This dissertation begins the work of a full critical edition and translation of Wyclif’s treatise, De incarnatione Verbi (DIV). Chapters 1–4 include full codicological surveys of all eight surviving manuscripts that contain the text; justify the proposed stemma codicum in light …
"This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive appr…
"This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive appr…
"This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive appr…
"This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive appr…
Person and nature in philosophical perspective -- Aquinas's basic view of the incarnation -- The incarnation and divine simplicity, immutability, and impassibility -- How does Christ's human nature not ground its own person -- The number of existences (esse) in Christ -- The con…
In this thesis, I seek to answer the following question: “Is Neo-Apollinarianism biblical?” In order to do so, I first will establish what Neo-Apollinarianism is, and then specify some terms whereby it may be decided whether Neo-Apollinarianism is biblical. For purposes of this …
This project investigates challenges to the New Testament’s presentation of the Incarnation of the Son of God which derive from the theological and philosophical worldviews of Orthodox Judaism, namely those promoted by Maimonides and Kabbalah. Maimonides’s worldview entailed tha…
This doctoral project researches the effectiveness of systematic teaching at Brookville Road Community Church in New Palestine, Indiana on the nature of Jesus during the incarnation and his relationship with the Holy Spirit in the lives of adult attenders. The teaching seeks to …
This professional project is based on the premise that Jesus is present in and to the world and he alone determines his mission. His mission, then, determines the nature of his community and the forms his community adopts as it participates in his continuing ministry with those …
The purpose of this research is to seek and eventually follow lines of cultural production within Europe and specifically Italy between 1180-1320 that gave rise to a particular conception of the individual. This conception had as much to do with negation as affirmation and as su…
This dissertation examines the soteriology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and presents a defense of his theology of sacrifice. His theology of sacrifice, I argue, appropriates both the cultic and prophetic material of Scripture. My method is to trace Balthasar's theological aesthetic…
In this exploratory work I argue that Jesus’s particularity as a Jewish, male human is essential for developing Christian theology about nonhuman animals. The Gospel of John says that the Word became “flesh” not that the Word became “human”. By using flesh, John’s Gospel connect…
Written by Spanish Carmelite nun, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), the Interior Castle argues that souls exist, that God dwells within them, and that human beings may experience this reality. This dissertation studies how this classic story of a mystical journey to God may be said t…
Western dualism is an illusion. All of reality is a dialectical unity of incarnate love understood through the condition of the possibilities of divine and human, spirit and matter, Self and Other. Incarnation offers an understanding of the Self with ethical and cultural applica…
The Eucharist is at the heart of Christian worship and at the heart of the Eucharist are the curious phrases, 'This is my body' and 'This is my blood'. James M. Arcadi offers a constructive proposal for understanding Christ's presence in the Eucharist that draws on contemporary …