Evangelist William Franklin Graham, Jr. has been a dominant presence in the world since the middle of the twentieth century. His preaching has enjoyed sustained public attention for over fifty years, and has been a model and a standard for multitudes of preachers. How simple ora…
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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of mass media in framing, and thereby changing the dynamic of apologetic discourse. Media have the power to constrain a rhetor's ability to develop an effective defense by influencing audience perceptions of (a) the public …
The thirteenth-century missionary effort of the Order of Preachers to convert Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians has been viewed by scholars as a manifestation of a “persecuting society.” Jeremy Cohen argues that the mendicants, under the direction of Friar Raymond of Peñafo…
This dissertation is a full-scale investigation of Matthew's soteriology embedded in his Gospel from literary-critical and historical-critical perspectives. This dissertation consists of five main chapters. My investigation begins by reconstructing the Sitz im Leben of Matthew a…
This study addresses the problem of the existence of sin and the determination of its source as reflected in texts of the Second Temple period. The study surveys the relevant Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as the works of Philo and (where relevant) Jose…
Feminist theology has become a site of contestation as womanist, mujerista , lesbian, Jewish and other self-named feminist theologies challenge the privilege of white, heterosexual, Christian perspectives. This dissertation argues that postmodern critical tools can assist femini…
This dissertation probes one of the central religious ideas in the Hebrew Bible – the concept of sin – through the most pervasive metaphors used to express the notion in Biblical Hebrew. The approach adopted in this study emerged out of a consideration of perspectives coming out…
The introduction establishes the main purpose of the dissertation as an investigation of the use of debt as a metaphor for sin in the Gospel of Matthew, particularly in the exegesis of the Lord's Prayer (Matt 6:9-15), the teaching on anger (Matt 5:21-26) and the parable of the u…
Ezekiel declares a message of the renewal of the heart and spirit (Ezek 11; 14; 18) that is foundational to the theology of restoration in the Book of Ezekiel. This transformation addressed the external and internal corruptions of God’s people. The restorative promises of Ezekie…
Søren Kierkegaard is an untapped resource for evangelical theologians, and the concept of sin permeates his writing. In this dissertation I look at the entirety of Søren Kierkegaard’s works in order to systematize his doctrine of sin. Upon categorizing Kierkegaard’s doctrine of …
In City of God Augustine refers to the theatre as a “pestilence” on the morals of the Roman people. Further, he devotes a large portion of the third book of the Confessions to outlining his own sinful experiences with the theatre and a Platonic attack on the poetical arts. From …
When sin entered creation through the first Adam (Gen. 3:6) it brought with it the punishment of death and separation from God. However, God reveals in the Old Testament (Jer. 31:31-34; Is. 43:25; Mic. 7:18-19) that there would come a time under a New Covenant where He would rem…
In theory, all that are involved in same-sex practices in Islam based on the common and mainstream interpretation of the story of the people of Lut are treated the same. In reality, however, and in the Arab world today, the penetrated and penetrator are not equally abnormal and …
I applied the Body CodeTM energy healing modality per chiropractic physician Bradley Nelson to 12 couples to investigate if it would work at a distance, at irregular intervals, and without communication during 3 months. I used a pendulum to identify imbalances and sent healing i…
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the Mariology of St. Lawrence of Brindisi in order to show how he applied the psalms to Mary. It will be shown how he found the literal sense of the text important for understanding the mysteries of the faith. His sermons in the Mariale w…
This study examines the contrast between בִּשְׁגָגָה and בְּיָד רָמָה in Num 15:22-31, with the aim of clarifying the definition for both terms in relation to one another. It begins with a survey of the context of the passage and clarifies the methodology to be employed. Chapter 2 covers t…