Evangelicalism, historians have long noted, was a movement born in field, forest, and stream. Like most truisms, however, this one has rarely been explored as deeply as it deserves. Using the tools of cultural history, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This dissertation examines the use of hypertextual and allusive compositional practices in prophetic collections from the second century B.C.E. Our analysis centers on the three best-preserved examples: 4QApocryphon of ...

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 ...

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 ...