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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 ...
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 ...
Beloved Glimpses: A Unitarian Universalist Theology of the Beloved Community and Implications for Our Shared World
Theology of the Beloved Community has become mainstream in many discussions across Unitarian Universalism. As a powerful concept that emerged out of the works of Dr. Josiah Royce and popularized by the 1960s US Civil Rights ...
Black Relativity: On Law, Music, and Spirit in (Anti-)Black Time
(2021)
This paper argues that anti-Blackness is so vast, pervasive, and powerful that it has disfigured the concept and experience of time for Black people, and it argues that, against and within this disfigurement, Black people ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...