People & Events

The heart of our PhD program is the people -- the faculty and students who come together to form a vibrant learning community. The pictures included on this site offer a small window into that community. If you wish to learn more, we encourage you to visit us. Please give us three to four weeks advance notice so that we can help you meet with faculty and students in your area of interest.

 

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

 

From 2007

 

Elizabeth Agnew Cochran & Professor Jennifer Herdt
February 15, 2007

Revelations of Love and Operations of Grace: Jonathan Edwards' Human Virtues

Elizabeth Agnew & Advisor, Professor Jennifer Herdt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Sam Thomas and advisor, Professor James VanderKam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Thomas Trinidad & advisor, Professor Nathan Mitchell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heliodoro Lucatero & Professor Maxwell Johnson
April 10, 2007

The Practice of Baptism in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Heliodoro Lucator & advisor, Professor Maxwell Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

David Pitt and advisor, Professor Maxwell Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rita George-Tvrtkovic & Professor Joseph Wawrykow
May 4, 2007

The Ambivalence of Interreligious Experience: Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Theology of Islam

Rita George-Tvrtkovic and advisor, Joseph Wawrykow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natalia Imperatori-Lee & Professor Mary Catherine Hilkert
May 21, 2007

The Use of Marian Imagery in Catholic  Ecclesiology Since Vatican II

Natalia Imperatori-Lee with advisor, Professor Mary Catherine Hilkert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Daniel Machiela and dissertation director, James VanderKam

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Perry & Professor Jennifer Herdt
June 25, 2007

Subverting the Republic: Christian  Faithfulness and Civic Allegiance in John Locke's America

John Perry and advisor, Professor Jennifer Herdt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raymond Aguas & Professors Mary Doak and Robert Krieg
June 26, 2007

Relating Faith and Political Action: Utopia in  the Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez

Raymon Aguas & advisors, Professors Mary Doak and Robert Krieg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kindalee Delong & Professor Gregory Sterling
July 20, 2007

Kindy's dissertation title: Surprised by God: Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts

Kindalee DeLong and advisor, Professor Gregory Sterling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Teresa Reeve and dissertation director, Professor Mary Rose D'Angelo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Pramuk & Professor Lawrence Cunningham

October 11, 2007
Hagia Sophia: Imagination, Poetics and  Presence in the Christology of Thomas Merton
Chris Pramuk and advisor, Professor Lawrence Cunningham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Danielle Nussberger & Professors Cunningham and O'Regan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Kimberly Baker & Professor John Cavadini

December 13, 2007
Augustine on Action, Contemplation, and Their  Meeting Point in Christ

Kimberly Baker and Professor John Cavadini

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael Heintz & Professors John Cavadini and Brian Daley

February 18, 2008
The Pedagogy of the Soul:  Origen's Homilies on the Psalms

MIchael Heintz and Professors John Cavadini and Brian Daley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walter Whitehouse and Professor Nathan Mitchell

March 14, 2008
Full, Conscious, and Active Participation: A  Prelude

Walter Whitehouse and Professor Nathan Mitchell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Whitehouse and Professor Maxwell Johnson

March 31, 2008
Manus Impositio: The Initiatory Rite of Handlaying in the Churches of Early Western Christianity

Michael Whitehouse & Professor Maxwell Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

LaReine-Marie Mosely & Professor M. Catherine Hilkert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todd Hanneken & Professor James VanderKam

April 7, 2008
The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses

Todd Hanneken & Professor James VanderKam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kenneth Garcia & Professor Lawrence Cunningham

April 8, 2008
The Desire of the Mind for God and the Telos  of the Catholic University

Kenneth Garcia & Professor Lawrence Cunningham