In this dissertation, A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Angel Ebony, I courageously excavate the literary art of texts written about Samuel Morris through a …
Today, most Holocaust survivors are over the age of 70. Conversations about the Holocaust will soon be limited to interpretations of texts. As the events of the Holocaust recede in time, the more prominent its memorials become in telling the story. As a particularly Jewish exper…
Building upon the important work of Roberto Alejandro (1993), this study pursues a hermeneutic and dialogic conception of the public sphere, a phenomenology of the public sphere, and rejects liberal conceptions of civil society grounded in a principally conservative narrative in…
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 …
The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomena of play by exploring kindergarten teachers’ perceptions of play, specifically investigating teachers’ perspectives on the importance of play, the role of the educator in play, and the changing face of play in response to evo…
Genealogy and family history have reemerged as a popular interest in the West and its diaspora, fueled in part by the mediatized and commodified portrayal of family history and genetic ancestry as an integral pursuit of self-discovery, and by the accessibility of online genealog…
What is the ancestral shadow, and how can an imaginal exploration help an individual to heal and integrate the shadow of multiple generations? Drawing on Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow, the ancestral shadow is explored in this thesis as being a part of the unconscious that hol…
This study contextualizes, delineates, and analyzes the hermeneutic of W.A. Criswell, a leading influence and charismatic personality of the Southern Baptist Convention in the latter twentieth century. Since he never published a hermeneutical treatise, this study collates and sy…