This dissertation explores the ways in which the Christian doctrine of grace and nature is understood and deployed in the works of John Wesley and Thomas Aquinas. Given the extremely broad nature of this topic, we consider principally their mature works on grace and nature: the …
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The purpose of this dissertation is to offer a theological challenge to the ongoing use of solitary confinement in the United States.
Images of God, positive and negative, create an ongoing tension in the biblical text. This tension is due to the paradoxical character of God as seen in Exod 34:6-7. The cognitive dissonance created by the juxtaposition of positive and negative images of the divine is unsettling…
This study is an analysis of the creation of mankind in Gen 2:5-3:24 in light of the Mesopotamian "Washing of the Mouth" (mis pî ) and the Opening of the Mouth (pit pî ) and the Egyptian "Opening of the Mouth" (wpt-r ) rituals for the creation of a divine image. The primary goal…
The first of a six-volume contribution to systematic theology, this text extends the insights of contemporary Trinitarian thought to theological anthropology. It develops a communal understanding of the "imago deli" in the face of the demise of the centred self.
