Browsing HDS Student Papers by Title
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Abortion, Eugenics, and Civilization: Catholic Anti-Abortion Arguments during the Great Depression
(2021-05)During the early years of the Great Depression, financial pressures caused the rate of abortions to at least double despite the procedure’s illegality in every state. In response to this rise in abortions, Catholic theologians ... -
Almost No Matter What
(2020)"Almost No Matter What" is a work of autotheory - according to Stacey Young, a mode of writing "personal experience within political contexts" - in the emerging discipline of post-capitalist pastoral theology. Aware that ... -
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 ... -
A Call to Gender Justice: A Commentary on Equality and Equity in the COOLJC
(2021)This paper explores how some interpretations of scripture and other sacred texts have been used to subjugate women particularly in the COOLJC (Church of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Inc.). We will examine the historical ... -
Coming Down in Pieces: The Spiritual Care Response to Pan Am 103
(2021-05)The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988 was a major terrorism and mass murder event on par with 9/11 in terms of social and cultural impact. All 259 people onboard and 11 people on ... -
Consent Based Catholic Sex Education: Moving towards a more inclusive model of sex education, reproductive education, and consent education
(2021)This paper will show that Catholic sex education needs an update immediately. I argue that Catholic sex education should move towards a model that is based on consent, that teaches comprehensive reproductive education, and ... -
Constructing the Gospels with Elisha’s Axe: Christian Soteriology, Discipleship, and Wonder-Working Focalized through the Medieval English Liturgy for the Ordeal by Water
(2021-05)This thesis examines the significance of the pericope of Elisha’s axe head on the formation of the Gospels and the Christian theology of discipleship. By spotlighting the role of Elisha’s axe head in the medieval English ... -
Feuerbach’s Alienation and Cyberspace (Social Media): Three Models of the Human
(2021)With the three models of the human in mind, the paper observes the current shift in paradigm— the downfall of the autonomous individual and the emergence of the co-dependent network— under cyberspace (social media) by ... -
Forsaking Babel: A Theological Framework for Biblical Stories as Relationship and Surrender
(2020)What are the relational dynamics of narrative-as-communication, and why do the biblical scriptures utilize it? Through an exploration of both these questions and several key biblical narratives, this paper seeks to uncover ... -
From Deus in Adiutorium To Maranatha: Colonialism and Reform in John Main’s Hindu Encounter
(2021)John Main, OSB (1926-1982) taught a method of Christian meditation that was notably developed from the synthesis of two major sources: his encounter with Swami Satyananda (1909-1961) in British Malaya in 1955 and the ... -
The Giving Boy (Draft)
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“He [Should] Have Been Treated Differently”: My Family’s Struggle For and Against White Privilege
(2021-05)This paper outlines my Latter-day Saint ancestors’ struggle during the nineteenth century for the privileged status of whiteness and my family’s struggle during the early twenty-first century against systemic racism—a ... -
Healing the Hidden Wound: The Role of White Affinity Groups in Racial Justice
(2021-05)It’s May, 2021, one year after Derick Chauvin murdered George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement became a worldwide phenomenon and a household name. The summer of 2020 saw white Americans protesting white supremacy, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...