envisioning Home with Queer Holiness at the Core: A Case Study of Korean American Christian Communities

2020

Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Trafficking Hadassah: An Africana Reading of Collective Trauma, Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and the African Diaspora

Elizabeth Siegelman
Whose Gotta Have It? Race, Gender, and Violence in the Song of Songs

O'neil Van Horn
On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics, Environmental Justice, and the Anthropocene

2019

Elyse Ambrose
Integrative Communality as Liberative Praxis of Christian Sexual Ethics: A Black Queer Ethic

Amy J. Chase
Making Space for Strong Women: A Socio-Narratological Reading of Proverbs 31

Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne
Beloved Speech: Language and Legacies of Methodist Women Leaders of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference with Antiracist/Decolonizing Strategies for Preaching

Elizabeth M. Freese
Rite Relations: Toward the Righting of a Misrecognized Moral Order of Re/Production in Hegemonic American Ritual and Myth

Midori E. Hartman
Citizenship and Enslaveability in Late Antiquity: Augustine's Letter 10*

In Hwan Kim
An Understanding of the Soteriology in the Korean Protestant Churches in Relation to Faith and Works

KwangYu Lee
A Jungian Psychohistorical Analysis of the Growth of the Korean Protestant Church: Trauma and Cultural Complex

Peter N. McLellan
Return of the Living Dead: The Gospel of Mark and Other Haunted Places

Erica Bryand Ramirez
Rise of the Lamb's Queen: Revisiting Azusa Street Mission with Pierre Bourdieu, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Julia Kristeva

Wangeun Serl
A Consciousness Study Comparing Robert Corrington, Yu Young-Mo, and Henry Stapp

Michael Thomas Sniffen
Building and Rebuilding a Protestant American Cathedral: Gothic Power, Privilege, Performance, and Imagination at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Long Island

Stephen J. Wolma
A Gospel for Yuppie New Yorkers? The Whiteness In Tim Keller's Evangelical Message At Redeemer Presbyterian Church

2018

Tejai Beulah
Soul Salvation, Social Liberation: Race and Evangelical Christianity in the Black Power Era, 1968-1979

Jacob J. Erickson
A Theopoetics of the Earth: Divinity, Multiplicity, and Epiphany in the Anthropocene

Dong Hyeon Jeong
With the Wild Beasts, Learning from the Trees: Animality, Vegetality, and (Colonized) Ethnicity in the Gospel of Mark

Elijah Prewitt-Davis
Belief in the World: The Immanent Faith of Gilles Deleuze

Karri Lynne Whipple
Wounding Visions: A De-colonizing, Re-politicizing Approach to Trauma and the New Testament

2017

Shelley L. Dennis
Edible Entanglements: A Political Theology of Food

Ashley Boggan Dreff
Methodists and The New Morality: A Twentieth-Century History of Methodist Sexual Ethics

Theresa Marie Ellis
Consuming the Self: An Ecstatic Naturalist Exploration of Consumerism

James N. Hoke
Under God? A Queer and Feminist Subversion of Submission in Romans

Sarosh Koshy
Beyond Missio Dei: An Examination of Christian Witness

Wade A. Mitchell
Remembering Religion: Traces of a Mnemonic Nature

Nikolay Vasilev Petrov
Robert College of Constantinople: Crossroads of Faiths, Cultures and Empires, 1863 - 1913

A. Paige Rawson
Re-Membering the Bible Otherwise: An Archipelogical Hermeneutic of Bibliorality, Wisdom as Rhizome of Relation, & Other Poetic, Archipelagic Assemblages

Sara Rosenau
Becoming Church: An Ecclesiology of Failure, Embodied Politics, and Queer Grace

Leah Rachelle Thomas
Just Caring: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Ethical Pastorla Care with Women with Mental Illness

2016

Karen Bray
Unredeemed: A Political Theology of Affect, Time, and Worth

Sarah Emanuel
Roasting Rome: Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation

Christopher Alan Haynes
Take Authority to Preach the Word of God: Stratified Social Relationships Among Clergy in a United Methodist Annual Conference

Charon Hribar
Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Structural Violence, Liberationist Ethics, and the Right to Not Be Poor

Nam Joong Kim
Preaching for Social Transformation and Anti-Discrimination in the Context of the Korean Presbyterian Church (1990-2012)

Michael Joseph Oliver
Limits to Attempted Remedies of the Problem of Exclusion in Christian Discourse: Divine Choice as a Case Study

Matthew Timothy Riley
Reading Beyond Roots: The Theological and Weberian Aspects of Lynn White's Scholarship

Kelly M. Robbins
Appeals For Compassion: The Uses of Anthropomorphism and Sentimentality in Animal Advocacy Campaigns

Louis Benji Rolsky
Norman Lear and the Spiritual Politics of Religious Liberalism

Lydia York
Chora: Feminist Theological Cosmology and Psychoanalysis in an Age of Teletechnology

2015

Christy Lee Cobb
Slave-Girls Speaking Truth: Slavery and Gender in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives

John Noel Forlini
Facing the Dark: Encounters at the Jabbok (Gen.32:22-32)

Arminta Fox
"You Yourselves Are Our Letter": A Feminist and Decolonizing Approach to 2 Corinthians

Kyung S. Hong
Korean Shamanism From Tradition To Change in the U.S. Diasporic Context

Suzanne Rita Horn
Laughing Matters: A Bakhtinian Reading of the Book of Esther

Jennifer Kaalund
Dis/locating Diaspora: Reading Hebrews and First Peter with the African American Great Migration

Matthew James Ketchum
Specters of Jesus: Ghosts, Gospels, and Resurrection in Early Christianity

Hsueh-Ming Liao
פי־שׁנים ברוחך: The Elijah-Elisha Succession in Light of Max Weber’s Understanding of Charismatic Authority and Institution Building

Troy Robert Mack
The Destruction of Language: The Challenges of Trauma for Language, Philosophy, and Politics

Geoffrey N. Pollick
Between Chautauqua and Washington Square: Religious Liberalism and Political Radicalism in the Thought of Annis Ford Eastman and Max Eastman

Stephanie Day Powell
Do Not Press Me to Leave You: Narrative Desire and The Book of Ruth

Abigail Turner-Lauck Wernicki
The Aesthetics of Loss: Rethinking Schopenhauer's Theory of the Sublime

Natalie Elizabeth Williams
Christian Ethics of Divorce: Shame, Resistance, and Moral Obligations to the Self

2014

Youn Tae An
The Groundless Middle: Reconstructing the Self in the Colonial Abyss

Kristeen Lee Black
Mormon Kinship: The Symbolic System of Family Within Mormon Religious Communities

Jung Eun Jang
A Self-Psychological Approach to the 1907 Revival Movement in Korea

Amy Beth Jones
The Stranger Within: Narrative Space and Identity Construction in the Book of Judges

Beatrice Eleanor Marovich
Dream of the Creature: Religion, Ethics and Interspecies Kinship

Cecil Berit Marshall
The Inner and Outer Journey: Contemporary Swedish Pilgrimage

Peter Anthony Mena
Borderlands/La Frontera of the Late Ancient Egyptian Desert: Space, Identity, and the Ascetic Imagination

Vivian Rhoades
Religious Identity: A Micro-Level Sociological Study of Faith, Religion, and Spirituality in the Lives of Women in a Domestic Violence Shelter

Matt Westbrook
The International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem and Renewalist Zionism: Emerging Jewish-Christian Ethnonationalism

2013

Holly Hillgardner
Passionate Non-attachment: Practices of Longing in Mirabai and Hadewicjh; A Comparative Study of Desirous Mysticism