Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. …
This dissertation examined suffering, noted in the form of loneliness, in the life of Henri Nouwen and the author’s own journey. This narrative was taken from two of Nouwen’s works, The Return of the Prodigal Son (1992) and Home Tonight (2009). Nouwen confronts his own personal …
This study applies Michael Polanyi's concept of latent knowledge to biblical echoes and allusions in order to elucidate the role of suffering in the fulfillment of Gen 1:28. Specifically, we explore whether a latent understanding of the relationship between Gen 1:28 and 3:16 as …
Hinton's theology of pain posits that an individual's suffering contributes to God's redemptive work in the world. This dissertation explores Hinton's theological appropriation of pain in four ways. First, we examine Hinton's life and writings to establish his personal interest …
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 inductive study explored the indigenous understandings and beliefs about suffering and healing of a sample of South Asian immigrant women. All seven of the participants had immigrated to the U.S. in the last ten years from South Asian countries, were of working class backgr…
The Book of Job has attracted the attention of exegetes and theologians for centuries. Several topics have been the focus of scholarly consideration, most importantly the problem of theodicy. Job, the hero of this book, suffers undeservedly, and the consequences of his afflictio…
This dissertation explores the formation of global responsibility discourses used in promoting NATO’s military interventions in other sovereignties in the post-Cold War era in the mainstream US media. The study utilizes discourse analysis to examine the construction and articula…
This dissertation, written under the direction of Ronald F. Youngblood, examines the topic of the innocent sufferer/suffering as it appears in the book of Proverbs. In order to approach this topic the term "theodicy" is defined and discussed. Then, in a comparative study, repres…
Using critical theological and exegetical methodologies with philosophical considerations, this dissertation will present a Biblical foundation, from the Book of Hosea, for the withdrawing of Divine Presence as an occasion for human suffering. In reverse, the Book of Hosea will …
This study takes Lamentations as an integrated unity of form and content, and considers the mini-acrostic in Lam 5:19-20 as crucial for the interpretation of the whole book. It applies a holistic approach and a dialogic interpretation to the book of Lamentations. This dissertati…
This cross-cultural dissertation examines how the pain of immigration is conveyed in immigrant literature. It compares immigrant texts from the Maghreb, Haiti and Czechoslovakia, written by authors who emigrated to France and North America. Interdisciplinary in scope, this work …
This dissertation analyzes how images of suffering bodies—violated women's bodies in India and starving bodies in Ireland—have been mobilized within competing narratives to define and redefine the British empire, its ideological investments, and modes of anti-colonial resistance…
This thesis examines the lifeworlds of Somali returnees in Ethiopia. Their experience of flight and return is distinctive, shaped by the history and culture of the Somali people and the political and economic conditions of this part of Africa. In emphasizing this distinctiveness…
In the last two decades the study of the Book of Isaiah has revolved around the issue of the unity of Isaiah. Scholars have asked whether it is legitimate to read each part of the Book of Isaiah independently while neglecting the literary relationship between them. Whereas there…
The trend in self-styled post-Holocaust Christian theology has been to adjust doctrine to serve practical ethical agreement and the needs of interreligious dialogue. Such adjustments typically include the development of "low" christologies in an effort to deemphasize the essenti…
This study explores the relationship between Zion and the unnamed servant in Isa 40--55, their respective roles, and how they elucidate the themes of suffering and restoration. The goals of this dissertation are: (1) to investigate the similarities and differences between the se…
This study examines the interaction between the Gospel of Mark's passion narrative (Mark 14–16) and the Psalms of Individual Lament (PssLam) evoked in the Markan passion narrative. First, I argue for the evocation of four PssLam (LXX Psalms 21, 40, 41–42, and 68) in six places i…
This study concerns the constitution of the subjectivities and identities of rural-to-urban migrant women and the ways they re-make urban space in Turkey. Based on fifty life-story interviews conducted in a district of Istanbul (called Esenyurt) during 2001-02, I argue that stor…