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…
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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 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 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 …
The suffering that initially prompts ethical reflection is frequently forgotten in the generalised rational response of much contemporary International Relations theory. This thesis draws on Theodor W. Adorno and Gillian Rose to propose an alternative approach to suffering in wo…
From the personal contemporary pastoral experience of caring for dying people, and with particular attention given to the psychospiritual anguish often associated with the perceived failure of death, I argue that suffering is primarily identified in the modern West as an insult …
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…
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…
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 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 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…
Identification as a community of sufferers has been a key feature of Turkish Cypriot trans-generational discourse since the 1960's. The changes in space and restrictions on mobility brought about by interethnic conflict and traffic accidents are two of the most prominently artic…
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 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 …
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 …