Browsing HDS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Veiled and Unveiled Others: Revisiting Karl Barth's Gender Trouble
(2016-02-04)Karl Barth is frequently named as the poster-child for modern patriarchal and heteronormative theologies. In Church Dogmatics he secures a binary, hierarchically-ordered, marital relationship between a man and woman as the ... -
Violence and the Survival of Israel in the Book of Esther
(2015-07-21)The book of Esther stands in a complex relationship to the Christian tradition. Accepted as canonical by ancient Israel, Judaism, and Christianity, the book nonetheless is known in the Church not for its powerful narrative ... -
Violent Lovesickness: Richard of St Victor, Beatrice of Nazareth, Hadewijch, and Angela of Foligno
(2017-05-15)This dissertation examines four medieval Christian texts that describe the love between the soul and Christ in violent terms and demonstrates how images of violence, such as wounding, striking, and beating, illustrate the ... -
We Dive And Reappear in New Places:Aesthetic Experience and Fundamentalism Undone
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of 100 men and women who grew up in an American fundamentalist Christian community and left it, and for whom the arts played an instrumental role in the process of leaving. The ... -
"What is This Word?": An Early Christian Narrative of the Universal Spread of the Spirit-Accompanied Word
This dissertation investigates the divine word and the Spirit as co-narrative themes in Luke-Acts. While the thematic importance of the word in Luke-Acts has been generally recognized, what remains jejune is the examination ...