Browsing HDS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Theology"
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Adiaphora and the Apocalypse: Protestant Moral Rhetoric of Ritual at the End of History (1544 –1560)
(2016-05-17)This dissertation argues that the Protestant Reformation did not degrade the importance of ritual, but instead reinvested it with a new form of power. By interpreting a theological controversy over the benefits and dangers ... -
Apophatic Measures: Toward a Theology of Irreducible Particularity
(2015-05-12)Apophatic Measures: Toward a Theology of Irreducible Particularity is a work of constructive comparative theology examining select writings of Śaṅkara (Eighth Century, India) and Nicholas of Cusa (Fifteenth Century, Germany). ... -
“Be You as Living Stones Built Up, a Spiritual House, a Holy Priesthood”: Cistercian Exegesis, Reform, and the Construction of Holy Architectures
(2015-09-22)The development of the Cistercian Order in the twelfth century came as a product of a number of eleventh-century reforms. These reforms affected all strata of society, and they impacted the way in which medieval European ... -
Carnal Resurrection: Sexuality and Sexual Difference in Early Christianity
This dissertation explores the ways in which early Christians thought about resurrected bodies in terms of desires, sexual practices, and roles, as well as in terms of how maleness and femaleness are distinguished. The ... -
"Earn the Grace of Prophecy": Early Christian Prophecy as Practice
(2016-09-27)This dissertation explores discussions of prophecy in early Christianity focusing on Origen of Alexandria’s works. It argues that Origen engages the contested terms of prophetic activity to persuade his audience(s) toward ... -
"Elementally Interrupted": Divine and Human Freedom in the Thought of Eberhard Jüngel
This study's principal goal is to engage Eberhard Jüngel's views on freedom and, with the help of this engagement, to think through the intimate connection of the doctrine of God and anthropology. This larger goal contains ... -
Experiencing the Word: Dionysian Mystical Theology in the Commentaries of Thomas Gallus (d.1246)
(2017-09-20)The mystical theology of Thomas Gallus, “the last great Victorine,” was inseparable from his theology of sacred literature. This dissertation analyzes Gallus’s major works: his commentaries on the Song of Songs and the ... -
Forgeries of Desire: The Erotics of Authenticity in New Testament Historiography
(2021-10-29)Situated at the intersection of the study of the New Testament, the theorizing of Christian origins, and queer historiography, this dissertation examines the ways in which biblical scholarship’s pursuit of historical ... -
From The River:Jesuit Missions and Exemplarity in Spanish Colonial Philippines 1581-1768
This dissertation is about Jesuit missionaries and discrete moments of translation, accommodation and exemplarity from the time of their arrival in the Philippines to their expulsion in 1768. Using an interdisciplinary ... -
Implicate and Transgress: Marcella Althaus-Reid, Writing, and a Transformation of Theological Knowledge
(2015-05-11)Marcella Althaus-Reid sought wherever language or meaning might shift or exceed their possibilities. To do so, she pushed theology from the light into the dark. In the spaces of political, economic, and sexual struggle, ... -
"Is the LORD in Our Midst or Not?" Conceptions of Divine Presence in Ancient Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Calf Incident
This study examines various notions of divine presence as integral to the depiction of Israel's apostasy at Mount Sinai within the redacted Pentateuch as well as to interpretations of that composite text by ancient Jews ... -
Perceiving Splendor: The "Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses" in Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics
This study argues that the so-called "doctrine of the spiritual senses" should be recognized as a vital component of the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). The doctrine of the spiritual senses ... -
Sanctuary and Subjectivity: Rethinking Practical Theological Categories in Light of the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s
(2021-11-09)This dissertation utilizes interviews with participants in the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s to situate the movement as an object of practical theological inquiry. Much of the scholarship on the movement focuses on the ... -
The Cult of the Saints and its Christological Foundations in Eustratios of Constantinople's De statu animarum post mortem
In this study, I propose that the cult of the saints in Eustratios of Constantinople's De statu animarum post mortem has a Christological foundation. I examine this thesis from cultural, historical, and theological ... -
The Place of the King Wherein He Dwelt: Reading Ephrem's Mariology in its Contexts
(2023-03-01)Abstract This dissertation examines a fundamental paradox in Christianity. How can the omnipotent, omnipresent God be said to be present within Mary, mother of Jesus Christ? I pose this question of the poetry of Ephrem the ... -
Theology in Place: Religion, Geography, and the American South
(2021-11-09)Christianity is a place-less religion, so the story goes. This dissertation argues, on the contrary, that Christian theology, far from having put an end to spatial thinking, has found ways to take place literally over the ... -
Trading Futures: Future-Talk, Finance, and Christian Eschatology
(2017-04-17)Standard textbooks describe finance as the field of economics that concerns itself with the future. This dissertation suggests instead that financial discourse conjures a particular mode of future-talk, one that renders ... -
'Un Imaginable Boundaries': Performativity, Theology, and the Study of Trauma
(2017-09-20)This dissertation locates versions of the Fall and original sin at the center of ostensibly secular theories of trauma and extreme violence. The first chapter reviews genealogies of trauma and Christian theological writings ... -
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 ...