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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 Abtonii.
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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