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Successfully Defended Dissertation Topics

  2012
   
Student:  Michael M. Canaris
Title: Francis A. Sullivan’s Hermeneutical Approach to Magisterial Documents: Its Methods and Application
Mentor:  Dr. Bradford E. Hinze
   
   
Student: John Downey
Title: “A Return to the Gospel”: The Lacouture Retreat and American Catholic Revivalism, 1931-1985
Mentor:  Dr. James T. Fisher
   
   
Student: Kyle Haden, O.F.M.
Title: The City of Brotherly Love and the Most Violent Religious Riots in America: Anti Catholicism and Religions Violence in Philadelphia, 1820-1858
Mentor: Rev. Mark S. Massa, S.J.
   
   
Student: David Mezynski
Title: The Effects of the Origenist Controversy on the Pastoral Theology of Barsanuphius and John
Mentor: Dr. George E. Demacopoulos
   
   
Student: Erica Olsen-Bang
Title: The God Who Loves Strangers: An Ethical Theology of Hospitality
Mentor: Dr. Terrence W. Tilley
   
   
Student:  John P. Reardon
Title: A Theological Analysis of R. C. Zaehner’s Theory of Mysticism
Mentor: Rev. Richard Viladesau
   
   
  2011
   
Student: Mara Anne Brecht
Title: Taking the Epistemology of Interreligious Dialogue Seriously: Belief, Religious  Diversity, and Dialogue as a Virtuous Doxastic Practice
Mentor: Dr. Terrence W. Tilley
   
   
Student: David P. Deavel
Title: Under Judgment: The Possibility of Damnation in the Thought of John Henry Newman
Mentor: Msgr. Thomas J. Shelley
   
   
Student: Hope Hirshorn
Title: John Macquarrie’s Theology of Meditation
Mentor: Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
   
   
Student: Jukka Kääriäinen
Title: Missio Shaped by Promissio: Luthern Missiology Confronts the
Challenge of Religious Pluralism
Mentor: Dr. Bradford E. Hinze
   
   
Student: Ann M. Michaud
Title: Of God and of the Earth:Theological Anthropology developed from the Theology of John F. Haught
Mentor: Dr. Jeannine Hill Fletcher
   
   
Student: Nancy L. Rogers
Title: Poetic Revelation: The Relationship between Parallelism and Metaphor
in Biblical Hebrew Poetry
Mentor: Dr. Harry P. Nasuti
   
   
Student: Joel M. Warden, C.O.
Title: Principles, Virtue And The Moral Agent: Toward An Ethic Of Patient Care For The Emergency Medical Services
Mentor: Dr. Christine Firer Hinze
   
  2010
   
Student: Joy E. Galarneau
Title: A Feminist Interpretation of Pinchas Lapide’s Jewish Theology of Christianity as a Model for Christian Self Understanding. 
Mentor: Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
   
   
Student: Sarah J. Spangler
Title: Christology as the Basis of Metaphysics in Book One of Origen’s Commentary on John. 
Mentor: Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard
   
   2009
   
Student: Carl F. Baechle
Title: A Reappraisal of the Christology of St. Justin Martyr. 
Mentor: Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard
   
   
Student: Julia H. Brumbaugh
Title: Yves Congar’s Theology of Tradition as a Resource for a Feminist Theological Response to the Crisis of  Master Narratives.
Mentor: Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
   
   
Student: Giovanna Raengo Czander
Title: “You are my Witnesses” A Theological Approach to the Laws of Testimony.
Mentor: Dr. Mary C. Callaway
   
   
Student: H. Ashley Hall
Title: Philipp Melanchthon and the Cappadocians:  The Reception of Greek Patristic Sources in the Sixteenth Century.
Mentor: Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard
   
   
Student: Andrew Jacobs
Title: The Creative Power of the Future: Wolfhart Pannenberg Modern Science, and the Metaphysics of Divine Action.
Mentor: Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
   
   
Student: Rev. Joseph F. Mali
Title: Two Sayings on the New and Old: Mark:2:21-22 in Context.
Mentor: Rev. Richard J. Dillon
   
   
Student: Michael J. Maloney, III
Title: Wolfhart Pannenberg's Use of the Concept of the True Infinite: A Critical Inquiry.
Mentor: Rev. Richard Viladesau
   
   
Student: Cindy E. Sobiesiak
Title: Councils and Conferences in the United States, 1810-2001: Toward a Theology of National Episcopal Conferences.
Mentor: Msgr. Thomas J. Shelley
   
   
Student: Mary McCaffery Veeneman
Title What is the Role of the Community on the New Evangelical Theology? 
A Critical Analysis of the Postfoundationalist Theologies of Stanley Grenz and Kevin Vanhoozer.
Mentor:    Dr. Bradford E. Hinze
   
  2008
   
Student: Lois Gandt
Title A Philological and Theological Analysis of the Ancient Latin Translations of the Vita Antonii.
Mentor:    Rev. J. T. Lienhard, S.J.
   
   
Student: Rev. Victor Mbanisi
Title: Baptism and the Ideal of Unity and Universality of the Church in St. Augustine’s Ecclesiology: An Exposition of His Theology in Light of the Donatist Controversy.
Mentor: Rev. J. T. Lienhard, S.J.
   
   
Student: Jessica M. (Wormley) Murdoch
Title Foundations of Christian Faith?  Karl Rahner’s “Transcendental Hermeneutics” and the Postmodern Critique.
Mentor:    Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ.
   
   
Student: Mark A. Newcomb
Title The Ark and the Covenant: Edmund Bonner and Nicholas Ridley On Ecclesiology and the Promotion of Scripture in Sixteenth – Century England.
Mentor:    Rev. Thomas J. Shelley
   
   
Student: Joshua Papsdorf
Title Ambrosiaster’s Theological Anthropology: Nature, Law and Grace in the Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Quaestiones Veteris Et Novi Testamenti CXXVII.
Mentor:    Rev. J. T. Lienhard, S.J.

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