Our thesis begins surveying the recent history of Luke’s use of the Old Testament in recent critical study. It seeks to define the issues that still need treatment within Lucan redactional studies and the Lucan use of the Old Testament. We limited ourselves to the Lucan use of t…
"46" Result
Sort By:
This thesis addresses the question of how the exalted Jesus relates to the God of Israel in Paul's theology, and the function of Jesus' subordination within that relationship. In approaching christology, scholars frequently turn to analogies that can shed light on the portrayal …
This dissertation pursues the interaction of the theological interpretation of Scripture, analytic theology, and contextual theology, grounded in the principles of canonicity, catholicity, contextuality, and conceptuality. It brings all these approaches to bear on the practice o…
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 work examines the theological and Christological pronouncements in the Qur’ān in order to identify the Christian theological beliefs that are being addressed from among the wide spectrum of orthodox and heterodox theological constructions about God and Christ appearing in h…
Building on recent scholarship in (a) theological retrieval of the Christian tradition, and (b) Protestant developments in theological aesthetics, this project is concerned with the exploration and development of soteriology’s aesthetic dimension. Specifically, it examines the r…
Jesus' teachings and actions enacted shalom-making principles and denounced shalom-breaking systems that sustain the city's economic, social, and cultural structures of power and oppression. He showed how Shalom works –he favored the poor, the weak, the oppressed, the outcast, a…
This thesis seeks an orderly set of theological reflections on the declaration that “God is light” (1 Jn. 1:5). Such talk of divine light, this study argues, must begin with the doctrine of God, namely, with God's light in se and his “shining forth” ad extra towards creatures in…
The Scottish Reformed theologian, Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913–2007), once claimed that no topic in theology is more relevant for our contemporary world than theological anthropology. Despite this claim, T. F. Torrance’s literary corpus lacks a sustained focus on the topic. Tho…
The concept of faith is important in studying the book of Hebrews because it functions as the "organizing thread" which connects together various themes, such as Christ's sonship and high priesthood, apostasy, Sabbath rest, eschatology, etc. Although many scholars agree in essen…
Just war or pacifism? The just war tradition has enjoyed a near monopoly within the Christian moral tradition. However, in recent decades pacifism has emerged as a serious contender within the Christian moral tradition. Both of these traditions cannot be right, but how do we cho…
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 dissertation contributes to contemporary scholarship on the historical and theological significance of Christian iconodulia—the appropriate veneration of holy persons, places, and things. By accentuating the economic aspect of the Byzantine image debates it illustrates how …
This thesis observes John Calvin’s understanding of the mediatorial office of Jesus Christ, and the mediation theologies of Isaac Ambrose, Thomas Goodwin, John Owen, Francis Turretin, Jonathan Edwards, and Abraham Kuyper. It is an attempt to present a case that the mediatorship …
To say that the first Gospel is about Jesus is to state what any reader knows from the most cursory glance at Matthew's narrative. Yet the scholarly discourse about Jesus' identity in Matthew reveals a fundamental confusion about how to articulate the identity of Jesus vis-à-vis…
The purpose of this dissertation was to argue that the crisis of Jewish Christians in Rome has correlation with the Christology which is developed in Hebrews. Through a critical reading, three observations were made about the community of Hebrews. Despite an alternate view regar…
This Ph.D. dissertation is the first English examination of the life and writings of Erich Sauer and his relationship to American Dispensationalism. The first chapter introduces the subject matter and its importance. The purpose and methodological limits for the dissertation are…
The Sabbath as the central commandment of the Law relates all of Judaism to God, to creation, to redemption, and to the final fulfillment of the promises in the eternal Sabbath of the end-time. However, early in the inception of Christianity, Sunday replaced the Sabbath as the d…
This dissertation accomplishes three things. First, it identifies the literary and rhetorical devices that the author of Hebrews uses to construct his characterization of Jesus. Second, it reconstructs the portrait that emerges from the author's characterization of Jesus. Third,…