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For Recent Events
Our successful dissertationists . . .
The following students have successfully defended their dissertations. We congratulate both the student and his or her advisor.
For 2008 defenses
For 2009 defenses
From 2007
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran & Professor Jennifer Herdt
February 15, 2007
Revelations of Love and Operations of Grace: Jonathan Edwards' Human Virtues
Sam Thomas & Professor James VanderKam
March 27, 2007
The "Mysteries" of Qumran Community: The Raz-Concept in Second Temple Judaism and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Thomas Trinidad & Professor Nathan Mitchell
March 28, 2007
The Word of God in Ecclesial Rites and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Comparison of Karl Barth and Louis-Marie Chauvet
Heliodoro Lucatero & Professor Maxwell Johnson
April 10, 2007
The Practice of Baptism in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
David Pitt & Professor Maxwell Johnson
April 12, 200y
Revising the Rite of Adult Initiation: The Structural Reform of the Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum, Ordo Catechumenatus Per Gradus Dispositus, 1964-1972
Rita George-Tvrtkovic & Professor Joseph Wawrykow
May 4, 2007
The Ambivalence of Interreligious Experience: Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Theology of Islam
Natalia Imperatori-Lee & Professor Mary Catherine Hilkert
May 21, 2007
The Use of Marian Imagery in Catholic Ecclesiology Since Vatican II
Daniel Machiela & Professor James VanderKam
June 7, 2007
The Genesis Apocryphon (1Q2O): A Reevaluation of its Text, Interpretive Character, and Relationship to the Book of Jubilees
John Perry & Professor Jennifer Herdt
June 25, 2007
Subverting the Republic: Christian Faithfulness and Civic Allegiance in John Locke's America
Raymond Aguas & Professors Mary Doak and Robert Krieg
June 26, 2007
Relating Faith and Political Action: Utopia in the Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez
Kindalee Delong & Professor Gregory Sterling
July 20, 2007
Kindy's dissertation title: Surprised by God: Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts
Teresa Reeve & Professor Mary Rose D'Angelo
August 23, 2007
Luke 3:1-4:15 And the Rite of Passage in Ancient Literature: Liminality and Transformation
Christopher Pramuk & Professor Lawrence Cunningham
October 11, 2007
Hagia Sophia: Imagination, Poetics and Presence in the Christology of Thomas Merton
Danielle Nussberger & Professors Lawrence Cunningham and Cyril O'Regan
November 13, 2007
Saint as Theological Wellspring: Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Hermeneutic of the Saint in a Christological and Trinitarian Key
Kimberly Baker & Professor John Cavadini
December 13, 2007
Augustine on Action, Contemplation, and Their Meeting Point in Christ
From 2008:
Michael Heintz & Professors John Cavadini and Brian Daley
February 18, 2008
The Pedagogy of the Soul: Origen's Homilies on the Psalms
Walter Whitehouse and Professor Nathan Mitchell
March 14, 2008
Full, Conscious, and Active Participation: A Prelude
Michael Whitehouse and Professor Maxwell Johnson
March 31, 2008
Manus Impositio: The Initiatory Rite of
Handlaying in the Churches of Early Western Christianity
LaReine-Marie Mosely & Professor M. Catherine Hilkert
April 7, 2008
Salvation Despite the Death of Jesus? The Cross in the Later Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx: African American Christian Female Perspectives
Todd Hanneken & Professor James VanderKam
April 7, 2008
The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses
Kenneth Garcia & Professor Lawrence Cunningham
April 8, 2008
The Desire of the Mind for God and the Telos of the Catholic University
John Conroy & Professor Gregory Sterling
April 11 , 2008
"The Wages of Sin is Death": (Rom 6:23) Paul and Philo on the Death of the Soul
Nancy Johnson & Professor Maxwell Johson
May 14 , 2008
Living Death: Baptism and the Christian Life in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa
D. Andrew Teeter & Professor Gary Anderson
June 23, 2008
Exegesis in the Transmission of Biblical Law in the Second Temple Period: Preliminary Studies
Shawn Colberg & Professor Joseph Wawrykow
July 8 , 2008
"Be Glad and Rejoice for Your Reward is Very Great in Heaven": 'Reward' in the Theology of Thomas and Bonaventure
Scott Moringiello & Professor Robin Darling Young
August 14 , 2008
Irenaeus Rhetor
Kristin Colberg & Professor Robert Krieg
August 18 , 2008
Vatican I and Vatican II as Coherent Christian Discourse: A Relationship of Complementarity, Continuity and Difference
Steven Rodenborn & Professor M. Catherine Hilkert
August 18 , 2008
Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz
Lindsey Esbensen & Professor Jean Porter
August 25 , 2008
A Critical Appraisal of the Distinctively Religious-Moral Theology of Bernard Häring
Charles Camosy & Professor Maura Ryan
August 25 , 2008
Treatment of Imperiled Newborns: The Social Quality of Life Model in Light of Catholic Social Teaching
Christopher Wells & Professor Joseph Wawrykow
December 12 , 2008
Sacraments of the Incarnate Word: The Christological Form of the Summa Theologiae
Bradley Gregory& Professor Gary Anderson
December 12 , 2008
Like an Everlasting Signet Ring": Generosity in the Book of Sirach
From 2009:
Matthew Loverin & Professor Gerald McKenny
February 10, 2009
Obedient Unto Death: The Person and Work of Jesus Christ in Karl Barth’s Theological Ethics
Molly Zahn & Professor James VanderKam
March 2 , 2009
The Forms and Methods of Early Jewish Reworkings of the Pentateuch in Light of 4Q158
David George & Professor Gregory Sterling
April 7 , 2009
Jesus’ Lack of Emotion in Luke: The Lucan Redactions in Light of the Hellenistic Philosophers
Ardea Russo & Professor David Aune
June 11 , 2009
the Heavenly Door: Earthly Liturgy and Heavenly Worship in the apocalypse of John
Daniel O'Hare & Professor Gary Anderson
June 26 , 2009
Have You Seen, Son of Man?’: Preliminary Studies in the Translation and Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40-48
John Reeve & Professor Brian Daley
August 17 , 2009
The Theological Anthropology of Theophilus of Antioch: Immortality and Resurrection in the context of Judgment
Nicholas Russo & Professor Maxwell Johnson
August 17 , 2009
The Origins of Lent
Lee Blackburn & Professor Brian Daley
September 10 , 2009
The Mystery of the Synagogue: Cyril of Alexandria on the Law of Moses
