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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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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, ...
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). ...
"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 ...
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 ...