Browsing HDS Student Papers by Title
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ILLUMINATED / MANUSCRIPT: A Chronicle of Lightning Bolts
A CHRONICLE OF LIGHTNING BOLTS is a modern-day Illuminated Manuscript midwifed by the coronavirus. It weaves together journals, essays, sermons, songs and visions composed by a divinity school student during pandemic times. ... -
In the Hands of God: Theology and the Benefits of American Football
This essay investigates the active role of theology in the practice of American football. In particular, it shows how the positive benefits of football are articulated using the language of mainline American theology. In ... -
Invoking Eternity: Religion and Temporality in the National Socialist Narrative
(2021)This paper seeks to shine a light on the National Socialist approach to both religion and temporality as they intersect in the narrative of the Third Reich. Using the Nazi propaganda documentaries 'Triumph of the Will' and ... -
Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon in Light of the Tibetan Treasure (gter ma) Tradition
(2021)This paper explores and extends theories on Joseph Smith’s production of the Book of Mormon by discovering and translating a set of ancient gold plates in light of similar events in the Treasure (gter ma) tradition of ... -
Las que te tienen temblando de noche y de día: A (social) media analysis of IRL #Brujas (not witches) of Instagram
Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in popular culture on the modern-day witch. The focus, however, has leaned towards whiteness, in almost complete erasure of Afro-Indigenous spiritual perspectives. ... -
Lighting the Fire: A Unitarian Universalist Youth Worship Handbook
Lighting the Fire: A Unitarian Universalist Youth Worship Handbook is a guide for youth (and those in youth ministry) for creating collaborative and nourishing worship and ritual grounded in youth empowerment and Unitarian ... -
Moral Wastes: Food Waste in the City of Cambridge
This study examines multiple perspectives about food waste in the context of curbside compost collection in the city of Cambridge in the fall of 2021. Using the concept of “moral waste”—a material or condition that deviates ... -
A New Patronage: St. Edith Stein and Women’s Suffrage
Known as Jew and Christian, philosopher and monastic, Holocaust victim and Christian martyr, St. Edith Stein (1891-1942) is survived by yet another identity: suffragette. After a brief biographical overview of Stein’s ... -
None of This Is Valuable to Me: Notes on Going On
This project began as an exploration of pastoral care and poetry. The poems, however, generally spoke to the theme of apocalypse—which in turn changed the conversation about care to look more closely at salvation, preservation, ... -
Oneing Illness and Love: Considering Embodiment with Julian of Norwich
Oneing Illness and Love explores the experience of illness and suffering in hospital chaplaincy. In a magical realist essay, Young Chang considers the theology of medieval English mystic Julian of Norwich, and how Julian's ... -
Outdoors Ministry Curriculum
This curriculum is intended for use within Episcopal parishes and campus chaplaincies that seek to explore the rich spiritual resources within the Episcopal and greater Christian tradition that deepen our understanding of ... -
A Partial Translation into French of Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson including a Foreword by the Translator
(2021)This work is a translation into French of half of the book Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson. In the foreword in English, the translator explains the challenges ... -
peace house cambridge
capstone project for MDiv. Establishing Peace House in Cambridge MA. Monastic residence, contemplative public space. -
PLAY: An Exploration Using Buddhist Texts
Playing is a rich, meaningful aspect of our lives—a vital component, in fact, to a life well-lived. Playing is not a luxury nor a privilege; all of us can and should have elements of play in our lives. In this paper, play ... -
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Pregnant Husbands, Reality, and Imagination: The Queer Potential of Babymaking Technologies
(2021-05)This thesis project considers the issue of babymaking among queer people, or in other words, the ways that queer people employ reproductive technologies to have children. Although some queer theorists have characterized ... -
Public Theology and the Korean War: Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited through Ham Seok-heon
(2021-05)To explore a proper space for a public Christian theology of peace and reconciliation across the U.S. and the two Koreas, this thesis juxtaposes two towering theologians of the 20th century on the fulcrum of the Korean ... -
Race in Contemporary Politically Conservative Jewish Thought
This essay argues that politically conservative Jews deploy a post-racial politics to both align themselves with whiteness and deny what they view as a progressive claim that Jews are white. It gives an overview of how ...