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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…

This dissertation examines the redemptive theology of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (c.347–407), using his homilies on the Pauline epistles. Of the fourteen letters of which Chrysostom attributed to Paul, the three most significant letters for discussion of Christ's …

This thesis theorises an approach to cinematic suspense derived from a set of films that challenge the teleological and redemptive principles of traditional narrative. It is argued that such a challenge is drawn from the need to account for conditions of violence and suffering w…

Experience is always seen through embodied eyes. Through a clarified way of seeing called, Anmerkungen or “afterwords”, poetry takes note of the truth inherent to subjectivity as reflected in language. These afterwords challenge the reality of “not yet” [ nocht nichts] seeing fr…

In the last twenty years, recent scholarship has opened up fresh inquiry into several aspects of New Orleans society during the late nineteenth century. Much work has been done to reassess the political and cultural involvement, as well as perspective of, the black Creoles of th…

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 …

Shortly before his death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made what amounts to a mission statement for his literary endeavors under the title "Ein Versuch der Restitution. (An Attempt at Restitution). In this brief address, Sebald maintains that his work can be seen as an attempt to make am…

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 …

Both Augustine of Hippo and Maximus the Confessor would agree that when God created Adam, he had a plan—a plan that would have allowed Adam, over time, to live into the fullness of his being, true being. Adam, being created in the image and likeness of God, had the potential for…

This dissertation was written to discover the views of salvation of two of the Apostolic Fathers, i.e. Barnabas and Clement of Rome. It required philological, linguistic and exegetical work. The political and social context within which each writer wrote, as well as the intellec…