The principal research question of this study is framed as: Do prevailing, industrially and politically sourced definitions of Digital Exhibition faithfully represent the phenomenon's position within the contemporary media theory framework? Within this work Digital Exhibition is…
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This research studies the theology of those Wahhabis who have now named themselves Salafis. For the purpose of the study, they are referred to as the ‘Wahhabis-self-named-Salafis’ (WSNS). The thesis starts with the observation that the WSNS are usually studied from a political p…
This study explores the hermeneutical issues raised by critical approaches to the Book of the Twelve and their implications for the concepts of authorial intent, history, and canon. By means of a critical engagement with the Twelve’s modern reception history it seeks to demonstr…
Washington D.C. has witnessed many watershed events throughout the history of the United States of America. One of these events was the Summer in the Parks (SITP) program organized by the National Park Service (NPS) from 1968-1976. Summer in the Parks was a community based serie…
Allegorical interpretation is easily misunderstood by evangelical Christians as an evil tool that perverts the plain meaning of the scriptural text. Calvin’s severe accusation of allegory would make Reformed Christians think that he sees all allegorical interpretations as illegi…
The Jimmy Carter National Historic Park was established in 1987 under the control of the National Park Service to commemorate the life of the 39th President of the United States. The interpretation here attempts to portray Carter as an apolitical figure. While this is not necess…
Historic open data can be an asset to community gardens in land use disputes, the preservation and sharing of cultural traditions, and adaptation to climate change. Yet scholarship has not yet provided an accessible guide to the many issues of labor and technology involved in pr…
The author selected this public history project after applying for a grant from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. The society initially sought proposals in March 2020 to fund a community project that would introduce Emerson to a non-academic audience. The author’s research culmin…
Ikeda Manabu (b. 1973) creates monumental images that emerge from an aggregate of unrelated miniature motifs. These small motifs are made from an accumulation of short, colorful lines drawn on paper canvases. Taking Buddha and Regeneration as case studies, this thesis investigat…
This dissertation examines how early modern Lutherans experienced, narrated and interpreted their dreams. Confessional controversies, political struggles, wars, and plagues left traces in Lutherans' dream images. Besides contemporary events, religion played central role in shapi…
Classic and modern approaches to biblical interpretation offer varying perspectives derived from differing affirmations regarding the character of the text. For traditional theology, the Bible was seen as divine revelation; it conveyed God's intention and will to humans in an un…
Ambiguous language haunts countless fields of human inquiry. The solution to its confounding nature has repeatedly been to reduce language to its face-value, launching an endless search for the right meaning. This paper aims to examine two thinkers who reveal language to be a mo…
While working to maintain contemporary and future relationships with stakeholders, heritage sites and cultural centers across the United States attempt to tell the history and experiences of the land and people who were once there, are there in the present, and will be there in …
Jonathan Edwards has proven to be one of the most influential figures in eighteenth-century Christianity and beyond. Edwards, situated in a rapidly changing society, labored to maintain his Christian heritage. He emerged as a biblical, exegetical, and philosophical theologian wh…
Chapter 1 introduces the dissertation by describing the research problem of barriers to using multiple hermeneutical approaches. This chapter also states the thesis that insight for addressing these barriers is found in the homiletic of Jay E. Adams. Because of the technicality …
This thesis investigates and documents sixty-one Ohio Hopewellian objects that form a collection currently housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). The objects were excavated from the Hopewell site of Ross County, Ohio which lends its name to a renowned and geographically ex…
Pursuit of an informed approach to interpreting Frédéric Chopin’s music has been increasingly challenging in the twenty-first century. In the process of forming their unique voices, pianists turn to the sound recordings of some of the most notable pianistic figures in history. T…
Preachers encounter numerous hermeneutical challenges when attempting to preach from the book of Acts. In an attempt to assist preachers, the project produces a book manuscript with a series of interpretive guidelines and homiletic suggestions when preaching from Acts. A biblica…
One of the distinctive features of biblical myth in general and of the Gospels in particular, as David Friedrich Strauss observed in his The Life of Jesus Critically Examined in 1835, is the making of myths out of historical (and historical-seeming) events. Strauss was the first…