Browsing HDS Student Papers by Title
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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 ... -
Poems
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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 ... -
Race Rendered Theologically: The Entangled Theological and Racial Discourse of Josiah Strong, 1885-1915
(2021)Analyzing the relationship between white mainline Protestant theology and white supremacy in the twentieth-century United States raises methodological challenges because of the coded language of dog-whistle politics and ... -
Re-Riting Ritual for Reproductive Loss: An Inclusive Support Resource for Catholics Experiencing Reproductive Loss
“Re-Riting Ritual for Reproductive Loss” is a resource to ritually support Catholics experiencing different forms of reproductive loss. Rooted in intentional and inclusive language, this resource invites individuals and ... -
Reading the Baptism in the New Testament Through the Symbolism of Water in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
This project shows how a core Christian theological concept from the New Testament, baptism, can be read through the theological understanding of the symbolism of water from the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). The symbolism ... -
Reading to Live
An MDiv Senior Thesis on the relational practice and transformative potential of reading and the practice sharing narrative through story-telling -
Real Hope: How Love Can Lift Us All
In this faith autobiography, the author uses the funeral of his newly discovered brother as a platform from which he brings the reader along on a journey that highlights how he found hope, his purpose, his faith, and the ... -
Reflections on Ministry
Authentic ministry is not simply a role or activity in service of the spiritual care of others. More fundamentally, it is the inner life turned outward - an internal disposition that opens new and profoundly counter-cultural ... -
Reimagining Gendered Practice in American Buddhism
(2021-05)Buddhism has been gaining attention in the West since the turn of the twentieth century. Despite this increasing popularity, there is a certain aspect of the tradition criticized as sexist. This paper scrutinizes the ... -
Reimagining Queer Affirmation in an Evangelical Identity: Narratives, History, Wonder, and a Journey to Heal and be Seen
This work delves into the history and patterns of modern American evangelicalism, drawing upon personal narrative and theological works from people of various spiritual traditions to understand an experience of being queer ...