Despite the vast research on Moriscos, Spanish Muslims who were forced to convert to Catholicism beginning in the 16th century, little is known about their writings that emerged in underground Muslim societies in spite of the Spanish Inquisition's scrutiny and burning sites. The…
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This dissertation explores the way that Heb 12:1-3 uses a narrative world to instill vision in order to reorient readers who are in a crisis of faith. The first chapter explores the exhortation in Heb 12:1-3 as key to understanding how the writer seeks to reinterpret readers' st…
The Baha'i Faith is a religion that arose in the Islamic milieu of mid nineteenth century Iran and entered the United States in 1894, after its basic teachings had been defined and the writings of its prophet had been completed. The number of American Baha'is quickly rose to abo…
The life of Yishaq Arama (c.1420–1494) coincided with the last years of Spanish Jewry. Arama is primarily known for his baroque-like commentary to the Torah, Aqedet Yishaq, which uses a sermonic format to discuss both philosophical and textual issues. A short, polemical work, Ha…
The purpose of the dissertation was to conduct a rhetorical analysis of the Book of Malachi in order to identify and interpret the persuasive strategy by which the prophet addressed his audience with implications for elucidating the central theme of the prophetic discourse. The …
This Project Demonstrating Excellence (PDE) is an anthology of miracles. The introduction gives an overview of the miracles that were worked by Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed, the respective leaders of Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. The (PDE) seeks to answer the following quest…
This thesis is a transcription, translation, and annotation of a previously unpublished medieval Hebrew polemic, Machazik Emunah. In this text, the thirteenth century southern French rabbi, Mordechai ben Joseph, defends doctrines of Judaism against opposing Christian claims. The…
The particularity and concrete determinacy of Christian confession of faith In Jesus Christ necessarily comes at the cost of a certain inevitable sacrifice with regard to an ethical relation to Jews and Judaism—an irreducible theological dissonance, or conflictual difference, in…
This dissertation paints a picture of the Christian life as it flows out of the covenant relationship which God has established with his people through his Word, the dbr-YHWH, spoken initially and prophetically to Israel, and with finality in the incarnation of the dbr-YHWH, Jes…
This dissertation considers the significance of doctrinal disputes in the mid-fifth century by examining social relations among their participants. It focuses on the “Antiochene” coalition of Syrian clerics which surrounded Theodoret of Cyrrhus and formed the Dyophysite side of …
Does liberalism necessitate a strict separation of religion and state? Or are there some ways in which religion may play a role in constituting a liberal state? Steering clear of a tendency among some political theorists to insulate questions of justification from a rigorous eng…
It is currently my intention to produce a thesis arguing that faith systems can influence an individual's performance on the battlefield. This will be accomplished by first examining the religious and social climate of Europe during the first century C.E. as it relates to the ju…
Healing and promoting spiritual growth is a critical element of pastoral care among terminal cancer patients. Assisting patients in managing their terminal illness is an important challenge to chaplains. Facilitation of a sense of healing is not only physical but also spiritual.…
In this thesis, The Anthropology of Faith following Romans 1-3, I set out to explore the concept of faith in the Christian tradition from an anthropological perspective. An introduction offers a brief historical overview leading to the difficulties which understanding faith pose…
This dissertation argues that thick faith transforms character because it demands an embodied leap into an alternative narrative world. Illustrated with interviews of converts to Islam, Nation of Islam, and Christianity who were once extremely violent and destructive, it argues …
The early modern period is often associated with the emergence of the autonomous subject and the Protestant triumph of inner faith over outer forms. This dissertation complicates such a trajectory by considering how England's increased contact with Muslim “Turks” around the turn…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary critical study of the way mestizaje was proposed as a theological category by U.S. Latina/o theologians. I trace the subversive and innovative ways in which these theologians appropriated the condition of biological and cultural intermix…
This thesis analyzes the development contributions of Faith-Based Organizations and their connections (if any) to religiously-based terrorist organizations. In association with the 'War on Terror', a Western policy of non-negotiation is being aggressively used to quell the use o…
This study explored the inter-relatedness among identity, faith, trauma and loss, and re-negotiating self-understanding in a new geographical location. Seven Christian women from the Oromo cultural group of Ethiopia were interviewed. The taped interviews were transcribed and ana…