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Ph.D. Defenses 2023-2024

Domenik Ackerman - Prayer and Memory: What Christian Theology Can Learn from Jewish Practice, Prof. Dr. Ruth Langer, dissertation director

Robert Elliot - The Imago Trinitatis: Towards an Analogy of Interpersonal Mind, Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director

Dunstan Enzor, O.S.B. - The Law is a Shadow: The Anti-Marcionite Tradition of Reading Psalm 118, Prof. Brian Dunkle, S.J., dissertation director

Peter Fay - A Roman Catholic Account of the Flourishing and Virtuous Agency of People with Schizophrenia in the United States, Prof. Stephen J. Pope, dissertation director

Nicholas Hayes-Mota - Practicing the Common Good: Catholic Tradition, Community Organizing, and the Virtues of Democratic Politics, Prof. M. Cathleen Kaveny, dissertation director

Austin J. Foley Holmes - Political Theology in Origen of Alexandria, Prof. David G. Hunter and Prof. Samuel Fern谩ndez, dissertation co-directors

Robin Landrith - The Debt of Love in the Theology of Richard of St. Victor, Prof. Boyd Taylor Coolman, dissertation director

Nozomi (Sophia) Miura, R.S.C.J. - A Journey around the Comma Johanneum: Transmission History and Interpretation of 1 John 5:6-8, Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director

Katie Mahowski Mylroie - Cultivating Insight through Comparing Cycles: How Comparison with the Hindu Kali Tradition Can Enrich the Christian Understanding, of Life, Death, and Resurrection, Prof. Catherine Cornille, dissertation director

Hilary Ogonna Nwainya - Addressing the Need for Recognition: A Fundamental and Constitutive Point of Departure for Catholic Social Ethics, Prof. James F. Keenan, S.J., dissertation director

Laurel Marshall Potter - 鈥淨ue Esta Misa nos Haga So帽ar鈥�: In(ter)culturaci贸n Lit煤rgica y la Recepci贸n Nuestramericana de Sacrosanctum Concilium, Prof. Carlos Mendoza-脕lvarez, O.P., dissertation director

Chanelle Robinson - Entangled Poetics: Womanist and Decolonial Expansions of the Imago Dei, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Dhinakaran Savariyar - A Theological Ethical Framework for Dalit Lifeworld: 鈥楬ope in Justice鈥� as Liberative Praxis in India, Prof. James F. Keenan, S.J., dissertation director

Byron Wratee - Howard Thurman鈥檚 Theological Anthropology: A Mystical Political Response to Anti-Black Violence, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Ph.D. Defenses 2022-2023

Sara-Bernard Hoverstad -听From Religious Cosmology to Environmental Praxis: Empowering Agency for Sustainable Social Change 鈥� Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director

John Carter听-听The Communitarian Conscience: A Theological Response to the Legal Debates about Religious Freedom 鈥� Prof. Cathy Kaveny, dissertation director

Joseph (Joe) Collins -听The Love of Truth and The Truth of Love: Retrieving Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship of Understanding and Love 鈥� Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director

Robert (Zac) Karanovich听-听Conversion in a World of Violence: Toward a Theology of Conversion with Johann Baptist Metz, James Alison, and Thomas Merton 鈥� Prof. Brian Robinette, dissertation director

John Kern -听Charismatic Christ, Charismatic Church: The Development of the Gratia Gratis Data in Thomas Aquinas's Theology in Light of the Summa Halensis 鈥� Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director

Lindsay Marcellus -听Perfecting Ecological Rationality: Acknowledging Sin and the Cardinal Virtue of Humility 鈥� Prof. James Keenan, dissertation director

Emma McDonald -听Forming Agents, Forming Families: Moral Agency in the Context of Procreation 鈥� Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director

Bethany Slater -听Becoming Wholehearted: Constructing a Jewish Liturgical Asceticism 鈥� Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director

Stephen Surh -听Visibile Parlare: An Essay on Dante's Commedia 鈥� Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director

Drew (Andrew) Gertner Belfield 鈥� Foundations of Scholastic Christology in the Summa Halensis 鈥� Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director听

Jonathan Cahill 鈥� Emotions, Moral Formation, and Christian Politics: Rereading Karl Barth 鈥� Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director

Eduardo Gonzales 鈥� Neighboring the Invisible: Liberation Theologies, the Exodus Narrative, and the Specter of Canaan 鈥� Prof. Roberto Goizueta, dissertation director听

Brian Himes 鈥� Max Scheler on Love and Human Dignity: The Wertkern as Resolving the Aporia of Dialogical and Metaphysical Personalism on the Knowledge of Persons 鈥� Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director听

Spencer听(Kyle) Johnson 鈥� Discernment at the Periphery: Race, Coloniality, And the Demonic 鈥� Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director听

Jennifer Lamson-Scribner 鈥� Disorder and Distortion: A Theological Approach to Addiction 鈥� Prof. Stephen Pope, dissertation director听

Christopher McLaughlin 鈥� The Pneumatology of Marius Victorinus: a Rhetorical, Philosophical, and Theological Commentary On Adversus Arium III 鈥� Prof. Brian Dunkle, dissertation director

Xavier Montecel 鈥� Communion in Hope: Liturgy and Ethics in The Key of Virtue 鈥� Prof. Jim Keenan, dissertation director听

Michael VanZandt Collins 鈥� Climate Change, Virtue, and Moral Agency: An Essay in Muslim-Christian Comparative Theological Ethics 鈥� Prof. Catherine Cornille and Prof. Jim Keenan, co-directors

Andrew T. Vink 鈥� Ellacur铆a's Tripartite Salvation: A Historical-Soteriological Response to The Crisis of Neoliberalism 鈥� Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director听

Nathan Wood-House 鈥� Toward an Anti-Racist Political Theology: Reading Johann Baptist Metz and James H. Cone against American Anti-Black Necropolitics 鈥� Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Derek Brown 鈥� Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity 鈥� Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Aimee Hein 鈥� History and Responsibility: An Ecumenical Response to Migration in the United States 鈥� Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director听

Benjamin Hohman 鈥� Grace and Emergence: Towards an Ecological and Evolutionary Foundation for Theology听 鈥� Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director听

Elyse Raby 鈥� Towards an Intercorporeal Body of Christ: A Study in Ecclesial Body Images 鈥� Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director

Jonathan Bailes - Becoming Like God in Christ: Nicene Theology and Christian Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa 鈥� Prof. Khaled Anatolios, dissertation director

Kimberly Bauser McBrien - 鈥溾��remembering what the Savior had said鈥�: Social Memory and the Sayings of Jesus Tradition 鈥� Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director

Jinyong Choi - Analogy, Spirituality and the Beatific Enjoyment of God: Bonaventure and the Doctrine of Likeness 鈥� Prof. Emeritus Stephen Brown, dissertation director

Peter Folan, SJ - Matters of Interpretation: Biblical Methodology in the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue on the Doctrine of Justification 鈥� Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director

Hans Harmakaputra - The Community of Friends of God: Comparative Theology and the Construction of an Inclusive Theology of Saints 鈥� Prof. James Morris, dissertation director

Won-Jae Hur - Corporeality in Contemplation:听 A Comparative Study of Edith Stein and Tibetan Buddhist Lojong 鈥� Prof. John Makransky, dissertation director

Jaisy A. Joseph - Reimagining Catholicity: An Interstitial Perspective 鈥� Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director

L茅ocadie Lushombo, it. - Imagining an Ethics of Political Participation For Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sophialogical Hermeneutic 鈥� Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director

Andrew Massena - Torah for Its own Sake: The Decalogue in Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis 鈥� Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director

Ligita Ryli拧kyt臈, SJE - Cur Deus Cruciatus?: Lonergan鈥檚 Law of听 the Cross and the Transpositions of 鈥淛ustice over Power鈥� 鈥� Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director

Annie Selak - Toward an Ecclesial Vision in the Shadow of Wounds 鈥� Prof. Nancy Pineda Madrid, dissertation director

Marcel Uwineza, S.J. 鈥� Reconciling Memories: A Theology from a Place of Wounds: No Authentic Theology with my Back Turned to Nyamata 鈥� Prof Emerita M. Shawn Copeland, dissertation director

Daniel Vos 鈥� Some of the Other Works of the Torah: Boundaries and Inheritance as Legal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Hellenistic Jewish Literature 鈥� Prof. David Vanderhooft, dissertation director

Robert J. Brodrick听鈥� Charismatic and Pastoral Power: A Foucauldian Analysis of the CDF Investigation of Leonardo Boff 鈥� Richard Gaillardetz

David Clint Burnett听鈥� Psalm 110:1 In Confessional Material In听Corpus Paulinum: Cultural and Religious Context 鈥� Pheme Perkins

Ryan Duns听鈥� Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age? William Desmond鈥檚 Theological Achievement 鈥� Brian Robinette

Charles Thomas Fraatz听鈥� Blessed Is the One Who Reads and Those Who Hear the Words of Prophecy: Rome and Revelation鈥檚 Use of Scripture 鈥� Pheme Perkins

David Kwon听鈥� A Study of the Role of听Jus Post Bellum听in the 21st Century: Human Security and Political Reconciliation 鈥� Kenneth Himes, O.F.M.

Katherine Jackson-Meyer听鈥� Tragic Dilemmas and Virtue A Christian Feminist View 鈥� Lisa Cahill

Samuel Keyes听鈥� Here for Medicine, There for Delight: The Ecclesial Mysteries of the Victorine听Speculum听鈥� Boyd Taylor Coolman

Joseph Mben听鈥� Empowering Disempowered Working Women: A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics 鈥� Lisa Sowle Cahill

Megan McCabe听鈥� Sex, Power, and Violence on the College Campus: Rape Culture and Complicity in Evil 鈥� James Keenan, SJ

Ty Monroe听鈥� The Development of Augustine's Early Soteriology 鈥� Boyd Taylor Coolman

Kate Mroz听鈥� No Salvation Apart from Religious Others: Edward Schillebeeckx's Soteriology as a Resource for Understanding Christian Identity and Discipleship in a Religiously Pluralist World 鈥� Mary Ann Hinsdale

Teva Regule听鈥� Identity, Formation, Transformation: The Liturgical Movement of the 20th Century and the Liturgical Reform Efforts of New Skete Monastery 鈥� John Baldovin, SJ

Jennifer Sanders听鈥� The Trinitarian听Telos听of the听Summa theologiae: Thomas鈥檚 Application of the Aristotelian听Ordo Disciplinae to Sacra Doctrina听in light of his Augustinian Heritage 鈥� Dominic Doyle

Clifton Stringer听鈥� Becoming One in the Paschal Mystery: Christ, Spirituality, and Theology in Hugh of St. Victor 鈥� Boyd Taylor Coolman

Veronica Tierney听鈥� For Us and For Our Salvation: Revelation and Imitation in Cyril of Alexandria 鈥� Douglass Finn

Katherine Wrisley Shelby听鈥� The听Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure's Theology of Grace 鈥� Stephen Brown

Michael Cagney听鈥� 鈥淭he Problem of Big Food and the Response of an Integrated Catholic Ecological Ethic鈥�

Timothy J. Carey听鈥� 鈥淩emove the Harm, Lord of Men, and Give Healing鈥�: Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya鈥�

Jessica Coblentz听鈥� 鈥淒epression鈥檚 Challenge to Theologies of Suffering and Salvation鈥�

Nicholas P. DiSalvatore听鈥� 鈥淭he Notion of Faith in the Early Latin Theology of Bernard Lonergan鈥�

James Daryn Henry听鈥� 鈥淭he Freedom of God: A Study in the Pneumatology of Robert Jenson鈥�

Daniel P. Horan, OFM.听鈥� 鈥淚magining Planetarity: Toward a Postcolonial Franciscan Theology of Creation鈥�

Joel B. Kemp听鈥� 鈥淎 Case for Identity: The Book of Ezekiel, Juridical Diction, and Judahite Identity鈥�

Nathaniel N. L. Peters听鈥� 鈥淭he Trinitarian Dimensions of Cistercian Eucharistic Theology鈥�

John R. Barker, OFM听鈥� Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai

Stephanie Corigliano听鈥� Towards a Hermeneutic of Yoga in Modern Times: A Comparative Study of Practice and Detachment in Hinduism and Christianity

Maria Angela Socorro S. Cruz听鈥� Prophets Likewise: An Exploration of the Prophetic Office of the Laity as an Expression of the听Sensus Fidelium

Marianne Tierney Fitzgerald听鈥� Theology and Activism in Latin America: A Reflection on Jon Sobrino鈥檚 Christology of the Resurrection and Grassroots Organizations Protesting Gender-Based Violence

Nichole Flores听鈥� Guadalupe in the Public Square: Religious Aesthetics and the Pursuit of Justice

Christopher D. Jones听鈥� 鈥淭he Midday Demon': A Moral, Theological, and Biopsychosocial Analysis of Acedia鈥�

Monica Jalandoni Nalupta听鈥� Filipino Fortitude

James O鈥橲ullivan听鈥� Development as Human Rights: An Examination of Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Development

Cristina Richie听鈥� Moving Environmental Bioethics into the 21st Century: Green Bioethics and the Common Good

Kate Ward听鈥� Wealth, Poverty and Economic Inequality: A Christian Virtue Response

Stanislaus Subba Reddy Alla, 鈥淐are and Access: Catholic and Hindu Approaches to Ethics in Healthcare鈥�

Anthony P. Coleman, 鈥淟actantius and the Doctrine of Providence鈥�

Christopher R. Conway, 鈥淟iberative Service: A Comparative Theological Reflection on Dalit Theology's Service and Swami Vivekananda's Seva鈥�

Jeremy V. Cruz, 鈥淪ocial Equality in Recent Catholic Social Thought: Toward an Ethic of Global Social Equality鈥�

John P. Edwards, 鈥淒eveloping a 鈥砊heology in the Order of Discovery鈥�: The Method and Contribution of James Alison鈥�

Conor M. Kelly, 鈥淪ervice And Justice, Peace and Solidarity: Theology And Ethics For Work And Leisure鈥�

Nicole L. Reibe, 鈥淧reaching Participation: The Theology Of Achard Of St. Victor鈥�

Robert J. Rivera, 鈥淎 Christology of Liberation in an Age of Globalization and Exclusion: The Contributions of Jon Sobrino and Edward Schillebeeckx鈥�

Andrew B. Salzmann, 鈥淭he Holy Spirit And The Life Of The Christian According To Hugh Of St. Victor:听Dator Et Donum,听Cordis Omne Bonum鈥�

Brian Traska, 鈥淧hilosophy as Faith Seeking Understanding An Interpretation of Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 1972 Lectures on Philosophy of God and Systematic Theology鈥�

Jennifer S. Wade, 鈥淩esisting Violence through the Meditative Body: A Theological Anthropology of Transformational Anger in Judith Butler and听The Revelations of Divine Love鈥�

Glenn Willis, 鈥淒rive All Blames into One: Rhetorics of 'Self-Blame' and Refuge in Tibetan Buddhist听Lojong, Nietzsche, and the Desert Fathers鈥�

Thomas F. Burke, 鈥淪elf 鈥揈mptying Love: Kenosis, Sacraments and the Church,鈥� directed by Frederick Lawrence

Benjamin Durheim, 鈥淐hrist鈥檚 Gift, Our Response: Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics,鈥� directed by John Baldovin, S.J.

Katie Grimes, 鈥淐hrist Divided: White Supremacy as a Corporate Vice in the Body of Christ,鈥� directed by James Keenan, S.J.

Michael Jaycox, 鈥淩ighteous Anger and Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Anger in Service to Justice,鈥� directed by James Keenan, S.J.

Matthew Kruger, 鈥淭he Freedom of the Mind for God: Reflexivity and Spiritual Exercises in Thomas Aquinas,鈥� directed by Stephen Brown

Emma O鈥橠onnell, 鈥淭he Liturgical Transformation of Time: Memory and Eschatological Anticipation in Christian and Jewish Liturgy,鈥� directed by John Baldovin, S.J.

Erik John Ranstrom, 鈥淭he Unknown Body of Christ: Towards a Retrieval of the Early Panikkar鈥檚 Christology of Religions,鈥� directed by Catherine Cornille

Katherine Richman, "Salvation in "Catholic Boston":听 Father Leonard Feeney and Saint Benedict Center, 1941- 1949" directed by Thomas Wangler

Autumn Alcott Ridenour, 鈥淯nion With Christ for the Aging: A consideration of Aging and Death in the Theology of St. Augustine and Karl Barth,鈥� directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Raymond Ward, 鈥淐ollectives in Christian Ethics: A Study of Reinhold Niebuhr and Jacques Maritain,鈥� directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Kevin Ahern, "Structures of Grace: Catholic Nongovernmental Organizations and the Mission of the Church," directed by David Hollenbach

Hoa Trung Dinh, SJ, "Theological Medical Ethics: A Virtue-base Approach," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Walter Hannam, "The听Ineutabile听of Honorius Augustodunensis: A Study in the textures of early Twelfth-Century Augustinianisms," directed by Stephen Brown

Jill O'Brien, "Images of God, Roles of Humanity, and Ecological Ramifications: Hope and Realism in the Renewal of Creation," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Steve Okey, "The Plural and Ambiguous Self: The Theological Anthropology of David Tracy," directed by Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM

Jeremy Sabella, "The Politics of Original Sin: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and its Cold War Realist," directed by Michael Himes

Rene Sanchez, "Agapic Solidarity: Practicing the Love Command in a Globalized Reality," directed by Roberto Goizueta